Some people would take it as a complement

At the moment there’s a corporate fight for board control of The West Australian newspaper. It is between the incumbent directors and a Kerry Stokes led new group of directors.

I’m not going to weigh into the discussion as I have have never read the publication nor do I live in in W.A or know their media scene. Though I must admit I loved this quote by Australia’s richest man, Andrew Forrest, attacking the paper…

“If The West Australian continues to have a declining readership and a blog-style to its editorial, then we will definitely have a second newspaper on our doorsteps taking advantage of that gap.”

My first thoughts were that if their editorial and op-ed columns really are ‘blog-style’ then maybe ’tis a forward thinking and magnificent publication that doesn’t need to be fixed. Anyway, it made me laugh when I read that this morning so thought I should share it.

Also, if you were someone that like me would have taken the attack as a complement then you should probably forget about ‘blog-style’ and check out the real thing with fine Perth reporting occurring through citizen journalists at PerthNorg.