Tim Blair

In the Fairfax press this is the most horrible thing it's possible for any civilised person to contemplate.

This, on the other hand, is a mere curiosity, related with a yo-ho play-on-words headline.

Precious 'Age' types deserve whatever they get. However, I hope the public more generally will get a tough journo from the old school. Left or right, the aim should be to do away with the present sanctimonious schtick.

I was listening to Neil Mitchell this morning, and I think you can actually see him swing to the left.

He was calling the Iraqi prisoner abuse a "crisis for George W Bush" and kept repeating the demand that Bush formally apologise.

How foolish is that ? Lots of people abuse people from different nationalities, and never before has the leader of a country apologised for a similar incident.

The right outcome is for Bush to discipline those soldiers involved.

Tim - time for a new poll !

Who will the next editor of The Age be ?

* Neil Mitchell ?
* Michael Moore ?
* John Pilger ?
* Richard Neville ?

There should be no Age. No one is permitted to read anything but the Holy Quran.

AKBAR THE GREAT

Tim, who cares? You journos love all this stuff, but most Australians couldn't give a fuck. In Sydney, the majority of people don't even read newspapers. The writ of the SMH doesn't extend beyond the eastern and northern suburbs. That's obvious from its content: the writers have probably never journeyed west further than Ultimo!

Same comment probably applies to the Age.

If the ABC, SBS,and the Fairfax papers all went down with the Titanic, nobody would miss them.

Vote # 1 for Neil Mitchell editing the Age!

A little colour & attitude, and a man who refuses to subscribe to the playground delineations of political stance that occur on, ahem, some blogs.

Actually, could he host Media Watch in his spare time?

Recently, 3AW's breakfast team Ross Stevenson and John Burns were listening to Sly of the Underword (a very good Age journalist) describe the robbery of a milk bar in Dallas (Melbourne suburb) which had been caught on video.

The replay showed the robber quickly crouching behind the counter as a customer came in, picked up The Age, laid a coin on the counter and walked out, completely unaware of the robbery taking place.

'That just doesn't ring true,' came the reply.

'Why, do you think the customer would have noticed the robber?'

'No, but since when does anyone in Dallas read The Age?'

but newspaper talk about newspaper issues often turns out to incorrect.

As opposed to newspaper talk about damn near anything else.