Comments on: A leaner, meaner paper as Age cuts pages

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

After TomMcL’s egregious and meretricious remarks my tiny comment is minute and applies only to their online section. To comment online with the Age you had better do it before 11am. This is the time when all the forums appear to close. Faced with a ‘blank wall’ it is easier to forget it than to persevere and why keep coming back to where you’re not welcome? This would cost them a lot of goodwill, I would have thought.

By: Interested Party

Interested Party — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The discounting can’t be underestimated….in the SunHerald, the biggest seller in the stable, there is a standing offer in the marketplace of $12k a page…around a third of their rate card price, so effectively 70% or so off… strange business model doncha think?

By: Tom McL

Tom McL — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I tell ya, getting rich doing journalism or anything else is not what it’s cracked up to be in the 21C. Allright for the 20th, logical, even commendable. Them days are going pretty fast, if not pretty much gone. Get your floaties, don’t trust any corporate exec shonk living in the past, and start building those cooperatives and grassroots alliances. When the wheels start falling off this model of an endless growth political economy with more extreme weather and higher sea levels peak oil and all the rest, look to eachother not to the top down guys. Yeah I know this is about a corporate media organisation. It’s still the same answer. The business of cranking higher production of more widgets to leverage more adverts is contracting all around us. Maybe the structural ramp up sale of coal as per econ editors in SMH and Oz yesterday can postpone the global contraction here but I wouldn’t bet on it. Hansen reckons 350 ppb has been way exceeded. It’s the ecology …..

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Margaret, the NSW economy is not “sick” or at least no “sicker” than Vic. Last time I looked GDP growth in NSW was slightly faster than down Mexico way. I suspect the SMH mob are just better at making excuses. They blame Iemma for everything else that goes wrong so why not add their own performance to the list.