Former Naracoorte resident launches local newspaper after ACM ‘walked away from our community’
A former resident of the South Australian town of Naracoorte has launched a local newspaper to replace the Naracoorte Herald.
Michael Waite, who now lives in America, said he felt driven by Australian Community Media (ACM) to launch The Naracoorte Community News. Waite and a small team worked on the title to turn it from idea to print in three weeks.
Waite says ACM ‘walked away’ from Naracoorte Photo: Kate Hill
Bloody fantastic. It would be great to see this kind of initiative taken up throughout Australia, further loosening the stranglehold the loathsome Murdochs have on our media that has allowed them to create and spread propaganda, hate, bigotry and division, to subvert policy and cynically influence public opinion while lining their obscenely wealthy pockets.
ACM isn’t the Murdochs. The Australian is the main Aussie title with the remit you’ve given, and few people actually read it. The News tabloids take it up to a lesser extent, and people read them, but I don’t think this paper will be displacing the Tiser very much.
Nine, The Guardian, Eric Beecher and Morry Schwartz are fighting the fight you refer to.
Let’s hope the Naracoorte bunch have a prescription that works. Everyone wants to see local newspapers survive.