Random thoughts and observations
Newspaper photographers are a dying species. The Guardian explains why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers.
It mentions The Independent in England, the Daily Mirror and regional UK publisher Archant.
Newspaper photographers are in retreat. Staff jobs are vanishing as publishers look for new ways to cut costs.
I’m slow catching up with the local news, but this extraordinary article from the Weekly Times Messenger caught my eye: “Charles Sturt Council has asked media representatives to sit on opposite sides of the chamber’s gallery in each meeting in order to get a different perspective of the debate. The council’s staff approached a Weekly Times Messenger Reporter last week and asked her to stop sitting on the same side of the chamber each meeting.
I somehow found myself watching some old advertisements on YouTube tonight. This one shows former Australian cricket captain Allan Border enjoying a XXXX beer while Queensland teammates seek to join him. Two of the teammates I know are Greg Ritchie and Jeff Thomson, while the third might possibly be Ray Phillips. I’ve posted some other [...]
I mentioned yesterday there have been two larger-than-life stories in the news this week. One concerned the rugby league salary cap scandal; the other involved Western Australia’s (former) Treasurer Troy Buswell and his affair with Greens MP Adele Carles. I don’t need to comment on the Buswell affair. The facts are clear and the public [...]
Sometimes the news of the day is just so extraordinary you wonder if it isn’t fiction instead. A series of facts collide like a train wreck to produce a story that crashes through the public consciousness. Two such stories have gripped Australia in the past week. The Melbourne Storm rugby league salary cap rort is [...]
