Monday, December 18, 2017

18 December 2018




Give a big mixed media daily welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald, the latest paper to become our unwitting subject. So there's the big surprise. This project will finish out the year in Australia, where we will explore both their big national papers (like the Morning Herald) as well as smaller, local fare. And we'll probably check back in with our old flame, The Los Angeles Times, because that old love never really dies now, does it? And, you know, for project continuity. Sexy, sexy project continuity.

Initial impression of the biggest and, by most accounts, most serious journalism endeavor going on down under: I'm pretty sure that the LA Times has not had the Myanmar Rohingya crisis featured in a big way on A1 above the fold. I've been reading about it piecemeal in other news sources, but this long form piece in the Herald is certainly an eye opener. And I get it on some level---it's not like it's been a slow news year in America---but it certainly drives home the importance of diversifying your news sources.

Oh, one last thing: December 17th did not actually exist. For me, that is. Flying over the international dateline will do that. Also, while I'm getting set up in my new, temporary Southern Hemisphere digs, drawings as presented might be rescanned and updated when I get home in the name of look continuity. Sexy, sexy look continuity.

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