Issue No 23 | 23 July 1999 | |
NewsPiersWatch and The Chaser in Mega Merger Deal
Workers Online has entered a ground-breaking publishing deal with The Chaser newspaper in a move that could send tremors through the media world.
Under the deal, Workers Online and The Chaser will share content in a bid to increase market share. The Chaser, a new fortnightly satirical newspaper sold in newsagencies across the state, will run the Pierswatch column. And Workers Online will run an extract from The Chaser in a new satire section each week. Media analysts say the merger is a sign of the convergence of the leftie slacker market, long neglected be advertisers because of their anti-consumerist, low-income lifestyles. "I wouldn't cross the road to piss on their market value," one analyst said, "but at least they realise they are absolute jokes."
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Interview: An Economic Wet Dr Christopher Sheil on economic rationalism and the 1997-98 water failures in Adelaide and Sydney. Unions: The Stench from the South In 1997 the entire Adelaide metropolitan area was drenched in foul, sulphorous, sewerage odours, emanating from the Bolivar waste water treatment plant. Environment: Trading into Trouble Seattle, USA, is shaping up as demonstrator mecca in the lead up to World Trade Organisation talks. History: Eveliegh Rail Reunion Former workers and their families from the historic Eveleigh Railway Workshops in inner-Sydney are holding a picnic reunion and folk music festival on the site on Sunday, August 29. International: Bosses Use Armed Gangs to Break Russian Picket On 9 July 1999, eighty masked, uniformed gunmen accompanied by the local prosecutor and other officials tried to storm the Vyborg Pulp and Paper Mill, under occupation by workers for the past eighteen months. Satire: New Refugee Crisis: Journalists Flee Peace Zone The camps are once again full in the Albanian border town of Gruntiez. Review: 10 Reasonably Interesting Moments in Film Cultural theorist Snag Cleaver flies off the handle again..
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