http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/14/what-next-for-the-age/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:41:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/14/what-next-for-the-age/#comment-3028 pete Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3028 Too often, the "real news" isn't getting the front page treatment it deserves. I often wonder whether I'm not experiencing a "Life on Mars" episode and seeing a "Today Tonight", ACA or Channel 9 news service, where "real news" is incidental and not covered with any commitment. The Investigative team, some of their political writers and business writers are carrying them at the moment. They need to get to where the "masters" of old had taken them with quality journalism, where credibility was central. Too often, the “real news” isn’t getting the front page treatment it deserves. I often wonder whether I’m not experiencing a “Life on Mars” episode and seeing a “Today Tonight”, ACA or Channel 9 news service, where “real news” is incidental and not covered with any commitment. The Investigative team, some of their political writers and business writers are carrying them at the moment. They need to get to where the “masters” of old had taken them with quality journalism, where credibility was central.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/14/what-next-for-the-age/#comment-3029 goy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3029 The Age has been a sanitized Andrew Bolt for a long time. I buy it because it is the best of a bad lot, I thought. Its recent reporting of the Tibet/Torch fiasco is a good example. I thought there may be some info on the other side of the story. Was it a bloody minded crack down or what? How come it was so well co-ordinated? I now know that it was a response to a riot in which people were burned alive and that shops to be torched were marked out beforehand. And what is N.E.D.? But I had to search the net to get the info. I am now thinking what is the point of this paper which takes up so much space in my recycle bin. Can the standard be improved by simply changing the editor? I hope so. We badly need a balanced daily. The Age has been a sanitized Andrew Bolt for a long time. I buy it because it is the best of a bad lot, I thought. Its recent reporting of the Tibet/Torch fiasco is a good example. I thought there may be some info on the other side of the story. Was it a bloody minded crack down or what? How come it was so well co-ordinated? I now know that it was a response to a riot in which people were burned alive and that shops to be torched were marked out beforehand. And what is N.E.D.? But I had to search the net to get the info. I am now thinking what is the point of this paper which takes up so much space in my recycle bin. Can the standard be improved by simply changing the editor? I hope so. We badly need a balanced daily.

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