The Best of The Age 1979-1980
Nelson, 182 pp
Australian History
The Layout of the Land
by Jack Clancy •
The best of a newspaper should be, or used to be, news. But in the electronic age, when sheer questions of the very survival of print media are raised often enough, mere news is not enough. The press has those functions of interpretation, comment and backgrounding which electronic news gathering rarely has time for or interest in, and one of the qualities which marks a quality paper is its activities in these areas. And the quality of those activities.
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The Best of The Age 1979-1980
by Peter Cole-Adams
Nelson, 182 pp
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