Random thoughts and observations
The Mount Gambier commercial radio station 5SE does a promotional segment called “The Local You Know” and I was invited to participate. The announcer has a list of about 30 questions which he asks the sucker interviewee to give impulse answers to. I’m fairly cautious and probably didn’t let fly like a commercial radio guy [...]
I was surprised the Australian Press Council upheld a complaint against the Sunday Age for obtaining information from a source without informed consent. The girl was drunk when she spoke to the newspaper, which is what the story was about. I remember reading it. The story was on “ladettes” … young women who drink a [...]
People like quirky animal stories and we had two in the newspaper today. One was about a dairy farming family who placed a death notice in the paper for their 23-year-old Holstein cow. This wasn’t any run-of-the-mill bovine; the cow was a star of screen and stage. “She was a rapping Red Nose cow for [...]
I don’t like to double post. Anyone who is interested in my views on Brian McCarthy’s likely succession as Fairfax chief executive can visit here.
A local businessman told me today the paper is too negative. “You have a responsibility to be positive about the town,” he said. I respect the man and he expressed a commonly held view, so I don’t deride it. As an editor, it has always been my philosophy to choose a good positive story over [...]
