Can The Bug finally junk the above image from our graphics library?

That at the very least is the hope of the washed-up, bitter, old hacks who compile this column – to finally bring to a close what seems to have been a years’ long campaign – only because it has- to try to teach sub-editors at The Sydney Morning Herald how to adopt a clear, logical, professional approach to their craft.

All you BUGgers out there will know what we’ve been on about for yonks. When the SMH has a four-page advertising wraparound and decides to folio their fake inside cover as page 3, could those FUCKING USELESS SUBS please refrain from declaring that stories that spill from that page have not been continued from the FUCKING front page, the FUCKING cover page or page FUCKING one!

For reasons we have never understood, subs on a Wednesday night shift have FUCKED this up more than any other shift working on an edition with a wraparound. Their record was three FUCKUPS some weeks back when, yes, three yarns that spilled from page 3 were continued from anywhere FUCKING else than page 3!

So you can imagine our compilers’ surprise – nay, shock! – when last Wednesday night one sub got it right about the only page 3 story that spilled. They had it continued from page 3!!!

So can we junk our SMH sub-editors’ pissake image and declare our campaign finally won?

We very much FUCKING doubt it. We’ll let you know on Thursday.

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Does nobody in the Brisbane newsroom of the ABC have a smartphone with a built-in camera?

Our MGH researchers asked themselves and each other that question when they saw the story below on ABC News Online about next week’s planned strike by Queensland state school teachers over pay negotiations.

A quick check showed that the commercial library picture used to illustrate the story shows a bunch of kids somewhere in the United Kingdom on their way to or from school.

Surely our supposedly cash-strapped national broadcaster didn’t need to pay for a pic when there are plenty of others that anyone at the ABC could have taken for free.

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