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REPORTING FROM INONESSIA, AND OTHER FOREIGN JOINTS
Highlights from The Age’s biographies of its attractive foreign correspondents, beginning with Matthew Moore:
Three terrorist bombings and a tsunami have shown him and the paper that Inonessia retains an infinite capacity to surprise, and that editors make predictions at their peril.
Prediction: whoever wrote Deborah Cameron’s biography might one day learn something about commas:
During more than 25 years in journalism, Deborah has lived in New York, Indonesia and now, Tokyo, where she became the first woman to hold the job of Japan correspondent.
This is not her first, first.
And, now, speaking, of, learning, here’s Ed O’Loughlin:
Born in Toronto in 1966, he was instructed in the liberal arts in Trinity College Dublin, which also learned him how to be a gentleman.
Hamish McDonald is …
… essentially an unsociable creature and not a team player - best left out on his own in some alien location.
He is the author of several books that made him disliked by the powerful.
“Suharto’s Indonesia” explained how the former Indonesian military ruler’s tortured upbringing made him incapable of reining in his famility’s corrupt dealings …
“Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra” (written with Desmond Ball) laid bare the weazel-worded policy of successive Australian government on Timor.
He started at The Age as a cadet in 1986, after co-editing the Melbourne University newspaper and enjoying himself so much he realised he was unfit for anything else but journalism.
And Michael Gawenda:
Then one day, out of the blue, the American editors of TIME asked him to edit the local edition of the magazine. Gawenda was dumbfounded. He says he can’t recall now why he agreed to take the job. He says he enjoyed it, but missed the freedom of the reporting life.
He even entertained the idea of becoming a senior editor for TIME and moving permanently to New York when that was offered him, but in the end, he says he wanted to be an Australian journalist working for Australian papers.
So he ended up editing The Age for seven years. He says he doesn’t know how this happened either! He enjoyed that too, but missed the reporting life. Now he’s back doing what was always his first love in journalism. He says he’s a lucky man!
Well, he was, until an excitable! 14-year-old! wrote his biography! For The Age!
(Via reader Pete B.)
I hpoe Trinity College learned him real good…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 02 at 04:19 PM • permalinkAny country which goes easy on terrorist leaders while being tough with seemingly innocent young lady beauticians should be treated with disdain, and mis-spelling their nation’s name is a start.
How about Indomessier, Hindernesia, or That Bunch Of Creeps Taking Over Adjacent Islands Without Due Cause.Is it just me, or do most of these people sound like the ones the papers of old would send off to drink themselves to death in Kuala Lumpur…?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 02 at 09:49 PM • permalinkMaybe Inonessia is what the Arab and Muslim countries call the country everyone else calls Indonesia. When they heard on the news that Indonesia was hit by a tsunami and thousands were killed and appeals were being made for all nations to pledge billions and send badly needed aid, they probably thought Indonesia was just a state in Australia or the US.
So basically they just pledged a few bags of rice and some boxes of old dates that even Saddam wouldn’t buy with the Oil for Palaces proceeds. It really wasn’t because they’re a bunch of no good hypocritical layabouts like Richard McEnroe and the Real Jeff S have been telling us.
It was just a spelling mistake.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 02 at 10:08 PM • permalinkThe mainstream media is in capable paws.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 04 03 at 12:38 AM • permalinkTell Jim Treacher, now we know where Puce got a job, after he left Clook County.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 04 03 at 03:03 AM • permalinkIoxymoron — I think you meant culpable hands.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 03 at 11:48 AM • permalinkSometimes I think you make this stuff up. I know you don’t but I’d feel better if this kind of thing wasn’t true. Even if they could spell Indonesia, the sentence suggesting it takes 3 terrorist bombings and a tsunami to show a journalist that a country of 220 million people retains an infinite capacity to suprise is just about the saddest one I’ve ever read.
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Inonessia was the Loch Ness Monster Tsunami. Talk about unpreparedness.