“Age staff are passionate about their masthead and their readers, and are disappointed that the managers of the company appear willing to sacrifice quality journalism for the sake of the bottom line.” Michael Bachelard, Senior Journalist with The Age, quoted by the Herald Sun in a story about the decision by Age journalists to strike tomorrow.
Age staff should not be disappointed. There has been evidence for at least two years of the managers sacrificing quality for the sake of the bottom line. One only has to look at their selling of ad space to cover editorial content and their own masthead for this evidence. Maybe the Age journalists only realised when their jobs were put on the line. the reality is that their jobs were on the line the first time a headline or story was covered with one of those post it ads I have gone on about here for two years.