A succinct, respectful letter to the editor is far more effective. Others are diplomats first.

Preferably stick to one point/theme, simple facts and make it crisp. Any supporters you have should be encouraged to do the same and in their own words.

Thank goodness for those who expect something better than tabloid journalism.

Examinator, I suspect you're right about the response of the Press Council; they've been tepid at best in the past.

I do think you're wrong about "not encouraging the beast". Whether it's Google, MSN, Yahoo, Murdoch or Fairfax, some large corporation is mediating our information flow to a large extent. If we don't insist on quality, we won't get it.

Cornflower, I like your suggestion. I'd like to think of this thread as sort of an extended letter to the editor. Given the extensive and well-connected membership of this site, I'm sure that somebody connected with the Oz will have seen it. Possibly Overington may have seen it herself and modify her own approach. I hope so, because she's obviously a talented journo if her Walkley is any indication and this is embarrassingly poor stuff from someone of her calibre.

Walkley? Tracy Grimshaw has been short-listed for the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award for her hatchet job on Matthew Johns!

It's definitely no indication of talent.

http://blogs.news.com.au/jackmarxlive/index.php/news/comments/grimshaw/

Antiseptic

Well if you can't stomach the advice from CJ Morgan or yours truly, at least you can abide Cornflower's. Good that you are following through on your convictions regarding Overington. Please keep OLO informed of progress or not.

PS

Possession of child porn in many countries, including Australia, is a criminal offence. If I discovered my niece and nephew in the care of anyone who looked at child porn, well that person would regret their fetish/perversion - a lot.

I imagine that if Caroline Overington read through this thread she'd dismiss Antiseptic's contrived 'complaint' as the disingenuous misogynist bleating that it is. It's also unsurprising that Antiseptic doesn't have the courage of his convictions to lodge a formal complaint about what he claims is a serious breach of journalistic ethics.

Of course, we know that this beat-up is really just another attempt by Antiseptic to bash women textually, don't we?

CJ Morgan

Are you doubting Antiseptic's sincerity?

Give the man a chance to post his "succinct, respectful letter to the editor" here on OLO for our edification.