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So a few points, not so much of disagreement but of addition in the debate between @oz_f and @timdunlop over media and Dan Andrews and so on. (See their threads)
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If anyone was foolish enough to make me editor of anything, particularly a Melbourne paper, I would at this time of crisis be trying to find ways to explicitly embrace
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I had just put the finishing touches to a piece about the Dan Andrews pressers, which will run in @sundayage this weekend, when I tuned in to hear #credlin cross
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I'm getting tired of media saying we don't know what happened with hotel quarantine in Vic. Of course we must wait for the findings, and it is always possible somebody
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Reporters have told me that they are beseiged during these press conferences. Those who have their mobile numbers txt. Includes the boss, colleagues from i/state. colleagues from Canberra Press gallery
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Now the atmosphere around media in Vic is slightly less shouty, I'm going to say something about it. Perhaps we can now move beyond the binary of "all journalists suck"
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Yesterday (see thread) I Tweeted a story about residents of the Flemington and North Melbourne public housing towers not being moved to alternative accommodation, which community leaders feared put others
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A couple of reflections to kick off the day regarding language. The journalists following this thread may find this interesting. Others may tune out ...When @DanielAndrewsMP announced the hard lockdown
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Now to the bad. The communications effort with the residents has been, frankly, shit. And of course when you are trying just to make sure people are fed, I can
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I have just completed an interview with Mr Peter Hayes, principal of the St Brendans Primary School. He has 29 families from the school community, and 39 students currently in
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A couple of reflections after a weekend watching and speaking to residents on Victoria’s public housing estates. Not surprisingly, there is a diversity of views among residents ranging from fury,
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