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 process of [...]
Tag Archives: journalism
All our bases belong to you
May 14, 2009 – 2:41 pm
Facts, agendas and cynical tabloidism
December 10, 2008 – 8:27 am
Brilliant … Melbourne’s Herald Sun discovers the homeless world cup. How so? Because “at least 15 foreign soccer players” are apparently seeking asylum.
That for one thing seems only natural. Lets see, you’re a homeless street soccer star from Zimbabwe and you don’t attempt to get asylum at the end of the tournament? You’d need your [...]
Tell us, Herald Sun, what is news then?
December 8, 2008 – 8:40 am
There must be some independent standard of what makes news … I’d have thought there would be certain baseline commonalities between two newspapers in one city, things that happen that ought be reported. Are newspapers a mirror of surrounding events? Or something altogether more cynical and contrived?
I’m wondering this appropos of The Age and its [...]
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