Did you know several high-profile reporters have recently left The Australian? Former Oz journo Amanda Meade noted the departures in her regular column for The Guardian last week, leading to a furious denunciation in the Oz‘s media diary on Monday.
This morning, Oz media editor Sharri Markson tweeted a photo of the email her editor sent Meade about the departures, claiming Meade had skewed the facts.
The funny thing is, that email bears a startling similarity to Marskon’s own report on the affair.
Take this line, from Oz managing editor Helen Trinca’s email:
In Media Diary, that became:
Trinca wrote:
Markson wrote:
And this:
Became this:
Curious, isn’t it?
Is Crikey really just journalism for journalists? I can’t think of anyone else who would think that this should be the top line editorial comment.
Am I alone in wondering what the problem is there? Its not exactly plagiarism.
In short, who cares? I suspect an almost negligible percentage of Crikey’s subscribers give a toss.
Sharri Markson is a young, rude, nasty little sh+t, as evidenced from her appearances on The Drum (ABC TV). Apart from the fact that she doesn’t even know how to write her own copy – what else is new?
Typical Ltd News cr+p!!
She’s not totally a trained galah – she can rearrange words?