…. but what will summer bring?

If you’ve ever doubted the work ethics of the bitter and twisted, washed-up, old hacks who compile this column, please be informed they were all up at 4am yesterday (Thursday) morning to see if the sub-editors on the Wednesday night shift at the SMH had finally got their act together!

By that, we mean that provided Thursday’s book had a four-page Hardly Normal wraparound, did they finally show some professionalism – for the second Wednesday night shift in a row! – to have any story that flowed from page 3 – the inside fake cover – had actually come from PAGE THREE?

And they did, causing several of our veteran compilers to sob uncontrollably at the second sign in a week that those subs could count and that our very long education program continued to suggest victory at last!

And, yes, celebrations are once again called for. Finally, the subs on a Wednesday night have worked out that since the printed newspaper began, PAGE THREE has never, ever, been the front page, the cover page, or – horror of horrors – PAGE ONE.

So then. Does doing the write thing two weeks in a row suggest victory for our campaign? Do we remain hopefully positive that we’ll never see a return to the nights when these lazy, unprofessional, clowns didn’t have the nous or maybe even the basic interest, when they plopped their arses down for a shift, to check how the paper they would be working on would be folioed.

As we reported a week ago (link below), can we finally remove from our image library our two stock images (at top and below) that we have used over a very long journey as we’ve tried our best to educate those sub-editors at The Sydney Morning Herald as to the basics of The Craft of Sub-Editing #101.

Has the lesson finally been listened to and absorbed, or should we wait to see what the first weeks of summer bring? What’s your gut feeling, BUGgers?

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Has the lesson finally been learnt?

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