Comments on: Help save Fairfax: send them your suggestions

By: HB

HB — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:55:32 +0000

A marked improvement to the Age would result from the retirement of Lawrence Money. Please.

By: Mr Denmore

Mr Denmore — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:41:01 +0000

Make the hard copy broadsheets a serious, weekly, indepth publication and report breaking news and analysis online.

Ditch any showbiz ‘news’ that is clearly about someone trying to plug their new album/book/play/movie. It’s either news or publicity. Most of the time it is publicity.

Use the hard copy version as a platform for interactive discussion online.

Stop reporting economics and politics out of Canberra. Take the journalists out of the press gallery entirely. The public isn’t interested in politics as a game of tennis.

By: deccles

deccles — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:48:54 +0000

‘The Age’ has become a sad roneo copy of ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’. I loved ‘The Age’ now I wouldn’t line the bottom of the bird cage with it. The SMH should become a national (in effect has with most of the features stuff based in Sydney). Even the market report in today’s Epicure referred to ‘Batlow’ Apples whem most market apples this time of year for Victorian markets are sourced from Tasmania.

Online Fairfax (the first into the space in Australia) is now a text book case of how not to be an online news source.

Bring back ‘The National Times’ I say. The only thing I’ll miss about ‘The Age’ is Leunig and Tandberg.

By: Heathdon McGregor

Heathdon McGregor — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:59:31 +0000

Perhaps the age could get rid of its special interest editors woth a personal barrow to push who treat journalism as if Mr Murdoch was right and trash is important. No more stories calling people names without evidence to support it. By evidence I dont mean surveys or polls.

Put the value in the articles or join the truth as a muckracking piece of history.

Leave the unresearched unconsidered crap to the hun

By: julz

julz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:22:58 +0000

Rubbish Jamesk! The Age is a wonderful newspaper, one which I read (almost) cover to cover every day. What The Age needs is more depth pieces and an ‘Editor of Whimsy’ to go with all its other editorial sections – where Leunig, Katz et al can flourish.

Brickbats: The Age really needs to get its online act together. Sloppy, late postings, don’t post the good stuff. For instance, why waste the entertainment section on OS material found in any trash magazine when it could run all the great reviews of books and films done by Melbourne writers for Melbourne audiences? I’m constantly frustrated by the failure of The Age Online to utilise its well-written articles and reviews. Also, search for anything in the online version and you get ridiculous results. Brian, how about putting some people with intelligence – perhaps even just some people – onto ensuring that the online Age is up-to-date and relevant to your market?

By: JamesK

JamesK — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:04:38 +0000

Terminate the worst newspaper in Australia by putting The Age into liquidation and make The SMH a truly national broadsheet.
The absence of The Age could only do no end of good for the battered reputation of the Fairfax stable.