Had this great routine about untied shoe laces and pants around my knees, which was hacked out of my Cape Times' restaurant review of 95 Keerom Street in Top of the Times today - I'll have to find another place for it.
Also noted the Cape Times' report that Sunday Times' Business editor Thabo Leshillo is Sowetan's new editor-in-chief following the approval from the Competition's Commission that Johncom take control of New Africa Publications. While management Snakes and Ladders can be expected, I was distressed to read about the 32 retrenchments. My fear is this is yet another nail in the coffin of journalism standards where cost-efficiency and not quality is king.
Since I read the National Editors' Forum report on the juniorisation of News Rooms, I've thought that the opportunity for communications consultants, who can string literate sentences together, vastly improve the chance of media releases being printed verbatim.
Savvy journalists who either cash-in on retrenchment offers or give the finger to increased work pressures for piddling pay, are jumping into PR with alacrity. For some, though, the reality of being on the asking side of the Media/PR scale is much less desirable than imagined.