The boss of the SMH won’t talk to the SMH
While nobody at the Sydney Morning Herald has covered themselves in glory over the departure of columnist Mike Carlton, it does strike Dr Mumbo as a tad ironic that the newspaper’s own editor-in-chief Darren Goodsir was “unavailable for comment” to his own reporter Megan Levy, while Carlton was happy to talk.
You can say many, many things about the editor-in-chief of SMH’s rival The Australian Chris Mitchell, but at least he’s never been accused of being unavailable for comment in one of his paper’s own stories. Ever.