16 Comments

1.   Bruce (Friday 18 January 2008, 12:18 pm) # 

   Independent from actual journalists. ;-)

   
   
2.   Wah (Friday 18 January 2008, 12:27 pm) # 

   Independent from any editorial direction or journalistic expertise at board level to the point where journos are considered “content providers” who fill the spaces between ads.

   
   
3.   The Editor (Friday 18 January 2008, 12:30 pm) # 

   Couldn’t have said it better myself, boys.

   
   
4.   Steve D (Friday 18 January 2008, 12:42 pm) # 

   Planet Earth?

   The Herald Sun is a much better size for lining cat trays. The Age is better used as housing materials.

   
   
5.   Skeptic (Friday 18 January 2008, 12:57 pm) # 

   I noticed this a few weeks back and had to search out previous editions of the Age - gawd but I can be slack with my timely recycling - to make sure it had been changed and thought much the same as you Ed.

   I have just cancelled my subscription to the Age, citing the following reasons:

   1. the 2 issues are the same because it’s the Christmas break but we will still charge you the same price. I think this was the Friday/Saturday between Christmas and New Year. And they didn’t even include the weekend magazine.

   2. the absence of comics and refusal to offer its readers an explanation.

   3. the piss-poor content of the most recent Epicure.

   I’m just glad they don’t run a sandwich shop - “Dear valued customers - due to the summer holidays ( what, you don’t have any? Stiff!) we will be reducing the fillings of all our sandwiches but rest assured, the price will stay the same.”

   
   
6.   Andy (Friday 18 January 2008, 2:09 pm) # 

   I like to think that the Hun is read by people who don’t know they’re dumb; and that the Age is read by people who like to think they’re smart. But maybe that’s too elitist?

   
   
7.   Ant Rogenous (Friday 18 January 2008, 4:14 pm) # 

   No, I think you’re pretty spot on there Andy. To that I’d add that The Age is produced by people who like to kid themselves that Melbourne is New York.

   
   
8.   The Editor (Friday 18 January 2008, 4:15 pm) # 

   I wear my “London, New York, Paris, Brunswick” t-shirt without a hint of irony.

   (Whilst sipping a latte, of course.)

   
   
9.   Wah (Friday 18 January 2008, 11:56 pm) # 

   Maybe if The Age went back to some decent investigative journalism rather than being obsessed with where to get the best coffee in Melbourne and hired journalists who realised that Melbourne actually runs out further than the tram lines it might have more relavence.
   This week Epicure had a story about hip bars in “suburbia” - Yarraville, Northcote, Hawthorn, Windsor, Abbotsford, Richmond, Fitzroy, Collingwood and you fucking guessed it Brunswick.
   Either they’re a bunch of elitist fucktards or things are so tight at Fairfax they won’t allow the reporter to claim more than a Zone 1 ticket in travel expenses.
   And while I’m standing high in Phar Lap’s saddle, I wouldnt wipe my arse with the Good Weekend or Sunday Life.

   
   
10.   krypto (Saturday 19 January 2008, 12:31 am) # 

    clearly the Age is independant of independance, I liked it better when it was the Argus, the coverage of the gold mining licence fiasco and the Eureka “incident” was world class, world class I tells ya.

    
    
11.   Wah (Saturday 19 January 2008, 1:02 am) # 

    The Age and Argus were actually separate papers in a time when Melbourne had a quarter of the population but four daily newspapers.
    But yes the Eureka expose was excellent journalism as to was the coverage of Bodyline, a term which was actually penned by legendary Argus sports writer Hugh Buggy - so his grand nephew keeps telling me.

    
    
12.   silpheed (Sunday 20 January 2008, 2:18 pm) # 

    another shining example of the age’s ‘journalism’ is that third best blog. reading what’s behind that link actually makes me angry. yes i know it’s just a blog, but still.

    
    
13.   krypto (Sunday 20 January 2008, 11:20 pm) # 

    thanks Wah, I’ll be sure to do a bit better homework before I make a smart arse remark in the future.
    Do you know much about the events of the stockade? it’s a chapter of Australian history that has always fascinated me I’d love to pick your brain.

    
    
14.   Wah (Monday 21 January 2008, 10:01 pm) # 

    Krypto I was merely concurring with your gag about the Argus’ coverage of the Eureka Stockade - having read my post again it seems like I know what I’m talking about. Sorry to give that illusion - the the Hugh Buggy bit is true.
    I know the basics of the Stockade and the the guy who led it, Peter Lalor, became an anti union thug in a later life.

    
    
15.   krypto (Saturday 26 January 2008, 1:21 pm) # 

    oh right, I’m reading a biography of Raffaello Carboni who was the only (known) participant to have written an account of the events of the stockade (all the rest of the accounts were written by government and police sources).
    Carboni later returned to Italy and was involved in the revolution there also, effectively he was arrested for treason in TWO countries, quite an effort I think.

    
    
16.   Damian (Saturday 26 January 2008, 9:54 pm) # 

    This comment thread is now officially “gold”.

    
    

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