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Alan Oakley falls off the editors’ carousel

December 4, 2008 – 8:31 pm

What a rotten time to be an editor of a newspaper. This afternoon Sydney Morning Herald editor Alan Oakley either stepped down or was sacked, depending on who you listen to.
More on the implications of that later, but step back a moment and think about all the editors whose heads have rolled in the last [...]

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Bidgood No Good? How About the Rest of Us?

December 4, 2008 – 11:04 am

Some weird moral conundrums in the MP-photos affair, in which Labor backbencher James Bidgood flogged the photos he took of a man threatening to set himself alight on the lawns of Parliament House.
Michelle Grattan opined on the Radio National’s Breakfast show this morning that common human decency should have told Bidgood that what he did [...]

By Margaret Simons | Posted in Uncategorized, fairfax, garry linnell, media ethics, news limited | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (3)