Economy
‘New era for the Mercury … ‘
The Mercury, that inter-generational champion of the state and esteemed benefactor of journalists, freight services, humble newsagents and expensive state-of-the-art printing facilities, heroically playing “a fundamental role in their day to day survival” (every bit as much as our nurses, paramedics, carers and diesel power plant hire companies ), boldly base-jumps into the future, ensuring the sale of digital freedom, justice and enlightenment to audiences for generations to come (for an as yet undisclosed monetary consideration), along with selling said audiences to a new era of digital advertisers, ever so much more in touch with your inner likes, aspirations and online browsing habits.
“We believe our people have value” they say, and indeed they do; doubly so.
Rumour also has it that Rupert ‘Hard Paywall’ Murdoch is finally determined to put an end to the disreputable poachers and thieves tapping his “river of gold” (reportedly hidden behind a large boulder at the bottom of an uncharted sink-hole in a remote arid region somewhere in Arizona, Nevada, or possibly even South Australia, according to entirely speculative and mysterious unnamed sources).
‘”They have got this very clever business model,” he said.’
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Mick Kenny lives in Tasmania, after a varied career as a roustabout, fruit picker and agronomy support worker, milking the odd cow along the way, before training and working in the community sector, occasionally dabbling in web design and local media, more recently undertaking studies including crime prevention, community safety and environmental regulation. He thinks all Tasmanians should get free car ferry travel at least once a year, so as to enjoy an affordable road trip about the big island, and sometimes misses hot summers, flat open roads and peaceful escapes to the soothing currents of the Murray-Darling River system.
• Mike in Comments: “…award winning investigative journalism which helped overhaul decades of archaic and secretive operations among some of our key councils and exposed widespread problems with everything from exorbitant expense keeping to basic accounting.” Don’t they mean that they have helped a lobby group backed by a group of wealthy property developers to use any excuse to create a one-stop-bribery-shop-super-council that will approve anything and everything … and the first the public will know about it is when they find out that their new neighbours plan on building a replica of the world trade centre right next door to them.