You must be joking! Geraldine Nordfeldt and WIN

I tell ya – I’m over journalists who don’t reference the RiotACT for their stories suddenly posting when it suits them.

Geraldine was unfairly treated by WIN. When a journalist can’t ask a tough (yet legitimate) question of our Dear Leader without their employer pulling the pin, well… I guess you’re in Canberra!

I reckon Geraldine’s doing a great job at the CT.

PS – She’s good looking too! — I know you’re reading, Geraldine 😉

It’s not a large leap considering the attention she gets here…

@ post 14.

That’s actually not who I was thinking of… but quite hilarious that she’s obviously the first that springs to your mind.

Also, Jessica wrote the original story on Geraldine’s shabby treatment at WIN. She now works from the Press Gallery and Geraldine filled the vacant Today column.

Its me, Ricci, Mr Magoo. Geraldine covered a number of stories that I was involved with over the years, including when she was with WIN and the CT. I found her to be straightforward and professional, unlike many other people in the media (particularly the previous Editor of th CT).

Having worked with (and against) media over many, many years, I am quite happy with the way she operated, at least in the areas I was covering.

A line-dancing horse is a page-one pic all day long.

Maybe we should flog the line-dancing horse?

Um .. I’m not over it yet. I’ve never heard of her before.

Then again, the last time I read the Canberra Times they were featuring a line-dancing horse on the frickin’ cover.

#10 posted by Jim Jones
(Rabble Rouser)
15:49, 1 Apr 2009
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Meh. Gripes and grudges aside, I find her column infinitely more interesting to read than that of her vapid blonde predecessor.

Who was that?

Nothing like flogging a dead horse.
She is Jessica Wright, works at the CT, used to write the Today column, has riled Rioters more than once. Cue much wailing and criticising. Are we over this yet?

ricci said :

Geraldine is just fine. She is not the type to hold grudges and as far as I am concerned she is quite professional in the way she operates, both when she was at WIN and now at the CT.

I doubt her boss would agree after a nasty incident involving Geraldine and her old work a few weeks back.

ricci said :

Geraldine is just fine. She is not the type to hold grudges and as far as I am concerned she is quite professional in the way she operates, both when she was at WIN and now at the CT.

Ricci or is that Geraldine????

Geraldine is just fine. She is not the type to hold grudges and as far as I am concerned she is quite professional in the way she operates, both when she was at WIN and now at the CT.

PreciousLilywhite said :

Meh. Gripes and grudges aside, I find her column infinitely more interesting to read than that of her vapid blonde predecessor.

Who was that?

Bitter?
No way. (coughs)

Can’t say I blame her.

Meh. Gripes and grudges aside, I find her column infinitely more interesting to read than that of her vapid blonde predecessor.

My memory of the ‘defamation’ was that she was quoting out of the report. I think the defamation threat was more about keeping the deck organised just before an election.

Perhaps it’s the Negus effect – leaving commercial television suddenly frees the real journalist that’s been imprisoned within. Do REAL journalists even use the word ‘scoop’ anymore? It’s a bit gee whillikers, Mr Wilson, isn’t it?

Where’s Jimmy Olsen these days anyway?

I think her picture looking good on the back page would have had more to do with that.

And having the network of contacts needed to do that back page gig.

Geraldine Nordfeldt has held a grudge with WIN ever since she wrote a rather defamatory piece involving the Government last year which led to her demotion and the sacking of the then Chief of Staff.

The Canberra Times got the scoop on this scandal after Nordfeldt herself leaked the story to them. You have to wonder what else Nordfeldt leaked to the Times during her period at WIN?

Maybe this is how she got her position as their back page fluff piece writer?

Sounds a bit rich coming from a newspaper which can’t even spell the word “Gallipoli”.

Was this the CT’s April Fool’s Day joke?

Perhaps Geraldine’s just playing the joker, and it’s all fun and games between her and her old work colleagues. But I suspect there’s more bitterness to the relationship these days…