Oz tells readers: We were breaking the news while Fin was on a break
The Australian has made the most of The Australian Financial Review’s skeleton Christmas and new year publishing shedule, labelling itself as “The national daily newspaper”.
After its last normal daily edition on December 22, the Fin published a single edition on December 28, before returning to normal publishing today. The AFR is published by Fairfax Media while The Australian is published by News Limited.
The Oz today published a list of business stories it had covered “while The Australian Financial Review took a break”.
Yesterday, The Australian printed a list of the two newspapers publishing schedules, telling readers:”We break the news. The Fin just takes a break.”
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Is that the very same Aus whose Monday media section knocked off for Christmas at the end of November and won’t be back until after Australia day?
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Another pathetic attempt for the Australian to try and get one over the Fin. The irony is no-one at the Fin gives a toss about anyone at the Australian. Keep trying.
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Desperate measures when you have to place an ad in your own newspaper criticising the competition. I don’t know about you but I like the way the Fin does not even bother responding to the Oz’s petty attention seeking behaviour. Reinforcing the Oz will always be a little bit ‘b’ grade. Maybe their new years resolution should be focus on the stories and stop mud slinging, just saying.
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“I like the way the Fin does not even bother responding to the Oz’s petty attention seeking behaviour.”
Except it did, in today’s paper, running through a couple of scoops that weren’t.
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Not often you see an ad in the Australian.
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This ranks up there with Oz radio presenters exiting en masse, taking consecutive vacation weeks off at a time during key ratings periods. If the station can do without you for four weeks, the audience can do without you for 52.
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How pathetic.
I feel sorry for the Australian if this is what they have to succumb to.
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Self praise is no recommendation
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Maybe it wasn’t to remind the readers! Maybe it was to remind the advertisers!
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Its the neo-con way. Focus attention on what your enemies are doing (usually adding your own spin of BS for good measure).
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The funniest part of all that is the AFR’s apparent adoption of the Oz as its benchmark. Having hauled back a coterie of bloviators they are soon to give us one of those Oz chestnuts: the policy agenda. With gradings no doubt. Thank you Lord Stutch.
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Whats occurs in the media industry in january would hardly qualify as news.
The oz biz section has been getting one over the fin for quite a while and the fin is worried hence the re- hiring of mr clegg
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We must all remember that the Australian is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and if we don’t engage on cue in a five-minute hate, the licence to wear black and hold up traffic with our bicycles may be withdrawn.
Come on, guys, get with the program.
On a serious note, the Fin has been showing signs of improvement (when it shows up on the newsstands at all, that is). When they axe tingle and re-do the opinion section with an eye to people who invest and believe in markets, it could be a contender once again.
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A $3 the AFR is way overpriced
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“When they axe tingle and re-do the opinion section with an eye to people who invest and believe in markets, it could be a contender once again.”
You mean get rid of their most popular columnist? Yeah, that sounds commercially sensible. Sure.
As to the opinion section, yesterday’s op-ed pages feature John Hewson and Peter Anderson from the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Are these people who don’t believe in markets?
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The enlightened one might like to research his subject. I believe Tingle is one the more experienced markets writers in journalism, even though she ended in Canberra. And perhaps he/she would prefer some of the glorious op-ed of the Wall Street Journal style: the sort of thinking that gave us uninhibited debt fuelled investment banking and derivative mania?
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Only the loser bothers to take shots like this- the clearly better paper (the Fin) has better things to do….
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