I’ve been talking for several years now about writing a book. I should stop talking and start writing. It’s going to be about country newspapers. I’ll create a fictional town and a fictional masthead. I haven’t figured out the plot or theme yet, but the book will be humorous. I’m going to start writing down [...]
Challenging the Santa myth
I received several calls today about our “street sweeper” question in the paper. This is a daily vox pop where we ask people to comment briefly on a topical issue. The controversial question was: “Should young children be led to believe in Santa?” I had more complaints about that than anything else in the past [...]
Quirky animal stories
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 [...]
Fairfax and Brian McCarthy
December 6, 2008 at 6:42 pm
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.
West Coast Sentinel
My first appointment as editor was at the West Coast Sentinel in March 1992. The Sentinel is based at Ceduna and circulates across the Eyre Peninsula and the Nullarbor. I returned home to Maffra from a four-month overseas trip in January 1991 to discover that recession had combined with drought to produce a rural downturn. [...]
