HOW RUPERT MURDOCH CAME TO BE HUNG IN RIVAL FAIRFAX MEDIA’S NEW NEWSROOM
December 12th 2007 23:47
The mystery of how dozens of images of News Ltd supremo Rupert Murdoch were hung in the new Fairfax newsroom offices in Sydney – or has it?
The Australian today publishes a missive from Fairfax Media boss Lloyd Whish-Wilson revealing,
"Staff are only too well aware of last week's problem with the wrong illustration being used for the graphics on the communication pillars on levels one, three and four Much was made of it in the Murdoch press, who also quoted some unnamed Sydney Morning Herald staff. Fairfax is being sent an official apology by the architects, who take ultimate responsibility and who failed to double-check the images. The error occurred between the architects and the people doing the graphics for the building. The panels were installed out of hours and it was the next morning before the error was picked up. The Murdoch press reaction is to be expected. In the reverse case, we'd probably have done the same. However, as many staff have expressed to me, the really disappointing thing was that some of our staff appear to have publicly got some joy out of using a mistake by a contractor to belittle the place in which they work or to automatically assume management erred. Very strange behaviour."
But Fairfax corporate spokesman Bruce Wolpe said the images were not a mistake and had been commissioned as part of a series on Australian business leaders.
- From MediaBlab
The Australian today publishes a missive from Fairfax Media boss Lloyd Whish-Wilson revealing,
"Staff are only too well aware of last week's problem with the wrong illustration being used for the graphics on the communication pillars on levels one, three and four Much was made of it in the Murdoch press, who also quoted some unnamed Sydney Morning Herald staff. Fairfax is being sent an official apology by the architects, who take ultimate responsibility and who failed to double-check the images. The error occurred between the architects and the people doing the graphics for the building. The panels were installed out of hours and it was the next morning before the error was picked up. The Murdoch press reaction is to be expected. In the reverse case, we'd probably have done the same. However, as many staff have expressed to me, the really disappointing thing was that some of our staff appear to have publicly got some joy out of using a mistake by a contractor to belittle the place in which they work or to automatically assume management erred. Very strange behaviour."
- From MediaBlab
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