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September 17, 2008

Home affairs

By Grey Cardigan

The abandonment of editions and the move to overnight printing by gutless regional newspaper managements who have betrayed their core readership is having serious consequences beyond the appalling ABC figures.

A lady of my acquaintance, who happens to be the wife of the editor of a middling regional daily, tells me: “I’m in a state of shock at the moment because his paper has started printing overnight, so instead of leaving home at 6.15am he’s now here until about 8.30 – wanting food and conversation and getting in the way while I’m shouting at the children. Nightmare.”

And so the collateral damage spreads …

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