Comments on: “Rip and read” world coverage at the SMH http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/rip-and-read-world-coverage-at-the-smh/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/rip-and-read-world-coverage-at-the-smh/#comment-27735 Tom McLoughlin Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:50:01 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/rip-and-read-world-coverage-at-the-smh/#comment-27735 There is an axiom in politics that when you start attacking the big media then you are already on the skids because it just draws attention to your defensiveness about their message, possibly a weak grasp of content to meet the case/message in that media coverage, and possibly an implication you are sitting on more adverse dirt and trying to build a flimsy barrier to more probing. But what to say about this situation where one big media attacks another big media. Regretable and probably misconceived given, in the example at least of abc 702's Deborah Cameron, we have a loyal product of Fairfax. Last week Cameron was explaining how she was told to straighten up her act when she started at the Herald and not sign as "Debbie" anymore. It's good sport on one level for micro indy bloggers here, but I know we need a functioning public square. In this transition phase it may well be a patchwork of cobble stones from crikey to the Swinburne Initiative to Radio National, and a few others. What Fairfax senior executives fail to grasp perhaps is that good journalism is a vocation not a profit centre and that they are all woefully overpaid. There is an axiom in politics that when you start attacking the big media then you are already on the skids because it just draws attention to your defensiveness about their message, possibly a weak grasp of content to meet the case/message in that media coverage, and possibly an implication you are sitting on more adverse dirt and trying to build a flimsy barrier to more probing.

But what to say about this situation where one big media attacks another big media. Regretable and probably misconceived given, in the example at least of abc 702’s Deborah Cameron, we have a loyal product of Fairfax. Last week Cameron was explaining how she was told to straighten up her act when she started at the Herald and not sign as “Debbie” anymore.

It’s good sport on one level for micro indy bloggers here, but I know we need a functioning public square. In this transition phase it may well be a patchwork of cobble stones from crikey to the Swinburne Initiative to Radio National, and a few others. What Fairfax senior executives fail to grasp perhaps is that good journalism is a vocation not a profit centre and that they are all woefully overpaid.

]]> By: tony http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/rip-and-read-world-coverage-at-the-smh/#comment-27717 tony Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:26:17 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/rip-and-read-world-coverage-at-the-smh/#comment-27717 So who gets sued when they get it wrong? So who gets sued when they get it wrong?

]]> By: Margaret Bozik http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/rip-and-read-world-coverage-at-the-smh/#comment-27677 Margaret Bozik Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:32:58 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/rip-and-read-world-coverage-at-the-smh/#comment-27677 It's not just "world coverage" that our local dailies outsource. In my job each day I put up around half a dozen links to business stories on our organisation's web site. The vast majority - all sourced from the News Limited and Fairfax websites - originate from external news providers - AAP, Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, even Times Online. There are some days I cannot attribute a single story to journalists employed directly by The Age/SMH or Australian. It’s not just “world coverage” that our local dailies outsource. In my job each day I put up around half a dozen links to business stories on our organisation’s web site. The vast majority - all sourced from the News Limited and Fairfax websites - originate from external news providers - AAP, Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, even Times Online. There are some days I cannot attribute a single story to journalists employed directly by The Age/SMH or Australian.

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