Sans Masthead

Journalism , Opinion Sep 30, 2011 No Comments

A couple of years ago, I was heavily reprimanded by the managing editor of The Australian for using Twitter to comment on the stories I was covering. We had a fundamental disagreement about the value of the social networking service. I genuinely thought that my tweets from press conferences and disaster zones were supplementing the experience of reading the newspaper in print, and she genuinely thought they were giving readers an excuse to avoid doing exactly that. Among other things, she said, I was acting selfishly, putting my own interests before that of the masthead, and that in acting selfishly I was also acting against my own best interests.

“Do you really think that ‘Matthew Franklin’ means as much to readers as ‘Matthew Franklin of The Australian‘?” she asked.

NF Cure capsules increase semen volume, which icks.org viagra sale uk is too much. You should stop smoking and ensure sound sleep. rx tadalafil These pills can either be testosterone drugs or PDE5 inhibitors like viagra samples from doctor , Sidenafil, Lavitra, etc. There can be one or a hundred products on the generic levitra 10mg market, but none of them can stop our hair from thinning and falling out as we age. Her use of Matthew Franklin’s name seemed strange, given that the paper’s chief political correspondent was not the one being reprimanded, though the fact that she didn’t quite know who she was talking to didn’t necessarily render her question invalid.

I don’t think she would have liked my answer, though, had she given me time to give it.

Read the full article on the Emerging Writers’ Festival website.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.