The Age’s Catherine Deveny On Strike
Hope you enjoyed the article we pointed out in The Age last week by The Dev (as I like to refer to Catherine Deveny) as it might be the last one you get from her for a while. The Australian is reporting The Dev is on strike!
Reports James Jeffrey:
Catherine Deveny’s column in last week’s The Age, which marked International Women’s Day by describing her tampons as “vagina bullets”, may be her last contribution to Pravda-on-the-Yarra.
The self-described “professional pain in the arse and serial pest” has gone on strike after new editor Paul Ramadge declined to honour an agreement Deveny had struck with his predecessor Andrew Jaspan for a pay rise that, according to one Age insider, would have taken her into the stratosphere. Readers’ silence at the non-appearance of her regular column this week has been deafening. Deveny’s departure is a sad blow to this paper’s Cut &Paste section, though Weekend Strewth suspects there’ll be plenty left at the strike-hit Melbourne paper for C&P to harvest.
Hmmm. I don’t know what Ramadge was offering you, Catherine Deveny, but you are more than welcome to write for Defamer Australia while you wait for The Age to get its act together. I can pay you $3.60 in 5c coins, and offer you a warm (but unopened!) bottle of Coopers Green I just found outside in the garden. The choice is yours.
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‘Pravda on the Yarra’ is actually quite funny.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone call the Age immediately and scream down the line at them to bring her back!! She’d do it for you! Tel: (03) 9601 2250
The thought of Jess recording a talking Dev book in her Mr T voice to tide us over almost fills the hole…
And good riddance! How I would love to take her copy, scrunch it up into a ball and bounce it off her head!
With any luck the coming newspaper apocalypse will take down The Age. Don’t believe me? Even one of William Randolf Hearst’s newspapers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencier was not immune and has gone to web-only, cutting over 90% of its staff. Reports are that many cities in the US will lose at least one paper and some may lose all their dailies.
Oh please. Catherine Deveny only wrote in The Age to stir, and this was pushed increasingly online as a headliner.
Her silly and childish writings were little more than anti-populist ranting just to create controversy. And poor controversy at that.
Being a part time uni student I get weekend delivery for less than $50 a year. Thanks Fairfax. It’s the only reason why I read it.
Last night i copped the most warm hearted cuddle and kiss from the very talented and uplifting spirit of Catherine Deveny. It was a case of being in the right place at thre right time – we were both at the supermarket at 11.00pm doing what working mums do. as i passed her at the counter I said ‘love your work’…then scuttled off to my car feeling like a groupie. then catherine appeared again…out of nowhere, free book in hand. we embraced. she told me the story of her axing as a columist with the ‘age’.
this cannot be true. Please don’t remove one of the last remaining joys of that goddamn dumbed down news paper. Catherine is a fantastic antidote to hollow attntion seeking journalism displayed elsewhere in the rag. To the ‘age’get rid of catherine and we will get rid of you!
Is she still gone? I hope not! I’m confused, the last online article is dated 10 June. I will be sooo sad if she is – she challenges by ideas in a good way and makes me laugh at the same time!