Monday, May 30, 2005
BBC SEEKS PRIVATE FUNDING
The BBC’s Michael Peschardt, desperate to fund his creepy employer, pursues The Bulletin’s Tasmanian Tiger prize:
The bush is thick. It is hard to catch your step. The towering canopy of the eucalyptus trees blots out all but the faintest glow of moonlight.
I have come on this expedition to join Col Bailey and a group of friends on a tiger hunt ...
Australia’s leading news magazine, The Bulletin, is offering a $1m reward to anyone who can photograph a tiger and prove that the species still survives.
Not sure if the lawyers left it in, but my early draft of the prize rules specifically excluded “stumble-footed night-blind Englishmen” from those eligible for the reward. An earlier draft, which I’m aware was rejected, even promised “a beating sound and true” for any claimants so described. Stop hunting our land-beasts, BBC man!