Comments on: Beecher: Forget Kirk, when will they sack the Fairfax board?

By: Cathy

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

That patronage drops off forcing more fiscal ‘proberty’ causing job cuts as training and expertise are deemed superfluous extravagance has nothing to do with the paper morphing from a broadsheet to a rag. As long as the pay packets and the rhetoric tells another story the Ron Walkers and Fairfax Board will never see it any other way. It’s the ar*e-about business model familiar only to the same old players with a finger in every pie as they hop from one board to another doing nothing more than damage. They’re like buzzards - until the carcass is picked clean they’ll feed off it forever.

By: Bob Sessions

Bob Sessions — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Well done, Eric. It had to be said, but who will listen? Certainly not Ron Walker. I always thought the chair of a board was meant to be a leader, knowlegeable in in their field, capable of inspiring and leading the organisation to new and better ways, particulalry when times are challenging. It is, as you say, a tragedy.

By: Cathy

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

Amen! And that gem Eric should be circulated to the boards of radio and television outlets similarly gutted of their ID. The Bill Caralis radio model in the Sydney, Hunter and Tweed is a prime case of mangling the airwaves and depriving millions of radio listeners of relevant news information and entertainment. Hiving off essential services to private operators and handing out radio and television licences like lotto tickets is all part of a national media meltdown. Another job for Rudd to put on his 2020 vision list.

By: Mark Davis

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

As a former Age and BRW journalist, and a former colleague of Mr Beecher at The Age for a short time, I couldn’t have put it better. The board and management have been brain-dead for as long as I can remember - Hilmer and Walker possibly never had brains at all - and some of the editorial executives would have been better employed as the ingredients for pumpkin soup. Somehow, magnificently, they have managed to make Young Wokker look good. The only thing left of note in the stinking ruins is the Fin Review - let’s pray that they are forced to sell it.