If anyone is wondering how The Age and the SMH will manage with fewer journo, they need look no further than the Canberra Times, writes Crikey publisher Eric Beecher.

Crikey publisher Eric Beecher and Melbourne's 3AW morning host Neil Mitchell enjoyed a lively exchange today.

Don Bradman ... Kevin Rudd ... Fairfax ... Macquarie Bank ... Woolworths ...

Fairfax slashes jobs, Jaspan sacked ... Kevin Rudd ... thanking our Olympians ... Turnbull and Costello ...

There's an intense debate about the future of journalism vibrating across the Australian media -- except in the media owned by the company which ignited the debate in the first place, writes Eric Beecher.

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Yesterday, the senior management of the Fairfax newspaper group filed a story in a language their best editors would never publish: the language of gobbledegook, writes Crikey publisher Eric Beecher.

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At least with yesterday's staff cuts, Fairfax has finally come clear about its corporate priorities: profit. By Crikey publisher Eric Beecher.

Beecher on privacy law implications ... Watch out for this man on the roads ... Book blurbs for cash ... Accessing p-rn, a how to ... World news, schworld news ... Joe 'prick' Lieberman ... New animation technology is spookily real ... Google goes political ... Olbermann's getting old

Isn't it legitimate to ask whether the media is on solid ground when it continues to rage against all and any kind of privacy limitations, asks Crikey publisher Eric Beecher.

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The fight for press freedom is crucially important, but it becomes a caricature when it is predicated on sleazy stories that festoon tabloids like the News of the World and its stablemates, writes Crikey publisher Eric Beecher.

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