Conflict of interest

It must be a hard call for Fairfax Media’s striking editorial workforce. Their employer is in all sorts of financial trouble, so naturally they wish to make things even worse by withdrawing their labour for a week.

Yet the Budget is at hand, when all the dutiful groupthinkers are obliged to pontificate about the Coalition’s indifference to climate change, the lack of funding for bicycle-seat research and all the other picayune passions that animate your typical Age or SMH reporter.

Still, as Zeg observes via the link below, there are even stranger things in this world than a Fairfax newsroom.

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