Goodlinx – what Australia’s media and marketing bloggers are talking about today

Tim Burrowes

January 8, 2009 4:56

“Why do some people within the digital media world seem to have such contempt for newspapers? Is it because a load of them are wannabe print journalists that are pissed their endeavours aren’t covered by the mainstream print media? Possibly…”

From Laurel Papworth:

“I could keep blogging the print media demise. Number of newspapers closing, journalists being laid off, statistics and reports, diminished trust, diminished revenue, Citizen Rupert speeches, but there are those who insist we’re making it up, to propagate some kind of blogger war. Why ‘massive drop in newspaper ad revenue’ equals ‘WTF OMG you bloggers hate mainstream media’ I don’t know.”

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.