Great editors stay forever because they want to
Daily newspaper journos and editors come and go. The good ones hang around for a while and have an impact for a short time, perhaps using regional newspapers as a stepping stone to somewhere else.
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The great ones stay forever because they want to. They love their paper, they love their city and they love their community.
There aren’t too many tougher jobs in a place like Bendigo than a newspaper journo or editor.
With constant pressures from management, deadlines, advertisers and an unforgiving public, you put your name and your reputation on the line every day. There aren’t too many other professions that do that. You aren’t just accountable to your boss, you’re accountable to 100,000 people, constantly.
Bendigo has been blessed with a number of great journos and editors over the years, and none more so than Wayne Gregson.
To Wayne, I have no doubt it’s more than a profession, more than a career, and it’s more than just about getting the next story.
It’s about putting your city and your community first. It’s about taking bullets and standing up to bullies, to incompetence and to those who are only in it for themselves. It is a thankless job, and one that can only be done well by someone who cares.
In Wayne Gregson, Bendigo has that, and a lot more.
This city owes more to Wayne and his long list of proteges than we will ever know. His campaigning style of journalism and ability to work with our leaders has brought vital services, jobs, and justice to this great city. Wayne’s work over the years has saved lives. Of that there is no question.
Even after his time as an editor ended, Wayne has continued to proudly write about, and promote, Bendigo and serve the region, whether it be with council, with Rotary, to state and federal parliament or on a million other boards and committees.
There haven’t been too many people in the past 50 years who have influenced Bendigo as positively, and as importantly, as Wayne Gregson.
Wayne, while you ended your last column with “Thankyou”, it is us who must thank you.
Anthony Radford, Bendigo
Water must not be sold as commodity
Couldn't agree more with Nigel Hicks ( “Who's benefitting from the MDBP”, Letters to the Editor, December 27), and words can barely describe the dreadful situation.
But to be brief, water must be tied to the land: it must cease to be traded as a commodity.
Also, “environmentalism” should be kept in balance - with human needs. It never looked like a “plan” to the most affected community.
Swift action is needed to prevent a complete collapse of the agriculture, economy and social fabric of the Murray Darling Basin. Take note Prime Minister and Opposition Leader.
Helen Leach, Bendigo
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