Bad news for the Canberra Times

Looks like we’re going to get regular fisk rants in the CT now. Not surprising given the ed’s background with the Age.

At least the recent biased opinion pieces are buried in the middle and not planted under headlines on the front page in the guise of news “reports”.

publius hit the nail on the head. anyone who gets political press releases recognises lots of ct journos migrate to alp press officer jobs.

there was one particularly bad one, who only engaged in press release journalism and i dont think ever left her desk, who popped up working for the alp.

You’re right Simto, unfortunately.

It’s always astounding how Fisk gets a run anywhere.

Hm – I’m not so sure. Incompetent journalism from the “wrong” side of the political spectrum (depending on the biases of the individual paper) seems to get punished a lot quicker than those who agree with the rest of the paper’s commetariat.

Take the example of Alan Jones – kicked off the Sun Herald for the Freddy Forsythe incident, and picked up by the Sunday Telegraph immediately.

Well I’m available 😉

Shanahan got booted for lazy writing, not her politics.

She was put on in the first place specifically to try to get a balance of views, but she let herself down with the writing.

I’m sure there’ll be a permanent replacement from her side of the spectrum soonish.

Most of the Canberra Times so called political journalists are cowed by Stanhope. The incredible (puff) piece on Stanhope and his government last week was both a disgrace and an embarrassment. The young “journalist” should be ashamed of himself. It was a classic example of hagiography. A couple of the political writers were Labor staffers- why don’t they declare that? They can be relied upon to find a way of presenting Labor in a positive light or by just going a little “soft”. Stanhope has them bluffed.

Instead of running stories on the back page about the North Melbourne Kangaroos or the Wallabies… and ran stories about genuine stories about real local football teams like the Raiders, they might sell more newspapers.

Angela Shanahan was booted? She might have been a shit stirrer, but at least she balanced the wet lefties like Frisk. I hope she gets a job on the Daily Terror.

Indeed, if they spent some time and money on their website maybe I’d take them a bit more seriously.