HAG, Media Reporter
Well Hag certainly got that one right: Australian story … Well almost completely right. The cost of Rupe’s You Beaut new Hobart press is actually $32 million, not $30 million.
Which makes it all the more important that Rupe’s grand new strategy to save the (newspaper) world works. Judging by yesterday’s soft, four page advertising-heavy wraparound, he’s up against it. It was all predictable soft-sell Tassie-leads-the-universe top-down journalism imposed by the wise old heads of News Ltd (read, Luddites) thoroughly discombobulated by the world’s eager rush into new media. Tasmanian Times has a particular fascination with this debate: HERE. And there’s a nice new slash from Crikey Publisher Eric Beecher today: HERE
But back to the Oz. Today we have a follow from the Australian’s stand-out Tasmanian journo Matthew Denholm on the great Food Bowl Fantasy:
MATTHEW DENHOLM
TASMANIAN Premier David Bartlett claims he can help deliver food security for the entire nation, with a $400 million plan to “transform” Tasmania into the country’s “food bowl”.
“As the Murray-Darling dries up, Tasmania has a massive opportunity here,” he told The Australian. “Australia’s food security as a nation is extremely important. A nation that can’t feed itself has got some troubles, and Tasmania is part of the solution.”
Tasmania already has a strong reputation as a producer of clean, green niche agricultural products, from truffles and cool-climate wines to saffron and cheese.
Mr Bartlett’s food bowl concept is far more ambitious, however, aiming to make Tasmania the country’s “strongest food growing region”. Read more HERE
Matt’s article is appropriately and predictably questioning, but for the real prick into the latest Bartlett Thought Bubble, read John Lawrence on Tasmanian Times: HERE
