I don't know the Macdairmid poem alas.
I remember walking into the Forest Lodge hotel on a warm day and it was the
Sun newspaper I think. For one moment the world seemed to be a place I
understood!
C
On 4/2/05 9:17 AM, "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
> That's about right. The parochialism of the Australian press still amazes
> me, all the same (the same everywhere, but still). Your memory of the
> Dransfield banner (can it really be true?) reminds me of that Macdiarmid
> poem about newspaper headlines and poetry, which naturally I can't remember,
> although it's pretty funny.
>
> Best
>
> A
>
> On 3/2/05 10:47 AM, "Chris Mansell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> A friend who worked on the foreign desk of a major broadsheet worked out the
>> equivalences for appearing on the front page of her paper: something like 1
>> Australian = 2 Americans = 5 Brits = ......5 000 Bangladeshis ....= 6 000
>> Africans =... Ie if only one Australian died in an international incident
>> it was on the front page, but 6000 Africans would have to work hard to make
>> it and might end up as a small item on page 24. I'm thinking that there
>> would be subdivisions among those categories: eg 1 rich Australian sportsman
>> = 15 non-rich Australian sportswoman = any number of Aboriginal children
>> etc. Though sometimes there are glitches. When Dransfield died I remember
>> one afternoon paper had on their posters POET DIES. I can't have dreamt
>> this.
>> chris
>
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
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