18 March 2013

Woroni awash with cash?

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Had to laugh seeing this. A story in Woroni about changes to student accommodation at ANU, but the photograph included in the story is clearly not of anything at ANU nor in Canberra. It’s a stock photo from Shutterstock (thank you TinEye), where prices for downloads start at $49 and subscriptions start at $249/mth.

Given Woroni’s new custom built offices are directly opposite the Unilodges in ANU Exchange, they must have a healthy bottom line if it’s cheaper to buy an image online than point the camera out the front door.

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Woroni doesn’t even make good toilet paper!

Nothing surprises me at ANUSA anymore. I actually don’t think they have any idea how much money they have at all – especially when you consider that someone has ‘allegedly’ ripped them off to the tune of somwhere between $60-100 000, but they’re not really sure of the exact figure!

Never mind, I’ m sure it could never happen again……..

incredulousandridiculous6:03 am 19 Mar 13

This, by then way, is the same organisation which failed to uncover Victor White’s emulation of Craig Thomson across ANU, Inter Sports and Woroni itself.

Woroni’s staff are a world unto themselves. True enough, many of the editors and sub-editors are decent people. But a cross-section of them are unaccountable, arrogant hacks who operate not based on journalistic merit but ideology, self-aggrandisement, sycophancy, nepotism and ego-driven personal politics.

Sounds like the standard of Woroni hasn’t improved much if anything since the 1980’s, which was the last time I read it.

Unless they didn’t pay … which would be theft … which would mean a lot more than $49 in payment demand

Uh, like most companies or organizations the ANU would have a subscription to a photostock service through their media and communications team. Woroni wouldn’t be paying for this…

It is however incredibly lazy to not just go outside and take a photo.

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