[LINK] Online news no death knell for newspapers, report says

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:58 PM 10/08/2009, Paul Bolger wrote:
>When I first moved to Sydney in the early 80s the SMH was a crappy,
>uninspiring, paper. It got better for a bit. I suspect some of these
>proprietors have an overinflated idea of their publications' position
>as an 'institution' in their city. Make the wrong move, Fairfax, and
>you'll be last week's bird cage liner.

And their cross of stories from SMH in The Age Online is also getting 
a bit of a turn off. Padding? You click on an interesting story 
headline and ends up it's in Sydney or somewhere else in NSW. Not 
interested most of the time, especially the crime type stuff or 
traffic accidents. Filler. If it were in Victoria, maybe of interest 
because of the implications for road safety, govt policy re roads and 
police, etc. And I really don't care what the Premier of NSW has 
screwed up. Tell me more about Victoria, please.

They also say they have blogs on the Technology page. Only 2 seem to 
be updated. One hasn't posted for months. Again, filler.

Jan



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