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“He was treated well,” said Age editor Andrew Jaspan of Douglas Wood, held captive for 47 days. In fact, a lack of treatment during that period for diabetes and glaucoma has caused Wood to lose most of his eyesight. A request for an apology from Jaspan would probably be ... insensitive.
”...treated well...”
Just like those pesky Jews were in Dachau right Andrew?
Sheesh...talk about ungrateful.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2005 08 11 at 10:02 PM • permalinkDamn! I’m sorry to hear Mr. Wood has lost most of his eyesight.
I seriously doubt Jaspan or his followers will apologize.....the jerks are more likely to be celebrating Mr. Wood’s permanent partial blindness, since he won’t be able to return to Iraq to continue his reconstruction work.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 12 at 12:42 AM • permalinkLet’s not forget that The Age ran a feature article smearing Douglas Wood as a get-rich-quick business cheat shortly after Andrew Jaspan made his comments.
The whole newspaper is a slime-sheet.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 08 12 at 01:57 AM • permalinkhee hee The Age’s policy of offending 52% of the public on a daily basis eg via Leunig and the Letters page, is not working commercially:
6 months to June 30, weekday circulation down 2.5%, Saturday down 2.2%. (SMH down 2.9% and 3.5% (wow!) respectively. Sunday Age up 2.8%.
Figures via AFR p26.
Age reported the data p2 through clenched teeth, saying the 2.5% decline was “following a period of strong growth.”
(But Fairfax C0O Brian Evans said in the AFR that “the rate of decline has slowed at the SMH and The Age” - he may have been referring only to the Saturday editions).
At The Age, Fairfax Victoria MD Don Churchill blamed the Sat decline, in a Delphic way, on a ‘soft real estate and strong white-collar employment market reduc(ing) casual sales.’
He blamed some of the weekday decline on a ‘price increase for education sales’ cutting weekday subscriptions.
A tip for other Leunig despisers who still need to read The Age—get your student son or daughter to subscribe and leave it lying around for you to read. You will save $$ hundreds a year.
Of course, The Age can never run any story involving numbers without cocking it up. Its story says and/or implies the data is for the TWELVE months to June.They fed a diabetic bread and water???
Excuse me? That’s “treated well”????
Why didn’t they just dump a couple of teaspoons of sugar into his water? It would have had the same effect. Bread and other grains are among the things diabetics have to take in small measure because of starch’s nasty tendency to convert to sugar when metabolised. Never mind that he didn’t get his medications… and should never have been kidnapped in the first place! There is nothing about being abducted that can be described as being “treated well”.
Posted by mamapajamas on 2005 08 12 at 03:39 AM • permalinkwas just phone surveyed by the Ages marketing company. had great pleasure in telling them the moon bat editor and hopeless bias was the main reason i had stopped buying it.
Posted by Astonished on 2005 08 12 at 04:54 AM • permalinkI hope that traitorous piece of s@#% Jaspan feels reeeeeeeal good about himself.
Posted by Steve Edwards on 2005 08 12 at 05:08 AM • permalinkOh, yeah, don’t forget that other sensitive fellow Glenn Condell…
Posted by Steve Edwards on 2005 08 12 at 05:11 AM • permalinkI used to read the Aged regularly, but its pages are too big, and it seems to have far fewer pages than it did before.
Add to that, it costs $1.20 to buy as opposed to $1 for the HeraldSun. The Hun comes with BoltA, at least.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 08 12 at 06:48 AM • permalinkJust like sbs for special people offending cricket watchers en masse with twisted nasty warped neurotic little promos.
I would guess most cricket watchers would reqire a street directory and a magnifying glass to even locate sbs.
Cricket watchers not being especially precious.
Clinton on news supporting dubya on troops in Iraq --TWO SENTENCES.
O.T. Jones and flintoff out.Dizzy has a wicket and Warne.To raise an obvious problem with the
Age editor’s remark,
isn’t it intrinsically an act
of maltreatment to kidnap and imprison a
civilian in the first place? Or is Jaspan trying to be strategic, imagining that if we say nicer things about these poor
misunderstood kidnappers after the
event that they will leave us alone?love your site, Tim, as an expat Australian
tired of fashionable anti-American spite,
keep it up!Arresting the Age’s circulation slide could open up the possibility that the Green Left Weekly might get all capitalist and take over the Age. It could raise enough capital by increasing the number of annoying koala chuggers out on the streets.
Posted by platey mates on 2005 08 12 at 10:33 AM • permalink
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But I thought that Aussie/ Egytian mufti made sure Douglas got his medication?