Comments on: Memo: We’re not a happy team at The Advertiser

By: eag

eag — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:14:51 +0000

What can you expect with a beginning like that? Old time journalism is dead, most reporting isn’t worth reading and most stories non-news or not worth bothering with.Wish I had something positive to say about newspapers and journalism in general but it’s all sunk to a low level.Start looking for a job in an ethical field maybe.

By: meski

meski — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:57:43 +0000

“If you cannot do x don’t bother coming in tomorrow” - Hey, thanks for the holiday, see you day after tomorrow!

By: murray waters

murray waters — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:10:29 +0000

Banned sentences:
“real estate” and “crash” in the same sentence
“real estate bubble”
“real estate is overpriced”
“it is not a good time to buy real estate”

By: Liz Johnston

Liz Johnston — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:59:55 +0000

Did I miss the bit about sexual harassment in ‘Tiser’s memo? Or was it written or subbed by a straight male who hasn’t noticed it. Interesting to see that after years of human resources and management- speak about staff relations nothing has changed since I left News Limited newspapers nearly 20 years ago (except apparently nobody gets sexually harassed anymore).

By: Elan

Elan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:08:25 +0000

Don’t be silly Mr Squid. I wouldn’t put the Addy on my garden on its ownsome. My garden has its dignity you know.

No, I mix it up with all manner of pooey things, they all blend in so well. Only then will the wee wormies give it the light of day.

(To the many decent folk that still work there, my commiserations).

Barry, I remember youse!!!

By: Mr Squid

Mr Squid — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:20:00 +0000

you should see the s..t we have to put up with where i live. still, it’s not as bad as the NT News. i stopped wiping my a..e with newscrap products years ago for fear of catching something terminal. i certainly wouldn’t put them on the garden.

By: Barry Hailstone

Barry Hailstone — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:10:36 +0000

I worked at the ‘tiser for many years and in the last few years before I left it was like presiding over the death of an old friend.
There is a limit to how far you can dumb down in order to keep circulation. It was reached years ago and South Australians deserve better!

By: Elan

Elan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:27:47 +0000

Funny thing Claire, but we tend to comprehend a few bits and pieces, we’re big on recognising condescension for instance.

Please don’t knock the Advertiser, it makes fantastic mulch.

By: Peter Cox

Peter Cox — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:48:45 +0000

This is just a follow-up to the comment by the sharp-eyed Patario (of Sturt…..are there any other Partarios?)

As of about 1840 EDT 19th October, the caption you kindly posted has been partially cleaned up. It appears that sufferer’s brains no longer share some sort of symbiotic hearing with ants, thankfully, but their bodies and muscles still detonate, which really sounds quite drastic.

What word could a malapropism turn into “detonate”? Surely not “degrade”, “de-tone” is not an English word (IMHO), and “deteriorate” is not a captioner’s word.

Beats me, but thanks for the laugh.

By: Claire O'Connor

Claire O'Connor — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:32:04 +0000

The thing that shocks me most about the Advertiser is that the citizens of South Australia do not seem to notice that their daily local and their national newspaper deprives them of adequate, well informed and accurate NEWS! If the journalists know, and if anyone visiting from elsewhere notices, what does that say about the readers???

By: Colin Leaker

Colin Leaker — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:53:53 +0000

Can Crikey readers grab “The Advertiser” memo. as a template for use in about half of the large corporate entities in this country as it would be very useful

By: Partario of Sturt

Partario of Sturt — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:05:21 +0000

Slightly off topic, but relative to journalistic standards at News Limited, I found this caption to a prize winning photo…

“Jock Lalara suffers from MJD a mystery Groote Eylandt disease that slowly detonates the body and its muscles whilst leaving the brain totally co-hear ant. It’s a painful hideous disease related to Huntington’s.”

http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5061251-5007150-28,00.html

By: Frank Campbell

Frank Campbell — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:04:50 +0000

Moneypenny: No ‘fence to Cambra, but it didn’t occur to me that it was a capital city.

By: bob1234

bob1234 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:14:59 +0000

TAKE NOTE ‘THE ADVERTISER’

By: Mr Squid

Mr Squid — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:14:34 +0000

michael, if you want a real taste of this junkspeak watch any cooking show, in particular the late and very much missed Cook and the Chef. It was non-stop fry off, plate up, slice down, blahdeblahdeblah … a mad hatter’s tea party of what are, after all, adverbs with specific meanings and uses - eg time, position, quantity, degree, etc etc, not just as redundant gabble.

By: Michael Callinan

Michael Callinan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:07:29 +0000

May I respectfully draw the stressed journalists’ attention to the fact that some readers find the phrase ‘cover off on’ an abomination and it should, in all cases, be replaced with the word ‘cover’.

By: Mr Squid

Mr Squid — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:24:11 +0000

what are these pathetic grubs whining about. they work for newscrap. they should do as they’re told.

By: john2066

john2066 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:22:32 +0000

Ha ha ha. The murdoch empire finally begins to die, lets hope of virulent slow cancer.

The gutless murdoch hacks for years ruined our democracy with their biased right-wing proprietor grovelling rubbish, now like the filthy bacteria they truly are, they are turning on each other. I wonder what the writers for pravda did when that collapsed? Can’t come soon enough. I would personally love to see these snivelling glove-puppets have to get jobs in the real world.

Oh GOD this is good!

By: Fiona Katauskas

Fiona Katauskas — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:20:28 +0000

I know someone who once worked for the Courier Mail under Chris Mitchell. Apparently back in the mid 90’s they were banned from reporting on global warming and dugongs.

By: james mcdonald

james mcdonald — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:39:35 +0000

And these days there’s always google and wikipedia. Oops, I promised to shut up.

By: Bullmore's Ghost

Bullmore's Ghost — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:29:07 +0000

JMc: ‘“Many reporters feel pressured to never leave their desks”
Time was, many reporters felt pressured to never split an infinitive.’

Time was when a reporter was expected to be out getting stories and only at his/her desk to type them up — before the deadline.

It’s been said that journalist are being replaced by ‘churnalists’, so I guess you have to stay glued to your chair in that role.

By: moneypenny

moneypenny — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:08:15 +0000

@Frank Campbell - actually the worst capital city newspaper is the Canberra Times. It’s now 4pm and the CT website still has not been updated with today’s leading stories - if you are interested you can read all about occurred on Saturday as reported in Sunday’s Times (usually it’s like this on the weekends, but obviously the disease is spreading to weekdays).

By: james mcdonald

james mcdonald — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:00:13 +0000

“Many reporters feel pressured to never leave their desks”
Time was, many reporters felt pressured to never split an infinitive.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself. I’ll shut up now.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:53:25 +0000

I wonder what the ‘banned subjects and words’ are.

By: Frank Campbell

Frank Campbell — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:28:52 +0000

Overwork, abuse, managerial arrogance, falling standards…and it’s still the worst capital city newspaper in the country. What a waste of a monopoly.

We’ve heard the same story from many organizations in the last twenty years.

Corporatism bears the seeds of its own demise, right Rupert?