NEWS FLASH: Examiner in damage control mode, pulls out the big gun

Phew! It's been a big week at the Daily Examiner. First, it was its chief-of-staff. Then, it was its media sales manager. Now, its big gun, general manager Judy Lewis, has thrown herself into the fray and added her two bob's worth.

Gee, there must be some interesting discussions had around the water cooler at the Examiner. Wouldn't you just love to be a fly-on-the-wall. It'd be worth an admission price to get a ring side seat there.

However, the main protagonists, Howard and Smajstr, are based in separate locations, with the former in Grafton and the latter in Yamba. Perhaps they'll have to settle their differences with a duel at dawn at a neutral venue. Choice of weapon ... pistols or pens?

Credit: Thanks, Daily Examiner! 

PS: This reader is looking forward to the next instalment of this mini drama series.

The paper hasn't provided so much entertainment for a long time.

Dissent in the Examiner camp ... looks like it's an attempt to balance the ledgers

Monday's Daily Examiner carried an opinion piece ("Poker faced gambling") written by staffer Tim Howard about "the smell from a putrefying mix of self-righteousness and self-interest emanating from a loud group of people who turn out to be in a minority".

Howard was referring to "misinformation (being) spread by the club and gaming industry" in relation to proposed poker machine tax reforms.

Well, didn't that set the cat among the (stool) pigeons in the club industry. The usual suspects from local clubs hastily put pen to paper and wrote letters to the editor of the Examiner so Wednesday's paper carried letters from the general managers of Grafton District Services Club and Yamba Golf & Country Club and the CEO of Yamba Bowling and Recreation Club.

But, then to balance the books, yesterday's Examiner carried a letter to the editor penned by a colleague of Howard at the paper, Peter Smajstr, the paper's media sales manager.

And, just so everyone knows, Peter backs the clubs, but wants to assure readers that it's just his opinion, just as Tim's piece was Tim's opinion and not that of The Daily Examiner.

It seems the last people the paper wants to get offside are its advertisers. 

Source: Daily Examiner

Bangarra: 22 years of celebrating culture

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Fire - A Retrospective (2009)

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About the Bangarra Dance Company

Teh Big Gra complains

“Graham Young is chief editor and the publisher of On Line Opinion. He is a writer, and a former vice-president and campaign chairman of the Queensland Liberal Party.”

Teh Big Gra is also listed prominently in Google’s search index:

Gra is also a regular writer for The Australian - a national newspaper with a circulation of 130,000 plus.

But he’s afraid, very afraid, that he is being shunned and silenced by two (I repeat, two) members of the blogotariat.

RORFL!