May, 2009

How did I forget about the Modern Lovers?

…. coz it ain’t working this morning. Perhaps that’s a good thing. Getting over it after a mild infatuation of a few months. Like the newsy feeds. Love the sharing of links and tips. Loathe the mawkish self referantialists. And yes, I do mean you. All the conversation lately seems to be centred on how [...]

I have to say at the off that I have never met Ben Naparstek, 23, new editor of The Monthly. But it is reassuring to see that that Morry Schwartz and Robert Manne have selected someone of better than drinking age. This presumably is to facilitate their regular ‘editorial board’ meetings at Jimmy Watson’s at [...]

Something a trifle wintry out there today. Is it the dipping Rudd poll? The nagghing presence or P.Costello? Maybe not. Might just have been the weather. This was yesterday: and this was just then. The difference a day makes etc. there were some lovely little pastel patches down there in the just lit city. The [...]

What I said at this mornings RMIT Communicator of the Year breakfast at Melbourne’s Hotel Windsor: You win. Incapable of independent thought, bereft of unique insight or inspiration, business models failing and with resources stretched to breaking by at least a decade of steady newsroom depletion … daily newspaper and broadcast journalism is in the [...]

Some sobering, sad news from The Washington Post: The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down The Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England’s most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks. Why should this concern us? Because – and despite what [...]