Comments on: New blood jostles for Fairfax control http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:41:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38572 Tom McLoughlin Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:49:26 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38572 That's quite a declaration there Marg, might have been the first sentence? Good read all the same. I tend to agree that Fairfax do need to reinforce it's public interest credentials to win more loyalty of Sydney metro consumers. That way they will want to support Fairfax. Want to advertise with them. They've made some good efforts recently teasing out the spiv aspects of NSW ALP, and even got the Planning Minister Kristine Keneally doing her own 'blue steel' (to borrow a phrase) in protest. (Really is KKK so ignorant or so shameless not to know that 'objective public servant' Haddad blocked a critical FoI in the sensitive Marrickville by election Sept 2005? That Haddad as now director of planning is thus seriously politicised, at least perception of same, ever since over that ongoing backlash to a $5B truck tunnel under that suburb? KKK doesn't know, as per Stateline via Estimates last week, who barrister Tim Robertson is, or that he's a leading counsel on planning law allied to Carr Labor in the 90ies? Can KKK's yankee accent really forgive such deficits in a govt of, by and for the people?) When I worked as a reader analyst at Media Monitors my night shift supervisor said with some validity that the SMH was the most important newspaper in the country. A big call contrary to the numbers. And yet by it's traditional role and positioning it was true. The halcyon days of big press might be behind us as Keating said today on WT abc but that's no rationale for throwing the babe out with the bath water. That’s quite a declaration there Marg, might have been the first sentence?

Good read all the same. I tend to agree that Fairfax do need to reinforce it’s public interest credentials to win more loyalty of Sydney metro consumers. That way they will want to support Fairfax. Want to advertise with them.

They’ve made some good efforts recently teasing out the spiv aspects of NSW ALP, and even got the Planning Minister Kristine Keneally doing her own ‘blue steel’ (to borrow a phrase) in protest.

(Really is KKK so ignorant or so shameless not to know that ‘objective public servant’ Haddad blocked a critical FoI in the sensitive Marrickville by election Sept 2005? That Haddad as now director of planning is thus seriously politicised, at least perception of same, ever since over that ongoing backlash to a $5B truck tunnel under that suburb? KKK doesn’t know, as per Stateline via Estimates last week, who barrister Tim Robertson is, or that he’s a leading counsel on planning law allied to Carr Labor in the 90ies? Can KKK’s yankee accent really forgive such deficits in a govt of, by and for the people?)

When I worked as a reader analyst at Media Monitors my night shift supervisor said with some validity that the SMH was the most important newspaper in the country. A big call contrary to the numbers. And yet by it’s traditional role and positioning it was true. The halcyon days of big press might be behind us as Keating said today on WT abc but that’s no rationale for throwing the babe out with the bath water.

]]> By: Mr Squid http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38565 Mr Squid Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:57:41 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38565 corbett could no doubt continue to make a magnificent contribution to the death throes of fairfax - i mean he's made a solid contribution already. but steve harris? as dull as dishwater, pedestrian in his thinking and formerly a member of the higher editorial echelons at the Age responsible with many others for its slide into nothingness. gerry noonan - nice bloke, good thinker, reputable journalist, but not up to breathing life back into the rotting carcase of fairfax. corbett could no doubt continue to make a magnificent contribution to the death throes of fairfax - i mean he’s made a solid contribution already. but steve harris? as dull as dishwater, pedestrian in his thinking and formerly a member of the higher editorial echelons at the Age responsible with many others for its slide into nothingness. gerry noonan - nice bloke, good thinker, reputable journalist, but not up to breathing life back into the rotting carcase of fairfax.

]]> By: Rowan http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38554 Rowan Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:48:41 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38554 Isn't Stephen Mayne a candidate? Isn’t Stephen Mayne a candidate?

]]> By: Dale Jennings http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38537 Dale Jennings Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:02:01 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38537 Dale Jennings Posted Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 5:00 pm | Permalink Scandal, Margaret? There’s nothing mysical about media. A media business is like any other - if dollars in exceeds dollars out, the business prospers. Fairfax has been rather patchy in this regard, while the Rural Press track record wass far more businesslike and impressive. As for numbers on the board of a public company bringing success, either we’ve discovered a bit holy grail here or we’re way off the mark. Reducing numbers tends to sharpen delivery and focus. No scandal generated that I can see…. Dale Jennings
Posted Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 5:00 pm | Permalink
Scandal, Margaret? There’s nothing mysical about media. A media business is like any other - if dollars in exceeds dollars out, the business prospers. Fairfax has been rather patchy in this regard, while the Rural Press track record wass far more businesslike and impressive. As for numbers on the board of a public company bringing success, either we’ve discovered a bit holy grail here or we’re way off the mark. Reducing numbers tends to sharpen delivery and focus. No scandal generated that I can see….

]]> By: Dale Jennings http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38536 Dale Jennings Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:00:33 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/new-blood-jostles-for-fairfax-control/#comment-38536 Scandal, Margaret? There's nothing mysical about media. A media business is like any other - if dollars in exceeds dollars out, the business prospers. Fairfax has been rather patchy in this regard, while the Rural Press track record wass far more businesslike and impressive. As for numbers on the board of a public company bringing success, either we've discovered a bit holy grail here or we're way off the mark. Reducing numbers tends to sharpen delivery and focus. No scandal generated that I can see.... Scandal, Margaret? There’s nothing mysical about media. A media business is like any other - if dollars in exceeds dollars out, the business prospers. Fairfax has been rather patchy in this regard, while the Rural Press track record wass far more businesslike and impressive. As for numbers on the board of a public company bringing success, either we’ve discovered a bit holy grail here or we’re way off the mark. Reducing numbers tends to sharpen delivery and focus. No scandal generated that I can see….

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