Dear Canberra Times, could we have some local news please?

I bought it today (dead tree version) – the only good thing I can say is that I’m through it in approx 10 mins flat (cover to cover)…which leaves me time to get on with the more important things in life. Like reading RA.

Canberra Times website is crap. Not worth reading most of the time. I wonder.. do they think it bumps up the circ. numbers by keeping the website so uniformative? Because I think it has the opposite effect- it certainly puts me off buying the CT- I’d rather read the SMH or Australian anyday.

I was quite surprised a couple of times last week that local stories got into double figures – assuming 2 is a double figure – musta been slow news days.

I read the cartoon and letters to the editor online.
At the moment local issues are more likely to be investigated/exposed/refuted etc via the letters page than by any in depth articles in the paper itself.

I use media portal @ work – its my job 🙂

Oh, you’re not that old; you’ve only got three years over me. 😉

My God Thumper, how old are you???? 🙂

Britney Spears hardly rates a mention in the CT that’s why I don’t buy it.

Maybe they need to have a Page 3 Girl each day to improve their ratings?

I do both those things Capt Spock…

But if we were *truly* a local town, Then I would know the postmans name, and be able to run a tab at the pub.

Maybe it’s something of a Canberra thing – being the “Nation’s Capital” an’ all, feeling the power.

The CT thinks it must present as a national tribune, international even. Local matters just don’t, well, matter.

A bit like the local mayor and his delusions of grandeur and a desire to be a world statesman.

The local mayor and local paper doing what local mayors and local papers do in country towns – wouldn’t that be good!