Thread: Quality reporting....

Tell me something new, - I used to work there...

Recall impassioned discussion with a journo about his insistance on using tractless waste to describe a huge area of unknown, un-travelled desert country.

The book went to print, still describing that bushland's lack of boundries and surveyed alotments...

He mean't "no roads" or 'track-less', (Real Land Rover country)

"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" was the motto for some, many years ago.

Today, they disregard the adjective...

It`s a damn disgrace! Just about everyday there is a similar example of poor English displayed in that newspaper.

About a week ago they reported that some rort was just a "racquet" to extort money from people!

I stopped reading it in about 1994 because it was so bad! They also have a tradition of writing a report about a previous story without bothering to tell you what happened in the first place, so unless you read the paper every day and remember it all, you can't figure out what they're talking about.

WA is a real mess when it comes to the media.

A range of major National newspapers were supplied to the company, and the Production staff invariably pinched most of them as we came in on shift.
(The journos did'nt, - we think the words were too long for them!)

The best writer they have is Dean Alston. Cartoonist.

'The Australian' was always well-read.... even the crosswords were preferred.

"mounting police"

theres a section I may show interest in a transfer to....