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Guest
08-12-2003, 11:29 AM
Wondering what news sites you guys viist for Australian News specifically in Melbourne?

What radio stations are good to listen to?

I was thinking of getting The Age yearly to stay up to date but what good net alternatives are there?
[wtf]trauma
08-12-2003, 05:18 PM
I go to:

www.theage.com.au
www.news.com.au
www.google.com.au news page
onslaught
08-12-2003, 06:32 PM
I go to www.heraldsun.com.au/footy

and www.realfooty.com.au

for news.. theage.com.au and abc.net.au/news

radio... 774 / 3LO ABC local
Spiros
09-12-2003, 07:06 AM
I go to

www.theage.com.au
www.abc.net.au/news

I've heard the google news is good...

Can't trust the Herald...

I only wish The Age had the herlad format which would make it readable easier....
[wtf]trauma
09-12-2003, 08:41 AM
Agreed, if The Age came in a smaller sized paper like Herald Sun it would be much better.
[WTF]hakenspit
09-12-2003, 05:22 PM
errr herald is in that tabloid format due to the iq of the average reader where as the age has readers of higher iq therefor has longer columns/sentences
Spiros
10-12-2003, 07:26 AM
It's funny how you would see executives clearing out their whole desk just to find space for this paper.... seeing these people that earn high salaries bend over backwards just to read this paper so they can be part of the 'higher iq' community...
[WTF]hakenspit
10-12-2003, 05:44 PM
ROFL gather spiros reads the herald ;)

Was something we learnt in 3 unit english though makes sense the heralds kinda like the news in brief with lotsa crap feel good stories very little substance
Guest
11-12-2003, 07:21 AM
I read 'The Age' online thankfully....

:)

The paper itself seems pretty small... If the advertisements were taken out, it would be quite small!!

If it were being produced in the tabloid format, I think it would be the same thickness. This assumes the advertisements have been removed!
onslaught
11-12-2003, 04:14 PM
Look for a trial edition of the Age coming out in "tabloid" size as well as the broadsheet size we know.
Spiros
12-12-2003, 10:04 AM
Hmm,

Havn't heard of any trial edition coming out?

Unless your reffering to the A2 Magazine which comes with the newspaper. Other than that, I can't find any information on their being a trial edition??
Spiros
12-12-2003, 11:10 AM
Well, the official word from The Age is they will continue with broadsheet for a WHILE now.... No word on introducing it into the tabloid format!
[wtf]trauma
13-12-2003, 06:44 AM
Michael Gawenda (not sure of spelling) on either 3LO with John Faine, or 3AK with Phil Cleary said that they would look at releasing a tabloid size copy of the Age, after a US paper (cant rmeember each one) decided to produce the same paper in both formats, and would experiment with it as a limited run in Melbournes inner-city.
[wtf]trauma
13-12-2003, 06:46 AM
from memory.. I think he also said that an Adelaide paper had made a transition from broadsheet to tabloid exclusively, and found that their readership went up, but they couldnt really rate that as a good example because adelaide was a one-paper town (is that true?)
[wtf]trauma
13-12-2003, 06:46 AM
oops.. the last two posts are from [WTF]onslaught.

and this one too!
Spiros
13-12-2003, 07:27 AM
Might be true...

I emailed The Age and they responded by telling me arn't thinking of any tabloid editions as yet... well not for a while...

But that could always change I guess.... It always relies on the readers so if they want it and there is a demand big enough... then it should happen