That’s a straight steal from Professor Bunyip on April 26. He hasn’t been heard from since. It may be dangerous to write about Fairfax. That may explain why my Google news headlines include no news whatever of todays momentous events, or perhaps it means no one actually cares …
Well Fairfax cares, we have this from the Age …
Fairfax Media will cut 1900 staff and begin charging for content on the websites of its two main metropolitan newspapers as the company adjusts to shrinking advertising revenue.
This will bring an end to broad sheet printing at Chullora in NSW, and Tullamarine in Victoria by June 2014. As the article quaintly puts it …
The size of the broadsheet papers will shrink to the tabloid format used for the sister newspaper, The Australian Financial Review.
clearly a Fairfax reader would have no other knowledge of tabloids. Nor would they know that there is a debate on the subject of anthropogenic global warming, and until very recently any bad news regarding the Labor government would have come as a surprise.
Print media is in decline, its sad but it’s true, the internet is more immediate and can cover a much wider field, searchably. But poor old Fairfax has fallen faster and further for another reason – it’s rubbish.
Its one-eyed support for the left when most of its (former) readership votes Liberal is not a smart strategy.
bobmcgee 