Fagan and Crutcher out as News Limited changes editorial leadership in Queensland
Out: David Fagan
News Limited has announced that Queensland editorial director David Fagan and Courier Mail editor Michael Crutcher are to leave the company as part of a series of major changes to the company’s Queensland editorial leadership.
The company has not announced a replacement for Fagan, however, Chris Dore, currently editor of The Sunday Times in Perth will take up the editorship of The Courier Mail.
Gold Coast Bulletin editor Peter Gleeson will take over The Sunday Mail from Scott Thompson, who according to the News Limited statement has been offered “a newly created editorial role in Queensland which he is currently considering”.
Appalling that these people read of this in a newspaper first.
I can’t understand why they have chosen to change their QLD editorial team. It seems to me the Courier Mail actually sometimes comes out with some decent investigative journalism. Isn’t it their Sydney team they should be taking a long hard look at?
Let us hope that the incoming team does more to promote the cause of justice for Forgotten Australians in Queensland. Under the current editorial policy, outcomes for those whom society would rather forget are never mentioned, No doubt this is why we remain forgotten.
If Comrade Fagan was such an inspiration to Citizen Kim’s loyal band of toilers in Chairman Rupert’s northern workers’ paradise, why is he being shoved out the back door? Kimbo’s “bye bye, thanks for coming” notices get more and more bizarre in a gallows humour sort of way. You’d think he’d be better at them by now – he’s had a lot to write of late. Tough break for Fagan – he had ability.
One day, instead of these farewell emails which heap praise on the person who’s just been axed – to the extent where you have to think “If he/she was so amazing, why did you sack them?” – one day we will see an email which says “So-and-so has been doing sh*t work, really dropping the ball and just c*cking everything up. so we fired him. Now back to work, people, nothing else to see her.”
Dear moderator.Could you please let me know if you find my comment on Fagan’s departure from The Courier mail offensive,I would appreciate your feedback.Best wishes Tom O’Connor
Hi Tom,
Your comment was potentially libellous so wasn’t published.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella