Comments on: Media briefs: Roasts at Ramsey farewell … AAP hires a firer http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/media-briefs-roasts-at-ramsey-farewell-aap-hires-a-firer/ now with extra source Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:54:15 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/media-briefs-roasts-at-ramsey-farewell-aap-hires-a-firer/#comment-8833 Chris Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-8833 Why anyone invites Mike Carlton anywhere is surely just being courteous. Shame he rarely returns it. Why anyone invites Mike Carlton anywhere is surely just being courteous. Shame he rarely returns it.

]]> By: davo http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/media-briefs-roasts-at-ramsey-farewell-aap-hires-a-firer/#comment-8834 davo Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-8834 When Annabel Crabb and Miranda Devine are your only faces, it's time to go, Fairfax. Jesus Christ! When Annabel Crabb and Miranda Devine are your only faces, it’s time to go, Fairfax. Jesus Christ!

]]> By: Michael de Angelos http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/media-briefs-roasts-at-ramsey-farewell-aap-hires-a-firer/#comment-8835 Michael de Angelos Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-8835 Alex Mitchells' report on Alan Ramsey's farewell party reflects decisions that have united so many SMH readers of all backgrounds-the completely bizarre decisions of Fairfax to fire real writers , or in Ramsey's case, not to have prepared at least a year ahead to replace Alan with an alternative writer of near similar talent.<br /><br />Never have the words 'death wish' seemed so appropriate. What next-the removal of David Marr or perhaps Andrew Hornery ?. Recently the gossip columnist Annette Sharp (with impeccable sources) launguished in limbo for a month after returning from maternity leave only to be snapped up by the Daily Telegraph and their popular Sydney Confidential. Is any of this getting through to David Kirk ? Alex Mitchells’ report on Alan Ramsey’s farewell party reflects decisions that have united so many SMH readers of all backgrounds-the completely bizarre decisions of Fairfax to fire real writers , or in Ramsey’s case, not to have prepared at least a year ahead to replace Alan with an alternative writer of near similar talent.

Never have the words ‘death wish’ seemed so appropriate. What next-the removal of David Marr or perhaps Andrew Hornery ?. Recently the gossip columnist Annette Sharp (with impeccable sources) launguished in limbo for a month after returning from maternity leave only to be snapped up by the Daily Telegraph and their popular Sydney Confidential. Is any of this getting through to David Kirk ?

]]> By: The Big C http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/media-briefs-roasts-at-ramsey-farewell-aap-hires-a-firer/#comment-8836 The Big C Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-8836 Shame on me for not keeping up with the news at Fairfax and nto being aware that the wonder and wit of Alan Ramsey will be replaced by the vinegar spitting, action figure of doom gloom and all things Sarah Palin, Miranda Devine.<br />For fairfax to replace a career wordsmith such as Ramsey with a vindictive dribbler such as Devine only demonstrates how much Fairfax under that rugby sniffing CEO, Kirk has collapsed under the weight of its own scrum.<br />I can only say that my Saturdays are now going to become a long and boring campus without my Sydney Morning Herald, as I cannot now bring myself to buy the Saturday paper knowing that the News Review section will be poisioned by the fingertips of Miranda Devine. Shame on me for not keeping up with the news at Fairfax and nto being aware that the wonder and wit of Alan Ramsey will be replaced by the vinegar spitting, action figure of doom gloom and all things Sarah Palin, Miranda Devine.
For fairfax to replace a career wordsmith such as Ramsey with a vindictive dribbler such as Devine only demonstrates how much Fairfax under that rugby sniffing CEO, Kirk has collapsed under the weight of its own scrum.
I can only say that my Saturdays are now going to become a long and boring campus without my Sydney Morning Herald, as I cannot now bring myself to buy the Saturday paper knowing that the News Review section will be poisioned by the fingertips of Miranda Devine.

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