Well the only semi-decent paper in the country has decided to cut it’s staff by 30%. That’s 550 journalists and editorial staff who will no longer have a job. Needless to say this has two pretty significant problems.
Firstly, no one likes to see people loose jobs. Especially as unnessisarily as this.
Secondly, it’s going to make the quality of the paper decline further. Then where are people like myself going to turn for their news? The Oz?
So I urge you all to go to http://www.fairgofairfax.org.au/petition/ and sign the petition, then send a letter to the editor at letters@theage.com.au
(cross posted at Darkness At Noon)
George Darroch Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pmVisit George Darroch
Shit, the media will be in a pretty sorry state if this goes ahead, with a flow on to the national discourse. We’ll all just read the internet instead I suspect.