The Herald Sun is also a very one-sided paper. Where are the complaints about its commentary team? Like, for example, Jill Singer, who would fit in very comfortably at The Age. The range of opinion in HS is generally wider than The Age, if obviously more right-of-centre (but The Age really is the most left-wing major paper in Oz).
As for Tony Parkinson, I wouldn't describe him as conservative particularly, more just sceptical of received opinion. And he does very much stand out from The Age's in-house commentators.
(The people who I know who complain most about The Age actually do read it.)
Faris' comments about The Age being the most left-wing (major) paper in Oz is surely just descriptive and true. And his comment was that it was narrowing its range of in-house opinion by dropping Henderson, which is clearly true. The Age has a long history of not persisting with non-left commentators. As for outside writers, I would have thought that conservative and economically-liberal outside commentary was clearly a minority of such contributors to The Age.
Indeed, he seemed at lot less outraged by The Age being left-wing that much commentary on FoxNews from people on the left (who often do write as if they are outraged FoxNews exists).
There does sometimes does seem to be some snobbery involved, as if people want a broadsheet that is less left-wing rather than just reading the tabloid. Of, for that matter, reading the AFR (though that is more expensive), which does particularly well in Melbourne, presumably as a reaction to The Age.
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Re: Not what he says
Date: 2005-06-10 11:00 pm (UTC)Like, for example, Jill Singer, who would fit in very comfortably at The Age. The range of opinion in HS is generally wider than The Age, if obviously more right-of-centre (but The Age really is the most left-wing major paper in Oz).
As for Tony Parkinson, I wouldn't describe him as conservative particularly, more just sceptical of received opinion. And he does very much stand out from The Age's in-house commentators.
(The people who I know who complain most about The Age actually do read it.)
Faris' comments about The Age being the most left-wing (major) paper in Oz is surely just descriptive and true. And his comment was that it was narrowing its range of in-house opinion by dropping Henderson, which is clearly true. The Age has a long history of not persisting with non-left commentators. As for outside writers, I would have thought that conservative and economically-liberal outside commentary was clearly a minority of such contributors to The Age.
Indeed, he seemed at lot less outraged by The Age being left-wing that much commentary on FoxNews from people on the left (who often do write as if they are outraged FoxNews exists).
There does sometimes does seem to be some snobbery involved, as if people want a broadsheet that is less left-wing rather than just reading the tabloid. Of, for that matter, reading the AFR (though that is more expensive), which does particularly well in Melbourne, presumably as a reaction to The Age.