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Jeremy Sear | Jun 19, 2012 9:41PM | EMAIL | PRINT

How on Earth will Fairfax report news stories when it’s down 1900 staff?

“People take to Twitter”! What an angle.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Herald Sun went with PEOPLE’S PICTURES BECAME SLIGHTLY WONKY:

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Jack Sparraaggghhh

Posted June 19, 2012 at 10:09 pm | Permalink

“Hundreds” ?

I count about 70 tweets with the #earthquake tag since the quake struck.
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Jack Sparraaggghhh

Posted June 19, 2012 at 10:31 pm | Permalink

Okay. My personal twitter fail…

The power of social media – over 30,000 earthquake mentions on Twitter (Aus) in the past hour ‪#earthquake‬ pic.twitter.com/W3hLDzcf

I’ll get the hang of it someday soon.
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monkeywrench

Posted June 20, 2012 at 6:47 am | Permalink

One of my FB friends timed it at 31 minutes (after I told him on FB about it) before the story appeared on a news webpage. The ability of the internet to keep one informed is quite breathtaking.
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Marek Bage

Posted June 20, 2012 at 9:06 am | Permalink

Apparently ‘dumb’ is the new black.

Cheers.
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littlemaths

Posted June 20, 2012 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

“Newspaper of the year”, folks.
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Jack Sparraaggghhh

Posted June 21, 2012 at 10:10 pm | Permalink

A mashup of an image from the Herald Sun’s online coverage of this week’s quake in Victoria.

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