Sydney Morning Herald Tensions

5 Comments

1. ted
   Posted February 24, 2009 at 2:32 pm | Permalink

   What is this? Cluedo? Aren’t you supposed to be a journalist? For Chrissakes.

2. bill
   Posted February 24, 2009 at 3:49 pm | Permalink

   Either you write something worth a post, or don’t bother. I mean, seriously? A “few senior correspondents feel they are being micro-managed” because there’s a new boss in the office? Holy cow, is that news? Is it even slightly our of the ordinary?

3. Larry
   Posted February 24, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

   Some of them need to be micro-managed. For a few of them, the fortunes of the employer company seem not to interest them one iota. This self-governing class cost a lot for work that varies in both its originality and interest to readers. Plenty of others see them as over-priced cost units rather than reader magnets.

4. Tim Foyle
   Posted February 25, 2009 at 12:09 am | Permalink

   Gosh. Ted, Bill, Larry. Settle down. Margaret, have you any idea what type of ‘micro-management’? Would it verge on scrutiny out-side of work hours, or covert auditing of the sort a trust-worthy employee might find surprisingly invasive and in contravention of any code an ethical journalist might abide by?

5. Margaret Simons
   Posted February 25, 2009 at 9:37 am | Permalink

   It is extraordinary, and gratifying in a way, that people have come to have such high expectations of this little part-time blog with it’s niche audience.

   Sorry to have disappointed you, Ted, Bill. I have been told more, but have not had the time to the necessary legwork. So you are right. I should have saved it until I could say more. I’ll try to do better.