Dear Spin Crew
I represent a team of a few disgruntled journos... 500 to be precise. Please don't mention the name of our paper on air but to give you a hint we are the only printed daily broadsheet in Melbourne with a banner saying 'The Age' across the top. We need to be discreet about our problem with management so we have decided to go on strike. We're having to come out and tell everyone because no one really noticed that we were missing. The paper has still been coming out but put together by management cutting and pasting stuff from the net and overseas news sources. Same big paper you can't read on the train, can't fit on the breakfast table and can't carry on Saturdays without a forklift. So, if they seem to be able to do without us we better make a noise about it and hope it gets reported in the other metropolitan daily. To top it off they decided to sack the Editor as well. We thought this was a smart move as he has been able to turn the paper around in the last few years by increasing advertising and daily readership. So, Spin Crew, we need to know what we can do to get the public's sympathy and get them behind our cause? We know our paper uses more trees than any other daily newspaper in Australia. We know that less people are reading newspapers these days. We know that the diversification of the media is making our job less relevant. We know that people think we're a pinko, union-loving, left wing rag. But we think it's reasonable for the directors of Fairfax (sorry, don't mention that name!!) that the directors and shareholders of the company should lose money hand over fist and go down kicking and screaming with the rest of us. What do you think?
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