Comments on: The Bulletin, RIP

By: Andrew Norton » Blog Archive » A reborn Bulletin?

Andrew Norton » Blog Archive » A reborn Bulletin? — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:44:30 +0000

[...] My Bulletin obituary may have been premature. Reports in several papers over the last few days - the most detailed was in the Weekend Australian - reveal that businessman Peter Hall is considering buying the masthead and turning it into a weekly magazine of comment and analysis, like The Spectator or the New Yorker. “I believe Australia needs an intelligent weekly magazine of comment and analysis.” [...]

By: Andrew Norton

Andrew Norton — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:07:05 +0000

Policy has a very small niche, but it does offer things other magazines don’t. The Bulletin no longer had a niche.

By: Andrew E

Andrew E — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:14:45 +0000

I too recall the Norton/Payne/Brogden cover, and draw no link between that and the fate of the magazine. It was also important to my early education on public affairs; I now realise that the articles that educated us had been written by Bob Carr and Tony Abbott.
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As I’ve said elsewhere I think the publication was embalmed before it was dead and took too few risks, which other publications have since sprung up to take (including Policy, it must be said).

By: Sacha

Sacha — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:20:50 +0000

I vaguely recall that cover!

By: siltstone

siltstone — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:08:23 +0000

The content of The Bulletin became so bad that copies in dentists waiting rooms remained unopened.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:51:33 +0000

Comments Police!! Comments Police!!

By: Spiros

Spiros — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:32:34 +0000

“I remember an ANU linguist once telling me that he looked in The Bully for new developments in the use of language”

That was very cunning of him.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:13:17 +0000

I remember an ANU linguist once telling me that he looked in The Bully for new developments in the use of language: if it had appeared in The Bully, then, to him, a word or phrase had moved from (and I use these words loosely) ‘unofficial’ to ‘accepted mainstream’.

David Haselhurst’s column by itself was worth the cover price.

Wednesday lunchtimes here see our division form a brainstrust to answer the Bully’s quiz. Well, we used to.

What a shame. I would have thought that the privateers would have tried to sell the brand before closing it down.

By: Craig Ranapia

Craig Ranapia — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:15:07 +0000

And wasn’t Crikey tacky in putting ‘The Bulletin does a Ledger’ in their subject header today?

‘Crikey’ is all class — if you drop the C and the L, that is — and a pretty stinky one.

By: Pedro S

Pedro S — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:36:23 +0000

There is irony in blog entries regretting the demise of the bulletin.