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Fairfax, publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age, would appreciate your advice:
Fairfax’s new chief operating officer Brian Evans has given his management team until next Thursday to come up with ways to save the publisher $100 million.
I doubt that Leunig actually has a desk at the Age office: if not, give him one, then give him ten minutes to clear it. Have him frogmarched off the premises by two balaclava’ed heavies.
OT - Andrew McGahan, today’s winner of the Miles Franklin award (Top oz literary award) did not disappoint his ABC listeners with the following bit of lefty boilerplate:
I think Australia is on the verge of something very dark socially and politically, and in response to that there has to be, and there always is in times of social oppression if you want to call it that, the arts always flourished under that oppression and react against it in outrage and protest.Funny how it’s this same oppressive government that is paying Mr. McGahan to write his novels.
The primary use I make of newspapers nowadays is to start my fireplace, and to cover the floor of my pet’s cage.
Perhaps Farifax could command a higher price if they simply sold their papers directly as either of the above products. Also, they could cut down on production costs by not bothering to actually print anything on the pages.
Posted by Carl in N.H. on 2005 06 23 at 11:50 PM • permalinkDitching ‘webdairy’ would save 50k a year straight up. (said in French accent)I know it’s not much but… hey! F&%k You!
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 06 23 at 11:51 PM • permalink1. Sack moonbat “journalists” as listed above.
2. Install Page 3 girl, (with option of MORE page 3 girls on pages 5, 7, 9 etc)
3. Feature stories about V8 supercars and the private lives of either English royals or Big Brother inmates.
4. Full colour advertisements for massage parlours.
5. Sack any employee who doesn’t brown bag their lunch.
6. Conduct competitions with a pig hunting safari in North Queensland as the prize.
7. Employ a Catholic Archbishop to write a weekly column about horse racing with Saturday tips included.
8. Page 1 banner daily with the cheapest petrol and beer prices in town.
9. 32 pages of football stories, (and none of that soccer nonsense, BTW)
10. Hire Tim Blair as senior editor/ slavemaster.Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 06 24 at 12:35 AM • permalinkI sent the editor a letter a while back telling them that by pandering to bitter inner city chardonnay socialists they had made the same mistake that Labor had made in the last election (ie, there aren’t enough of them to get elected and/or support a ‘newspaper’).
I can’t believe they didn’t take my advice…or publish my letter for that matter.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 06 24 at 03:41 AM • permalinkIts been said before and will be said again - start writing for the market rather than to impress their lefty mates.
Its a tough choice, write for a job and keep getting paid, or write the sub hobbyist level crud they have been writing, and have to fund it themselves.
The agony of choice…
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2005 06 24 at 03:50 AM • permalinkBy the way Pedro, I think I’d get Bob Hawke to write the racing tips. It’s one area where he’s expert(and about all the old duffer’s good for) - unlike today’s open letter to Peter Costello in The Australian, which is full of the usual BS about how great the Labor Party was/will be. Quite generous of Murdoch to publish it really - the sort of magnanimity you won’t find in the Fairfax papers.
Close The Age, and The SMH. That outta do it.
Posted by swassociates on 2005 06 24 at 09:50 AM • permalinkI wouldn’t like to see the Age etal go under because it would be preferable to have aternative media sources, so rather than thinking how to cut $100 million they should think about how to make that much. For starters - get rid of Leunig. Too much moral equivalence with head-choppers. They need to get people with differing views that also have a concept of reality..Oh geez, that would mean getting rid of Andrew Jaspan
Due to the market failure of Australisn customers to buy these wonderderful examples of balanced journalism, should we not extend the principle that funds the ABC etc. to newspapers?
Rob, that is frightening. Please keep those kind of thoughts to yourself. Oh, I forgot, Fairfax people are prohibited from accessing timblair.net aren’t they?Since the “journalists in Iraq” are basically huddled down in a hotel in Iraq (does that make them any better placed to get the news than Andrew Bolt?), just keep them in Australia.
Better yet, just fire the whole lot and make up the news. Would it be any worse than what they’re printing now?
Posted by wronwright on 2005 06 24 at 02:02 PM • permalinkDare Zarqawi to “land” a plane on the building?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 24 at 07:54 PM • permalink
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