What is happening at The Drum, now under the supervision of Young Chip? If the site manages two updates a day it is an oddity. On its homepage right this minute an entire slab of columns has not been updated for weeks. Now it is true that Tim Dunlop is a remarkable writer -- there are few like him, that's for sure -- but is his prose so not-to-be-missed that an article published on July 11 needs to be kept in the front window, perhaps in perpetuity?
Why is this happening, or not happening to be more accurate?
Could it be that Young Chip has imported the languid pace and timing of his former nice little earner at the Sydney Writers' Festival, which required little more than ordering in some flagon whites but once a year and, when the pressure was intense, putting little bits of cheese on sticks?
Or maybe Mark Scott has ordered Young Chip and The Drum to lie doggo, to not bring too much attention to one of the best arguments for de-funding the ABC since the cancellation of Bellbird.
Then again, perhaps it is the ABC's generous employee benefits package and the many opportunities it provides for not going to work.
After the knifing of Julia Gillard, there must surely be a certain withered someone locked for her own good in the attic and in need of Young Chip's psychiatric nursing and general geriatric care. No doubt the blanket baths must be more fun than a Tim Dunlop column, but what of the public's right to further updates on the sort of man Clementine Ford dreams will one day sweep her off her feet?
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Love the way Clemmie topped her article with a quote from a union student, only for it to be revealed the unioniste had ganked the quote.
ReplyDeleteThe Drum's almost stopped beating, Prof. It's only a heartbeat away from electoral disaster and some funding issues, I'd say. In all justice, let's hope that Granny in the attic will at least get some due care.
ReplyDeleteI guess most of the ABC are in a state of shock bordering on catatonia. The cold, hard reality has dawned on them that the halcyon days of the ABC are to be disrupted. Somebody is about to pull the brake cord on the ABC gravy train. Shock, horror.
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Clementines are quite tasty and juicy, and easily peeled:
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Cheers
This is the mistress of moral relativism who said we westerners are in no position to express any disdain of Muslim patriarchs who demand the genital mutilation of young girls. Why, what beastliness on our part has put us on the same level (or lower)?
ReplyDeleteApparently because some (adult) western women (freely) choose to undergo labiaplasty.
Only a brain marinated in the academic meringue of a Gender Studies degree could display such mental agility.