I’m bemused as to what induced the Sydney Morning Herald’s editors to engage Miranda Divine as a regular columnist. Even (nay, especially) when our views happen to correspond, her pieces strike me as shallow, sentimental and more befitting a gossip rag than an august broadsheet of the Herald’s standing.
Take her most recent piece, for instance. While I’m tentatively inclined to agree with much of it, I nonetheless fail to see what public salience lies therein.
By contrast, the (Sydney) Daily Telegraph has a real gem in Piers Akerman. While admittedly a bit of a polemicist at times, his pieces have typically displayed proper craftmanship, seldom sensationalise things and primarily concern matters of grave public interest. In particular, I salute his brave coverage of the Heiner Affair.
