The Murdoch Townsville Bulletin coverage of the School Strike 4 march in the city on September 20 inexplicably ran a photograph of the event in Brisbane . The Townsville march, involving hundreds of students, started on The Strand where the paper regularly sends a photographer to take snaps , often of visiting eye candy , for a weather story , so why did it not feature locals marching for a very worthy cause , part of a massive international news event ?
The paper often runs anti ALP stories and text messages in which the Queensland government is accused of only being interested in Brisbane and the south east of the state , plus recent crazy calls for a separate northern state to overcome claimed neglect of the area . Yet locals gather for a news event in Townsville and the local paper , with its we luv yuz all slogan , runs a pic from Brisbane !!!
It was stated this week in the lively online Townsville Magpie that a team from Murdoch headquarters, Sydney, recently came to Townsville to show the paper how to write stories , which gives the impression the local paper is being run by an antipodean rum corps , part of a large syndicated news machine. Is that why the front page and news treatment is starting to resemble the Sydney Telegraph , the subject of derision by Shaun Micaleff in the ABC's Mad as Hell ?
Other local news stories , mitt pix, the Bulletin misses out on are many . There is Townsville's drunken former post office tower clock , now The Brewery building , which has been malfunctioning for aeons , even noticed by clock watching British television presenter Tony Robinson when he strolled through the Queen City of the North some years ago .
Our Shipping Reporter took this recent arty shot of one of the tipsy clock faces , showing the wrong time , naturally . A great advertisement for the city. Warming to the subject of missed photo opportunities , the Shipping Reporter insisted the paper's repeated failure to pick up the neglect of war memorials in this garrison city should be included in the list .
In particular, he mentioned the Victory in the Pacific Memorial Fountain , just down the road from the Townsville Bulletin office .The truth is that not only the Bulletin but other media outfits , somehow , have not picked up these stories
And then there is poor old Billy Bombax , the Giant of Northern Sustainability , in Anderson Park , whose limbs and even his face have been removed in ghastly operations , without the media twigging.
