Ahhh…that makes sense. But surely they can put it in italics and brackets like every other publication.
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Along with a shift to the right-wing, the quality has seriously dropped at The Canberra Times…
It appears nobody bothered to look at this article (some basic editorial checking would’ve been nice) before clicking publish:
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It’s fine, no one in Canberra is reading it anyway. A once great paper, now totally irrelevant.
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It’s behind a strict paywall, and I would never pay for The Canberra Times. There are other sources of news in the ACT that are free.
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Hmm, I wonder if that coincided with ACM/Catalano ownership? 
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The leaning has noticeably shifted since Catalano bought it.
On the paywall; some of it can be easily avoided (cookie auto-delete & closing a browser tab after reading a couple of articles), but other stuff is subscriber-only.
I wouldn’t mind paying for quality journalism (and was surprised Fairfax didn’t get an electronic-only subscriber option up before Nine bought them), but the CT is no longer worth paying for.
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It appears ACM still have difficulty realising we’re not in the USA:
And were Daft Punk an Australian musical group? 
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It will compete against News Corp’s Escape website and Nine Newspapers’ Traveller website.
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Thanks for posting the article @JohnsonTV , I’m surprised it’s only the Bendigo & Wagga papers.
Not looked at the voices list for a while, surprised smaller papers weren’t required to be sold too.
Those two titles would be quite a hole in his network, larger markets, surely more profitable.
I would be happy to see them sold; the greater diversity, the better.
If the local ACM paper is indicative of what’s being output across the majority of their network, it must be costing them a fortune to produce what is lucky to be 12 to 16 pages - i’ve pondered whether a daily paper that is thinner than a section of shit tickets is better then a more substantive paper published every few days with a decent online presence for “breaking” stories
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Printed copies of The Armidale Express and Dungog Chronicle in NSW and the Goondiwindi Argus in Queensland will be back in circulation next week, along with the South Australian newspapers Coastal Leader and Flinders News.
ACM also announced the closures of websites of Wingham Chronicle and the Bellingen Courier-Sun in NSW, with content from Wingham Chronicle incorporated into that of Manning River Times.
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Australian Community Media has rewritten news articles regarding Brittany Higgins, deleting the names of staff in Scott Morrison’s office who attempted to dig up dirt on Ms Higgins and her family.
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Prime Media - ACM (WA Chess Investments) are the buyers - Catalano, Waislitz’s ACM creeps on Prime Media
Thanks, wrong code. I’ve also moved the post across.
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The Canberra Times journalist Andrew Brown tweeted this morning that he would be leaving the paper, to join AAP’s federal politics reporting team at Parliament House press gallery.
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