i dont no. its shitfull.

In the blogs? What do you expect. Blogs.

email them.

FIX THIS SHIT FAIRFAXY!

BLORGS!

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."

Its the articles not the blogs

CBF pops

They're probably publishing first and subbing later. Seems to be the new model.

thats very web 2.0 TBB.. in the meantime these 3 hour old articles make them look bad

I think they're subbing first because all the online articles (especially the long ones) have the hyphens in them - which would suggest they had laid them out for print before pushing the transcripts online. Either way it's pretty disappointing. I've also e-mailed them (yeah, I'm a grandpa) about their fucking annoyingly misleading punned up headlines...

The Age's subbing has always been scarily shit. Prior to leaving Oz I would read it primarily for the angst it would cause me.

Now, when I glance at the website I am regularly accosted by that annoying sex and city shit or jack marx talking about how smoking crack off Russell Crowe's perinaeum is a bad thing. And, of course, terrible, terrible subbing.

Interested in Tbb's opinion on quality of subbing at The Age over time .... always shit (my claim) or recent decline ??

serious recent decline on top of shit.

it's becoming more like who weekly every day

mostly just talk of celebrity couples

they've always been pretty shit with the grammar and punctuation. pretty much the whole time.

just showing my ignorance, but is melbourne a one paper town in terms of dailies?

.

i only wonder because perth is a one daily town, and it is perhaps the worst major daily in the countries. a vendetta against the labour government, an editor drunk on power, and the scariest and funniest letters section i have ever seen.

Interested in Tbb's opinion on quality of subbing at The Age over time .... always shit (my claim) or recent decline ??

What sister said: serious recent decline from a Grauniad-esque initial standard.

Yeah, and the Herald Sun is the standard-bearer of not just fine writing and editing, but also journalistic integrity and the upholders of balanced reporting. I'd rather have a few speling mitaks than be subjected to bigotry and lowest-common-denominator journalism.

one of my colleagues calls me a content provider. seeth

+e

but bit, i posted fairfax stuff in another thread thats now not being used.

i should just cut and paste the funnies.

- Story summarised
- Paragraphs too long
- Reader bewildered

^ ocelotl, best post ever.

- Chat chuffed

If you'd followed it with a Google Street View shot of your house, I would've appeared in front of your computer to shake both your hands.

Dang!

crikey's going to town...

''And at no point in their rambling, officious, jargon-riddled blamange of corporate cliches did the Fairfax CEO and Deputy CEO mention the word that was once most associated with their company.

Journalism.''

ugh. formatting &c.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

remind me, what were his crimes?

Big fuck-up today, with Vladimir Putin named as both president and prime minister of Russia in different places within the same article.

That's actually potentially not a fuck-up. He has, in fact, been both.

But he isn't now! Medvedev is later named as president. The fact that he's been both means it's almost more important to make the distinction now.

it's a fuck up. both quotes are contemporary, they name him as president at the start (wrong) and prime minister further down.

nice work subs and the journo who pulled it off the wires AND possible the journo who put it on the wires.

Also, in the same article, they had about 7 spelling mistakes and a repeated paragraph.

Sub-standard STRIKEBREAKER subbing!

SUCKY SCABS!

Poor The Age, fucking up all over the joint.