Canberra no longer metropolitan as far as Fairfax is concerned

johnboy said :

I hope I get a say in this arrangement!

Sorry JB. I’ve seen pictures of Damien, and he’s a pretty big bloke. I suggest that if he wants to row you across the lake in a bathtub, your best course of action would be to Lie Back and Think of England. 🙂

Myles said :

CT performs good coverage of Public Service and Defence issues, which have national implications, and it would be a loss to Fairfax if these stories were no longer part of the metro publishing wing.

Have to wait and see if they relegate CT to the legacy Rural Press digital content management system, or retain it on the metro.

It’s a bizarre move considering only a year or two back, it was elevated out of Rural Press status.

I think there’s little doubt they’ll move it over to the community level CMS. They surely realise that as the CT won’t adopt a paywall and the CT online aggregates SMH and Age content, so it provides a useful backdoor for freebie loving readers. So they’ll probably close that backdoor through a downgrade.

Then again perhaps they won’t, for surely they’ve now realised too that the paywall on the SMH and Age websites can be defeated by accessing them from a corporate network, or with a single click. (For Mac users, that single click is in the Develop menu to disable javascript before you open the article and then reenable it, the paywall is nothing more than a shadow box).

HiddenDragon said :

neanderthalsis said :

Deref said :

HiddenDragon said :

By comparison, the CT regularly extends, in effect, a two-fingered salute to people who are not rusted-on Labor/Green supporters and believers in an ever-growing role for government spending and regulation.

neanderthalsis said :

It contains no real news that it generates itself, but only rumour and leftist propaganda.

I particularly enjoy that socialist commie pinko Barnaby Joyce’s regular leftist rants.

Barnaby is at heart, as are many of the Nats, an agrarian socialist.

So him writing for Fairfax is a bit like Craig “Shirley” Emerson writing for The Oz.

The CT has always had a token right winger writing for them. In the 1970s and ’80s it was Bill Mandle, a professor at the CCAE (Uni of Canberra). Since then they have had John Stone, Angela Shanahan, David Barnett and now Barnaby. It’s a bit like how the ABC’s far left program Insiders has the occasional appearance by Piers Akerman and Andrew Bolt (before TEN gave him his own show).

neanderthalsis said :

Deref said :

HiddenDragon said :

By comparison, the CT regularly extends, in effect, a two-fingered salute to people who are not rusted-on Labor/Green supporters and believers in an ever-growing role for government spending and regulation.

neanderthalsis said :

It contains no real news that it generates itself, but only rumour and leftist propaganda.

I particularly enjoy that socialist commie pinko Barnaby Joyce’s regular leftist rants.

Barnaby is at heart, as are many of the Nats, an agrarian socialist.

So him writing for Fairfax is a bit like Craig “Shirley” Emerson writing for The Oz.

Deref said :

HiddenDragon said :

By comparison, the CT regularly extends, in effect, a two-fingered salute to people who are not rusted-on Labor/Green supporters and believers in an ever-growing role for government spending and regulation.

neanderthalsis said :

It contains no real news that it generates itself, but only rumour and leftist propaganda.

I particularly enjoy that socialist commie pinko Barnaby Joyce’s regular leftist rants.

Barnaby is at heart, as are many of the Nats, an agrarian socialist.

Deref said :

HiddenDragon said :

By comparison, the CT regularly extends, in effect, a two-fingered salute to people who are not rusted-on Labor/Green supporters and believers in an ever-growing role for government spending and regulation.

neanderthalsis said :

It contains no real news that it generates itself, but only rumour and leftist propaganda.

I particularly enjoy that socialist commie pinko Barnaby Joyce’s regular leftist rants.

Bananaby’s contributions (I thought he wrote for Murdoch….) are just sneaky tokenism by the socialist commie pinko collective who run the Crimes!

HiddenDragon said :

By comparison, the CT regularly extends, in effect, a two-fingered salute to people who are not rusted-on Labor/Green supporters and believers in an ever-growing role for government spending and regulation.

neanderthalsis said :

It contains no real news that it generates itself, but only rumour and leftist propaganda.

I particularly enjoy that socialist commie pinko Barnaby Joyce’s regular leftist rants.

Next step will be to rename the Chronicle as the Times and give it away. Readership numbers might then hold up. Surely Jack Waterford’s secret dream is to be staff writer at the Chronicle.

CT performs good coverage of Public Service and Defence issues, which have national implications, and it would be a loss to Fairfax if these stories were no longer part of the metro publishing wing.

Have to wait and see if they relegate CT to the legacy Rural Press digital content management system, or retain it on the metro.

It’s a bizarre move considering only a year or two back, it was elevated out of Rural Press status.

I see one major issue with the CT being downgraded to “community news”, being that the classification as news is grossly misleading. It contains no real news that it generates itself, but only rumour and leftist propaganda. It seems the only dead tree news source with any balance and decent journalism these days is the AFR.