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So many familiar faces and voices disappearing at once. I hope that they can transfer their skills into other aspects of their career.
Some of the familiar voices have had the courage to report from the Middle East be embedded with and report from "the other side". I hope that skill can be transferred to the corporate world.
There is one thing that I feel uncomfortable, based on the names in this news item, is that women are over-represented. This is especially so when women are encouraged to contribute to the workforce.
To those in the commercial media typically saying "....we're getting cut....why aren't there cuts to the ABC....." that may be a valid statement. At the same time, with cuts to newspaper and the closure of commercial TV bureaus in rural towns, there is no news from these rural areas. Such a macabre request for solidarity by the commercial media commentators has the consequence of no news being reported at all.
Thank you,
Anthony of sad Belfield
Dear editor,
Notwithstanding the corrections for the reasons for the departure of Eleanor Hall and Sophie McNeill, I still hold that (i) there was an over-representation of women leaving the news department, and still hope those that were made redundant are able to transfer their skills elsewhere.
A skills transfer may not necessarily mean that the next job is necessarily journalistic.
Thank you,
Anthony of hopeful Belfield