I subbed eight pages at work today, which is the most I’ve done at the Kalgoorlie Miner. There’s nothing extraordinary about that, just it’s unusual for the editor of a daily paper to be so hands on.
At Myrtleford (a weekly) for example, I used to layout a +24-page paper by myself, subbing as many as 16 pages in a day.
A few interesting items that caught my attention today:
- Violence associated with elections in Switzerland. I always thought they were such calm people.
- New Zealand players brought to tears after losing to France at the Rugby World Cup.
- Labor is not being sucked in by Howard over the African refugees or Tasmanian pulp mill.
- Animal welfare is a touchy issue in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
- Coolgardie may bid for the 2012 world gold panning championships.
Here’s a little more on the Swiss elections:
Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey has condemned the violence that erupted when extremists attacked a pre-election rally by the rightwing Swiss People’s Party.
Critics accused police of failing to stop the militants while others pointed out that the party of the controversial justice minister, Christoph Blocher, had been stoking tensions with its hardline policies.
“I’m saddened by the images of violence,” Calmy-Rey said. “A few hundred extremists can’t endanger our democracy,” she told the SonntagsBlick newspaper.
