ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
The editor of our newspaper’s crosstown rival publication, The Betoota Bugle, has laughed all the way to the Diamantina Club this afternoon because one of his senior reporters has “just out done himself with this one”.
Rohan Concorde OAM, who has been at the helm of New Corp’s last Berliner-size print newspaper in South West Queensland for 20 years, joined our reporter’s table at Betoota’s premiere men’s only club this after lunch where he detailed the subject of his front page story for The Bugle‘s weekend edition.
“We found this bloke, he’s Indian or whatever, but he’s got 40 houses in his property portfolio and we’ve got him complaining that scrapping negative gearing will force him to sell, mostly at a loss,” Concorde said.
“When that landed on my desk before lunch, I just couldn’t contain my amusement. It’s almost too perfect. You know, this Pakistani or Indian or equivalent, he, you know, that kind of thing will really get the crazies out of the woodwork,”
“The engagement we’ve had on the online story as well, it’s been incredible. We’ve had 10 subs [subscriptions] from that article alone. Thousands of clicks, thousands of angry comments from, you know, bogans. Creatures. So you can expect at least a dozen more of these stories. We’ve hit a rich vein, here, Errol.”
Our reporter then put his knife and fork down, rolled up a slab of smoked salmon with their hands and slid it down their throat without chewing.
“Christ alive, boy, you really made short work of that salmon,” Concorde continued.
“I’m telling you, if you want to drive engagement, you need to find immigrants, or people that look like immigrants, and show them doing better than some puce-faced skippy and they will go bananas. Any engagement is good engagement.”
More to come.
