Connor Tomas O'Brien

Category: Arts & Leisure

  • Who Gives a Toss about Saving the Newspapers?

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    Attended the ‘Future of Quality Journalism’ panel at Adelaide Writers’ Week on Tuesday. Wasn’t. Impressed. The members of the panel – ABC documentary presenter Michael Cathcart, and journos Malcolm Knox, Alice Pung, and Ian Townsend – are intelligent people. I’ve read their stuff: it’s damn good. Unfortunately, they collectively stumbled right from the beginning, misunderstanding…

  • Really, You Want to Hate Your Audience

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    I was speaking with Josh Fanning (ad man at this magazine) today about the insularity of Adelaide’s artistic community. Josh basically made the point that (and I’m badly paraphrasing here), “We need to get the yuppies coming along to art shows, because they’re the ones with the money to actually buy the art.” Insularity. It’s…