If your principal fund of ideas is coming from the man who is also about to be/actually is the country’s leader, then you’re less a publication of critical commentary than a mouthpiece.
The Monthly
The Monthly gets its Manne after Warhaft exits
According to a long-term observer of Melburnian journalism, it is a simple enough case of “two middle aged bores who can’t stand it when a smart young woman answers them back.”
The Monthly to publish Wendi Deng story
The Monthly magazine has announced that it has bought and will run – at a length of about 10,000 words – the Wendi Deng profile that Fairfax suppressed. Thank God for independent media.
Anthropologist appointed to edit The Monthly
Publisher Morry Schwartz will raise eyebrows in the media world again with his typically unconventional choice of anthropologist and media unknown Sally Warhaft to replace Christian Ryan as editor of The Monthly.
