Tim Blair

So, it's the Silly Moaning ... what, exactly?

Prof?

The Margoyle, Leunig et al better start scanning the boards at Centrelink- I feel Fairfax could be in for a little good-natured bloodletting.

You might be on the money, Habib. Word is that Hilmer's departure might be linked to his refusal to greenlight the board's preferred replacement for Michael Gawenda at The Age. More on this later.

Surprising... the Fairfax papers remain Australia's finest. Leunigs cool, Andrew Bolt isn't given a forum to spout his stupidity, Scott Burchill (my esteemed lecturer) et al have a great space for rational, educated argument...

By jeez, maybe we should ask Rupert to take it over...? Then at least I could know what our local celebs and models think about everything.

Yep, that'd be cool...

australia's finest most unread 'newspapers'

first they wanted to buy the trading post for classified gold - without the complication of journalism

then telstra wanted to buy them

confusion?

not in the boardroom - it's agreed - the editorial sucks big time

it's a newspaper company without credible newspapers

Tim Blair for Fairfax CEO!

Surely the next CEO of Fairfax will have more of an idea than Fred.

I'm sure the next CEO will go through the joint like a dose of the salts - poor performance and falling circulations will not last.

They have to produce a paper that people want to actually read rather than the shit thats currently served up.

Getting of the track, what qualifications does Margit have to be called a political editor - or is it just a case of finding a peanut to whinge on endlessly about the federal government day after day after day.

I would have thought that as a political editor she would have tried to cover a variety of political issues, god knows there's a story or 20 in the state of NSW, with the hospitals, trains, the Roozendaal clause.

But wait a minute, I forgot that Labor is in power.

Surely Margit doesn't have an agenda. No silly me.

Neil Mitchell on 3AW this morning denied rumours he was to be appointed editor of The Age, claiming he was happy in his present talkback job. Of course, subsequent offers could change that. I reckon Geelong lad Garry Linell should get the gig and Tim could take his job at The Bulletin. But as was said earlier, more on this later.

Leunigs cool

Define cool?

If cool means "idiotic dribbling moron". Then yes, I agree Leunig is cool.