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Gonzo Meets the Press
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Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
Date:08/11/2011
Tom Krause (aka Gonzo) is producing his last Meet the Press show this Sunday, heading off to hipper pastures and a full-time writing career. He has a novel on television to finish rewriting and a blog to keep refreshed.
Republicans raising Cain
Date:02/11/2011
President Barack Obama has had to cancel several visits to Australia, due to domestic politics, but the way the Republican presidential candidates are performing, he will have no worries about the Opposition when he makes his trip Down Under in 2 weeks.
Ruby Newsday
Date:26/10/2011
Jessica Rudd has done it again. The Rudd family novelist has written another book about a prime minister, this one in his first term having trouble with programs, polls and a female education minister. And she swears it’s all fiction.
Journalism Ruehls for a day
Date:20/10/2011
An eloquent Malcolm Turnbull launched a book of wonderful columns by the late Peter Ruehl at the American Club in Sydney this week. But on the way back home, Tom Krause discovered that all was not well in the media landscape.
Plumbing the depths
Date:13/10/2011
As the Australian Parliament continues to descend into adolescent antics, the US Republican presidential campaign is trying to find heroes in plumbers and pizza magnates and avoiding foreign policy debates. Where have all the visionaries gone?
Seeking asylum in Alabama
Date:05/10/2011
A particularly nasty immigration bill in the southern American state of Alabama has pregnant women afraid to go to hospital and parents afraid to send their children to school. It reminds Tom Krause of Australia past – and present.
The poetry of rejection
Date:28/09/2011
Authors are used to having their works rejected, but when a prestigious magazine doesn't even bother replying to a submission, you wonder if it's all worth it. Tom Krause discovers a poem in search of an anthology, but only finding success underground.
Don't listen, don't get re-elected
Date:21/09/2011
Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008 raised high hopes of lifting America out of the doldrums after eight years of George W. Bush. Nearly three years later, President Obama’s “change we can believe in” is running out of believers.
No home for satire
Date:15/09/2011
The week after 9-11 Tom Krause tried to settle down with Julia at home, and discovered you can’t go home again when there’s no frontline to take you there, or a minister to say yes to when you do.
9/11: The Saddest Day in September
Date:07/09/2011
Ten years ago, a day that will live in infamy like Pearl Harbour forced the world to confront terrorism, but what's so sad about September 11 is that we lost so many ordinary people doing extraordinary things, like Tommy Langone, Amy Jarret and Tim Kelly.
It's only a game
Date:31/08/2011
Rugby League old-timers are still calling for the biff to be brought back to the game, despite an all-in brawl last week between the Manly Sea Eagles and the Melbourne Storm. Tom Krause remembers the good old days of sportsmanship.
Goodbye Lockers
Date:23/08/2011
As all of Australia knows, veteran ABC reporter Paul Lockyer, chopper pilot Gary Ticehurst and cameraman John Bean were killed in a helicopter crash last week. Tom Krause remembers the Paul Lockyer he knew as a producer at Channel Nine.
Never ending campaign
Date:17/08/2011
The US presidential election race is underway, and the Republicans have selected a right-wing Christian candidate in an Iowa straw poll that has the pundits panting for the real thing. But Tom Krause predicts a win for the Texas Gipper next year.
London bridges falling down
Date:11/08/2011
The riots in London this week reminded Tom Krause of unrest in America’s black communities in the sixties. The difference this time is that the protesters are targeting the rich and pocketing luxury goods in an opportunistic spree of looting.
Gabby goes to Washington
Date:04/08/2011
America and the world are in debt to one member of the House of Representatives, who showed her fellow politicians that courage means taking a stand even when you’re unsteady on your feet.
Where are the Swans of yesteryear?
Date:28/07/2011
Being part of a guard of honour at the Sydney Swans match against the Western Bulldogs last Saturday has sent Tom Krause into a nostalgic spin as he remembers the side from its gory days to its glory days.
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Humble is as humble does
Date:21/07/2011
Watching the Murdochs embracing humility in London and reading Pete Hamill’s new novel about the death of a paper in New York City has prompted Tom Krause to write a love letter to newspapers.
Old Hack to hackers: Take your phones and shove them
Date:14/07/2011
The UK phone-hacking scandal has forced the closure of the News of the World, prompted two government inquiries and derailed a News Corp bid for full control of BSkyB. Tom Krause believes the debacle could have been averted by some good pub mentoring.
Go Fourth and party!
Date:07/07/2011
It was the Fourth of July this week – American Independence Day – and Tom Krause, a dual citizen, celebrated with several hundred people at a reception hosted by the US Consul General, complete with beer, hot dogs and apple pie.
Let Julia be Julia
Date:30/06/2011
What happens when the Prime Minister appears on Meet the Press? Tom Krause takes you behind the scenes to reveal a different Julia than the one you see on television.
Going out with a bang, not a whimper
Date:23/06/2011
A poignant piece about death in the Good Weekend prompts Tom Krause to think about his hero, Hunter S. Thompson: how he ended his life, and how he lived it.
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Soweto: How to start a revolution
Date:16/06/2011
This is a day that will never be forgotten in South Africa – the police shooting of student protesters in the black townships 35 years ago that eventually brought down the apartheid government.
9/11: A decade which will live in infamy
Date:09/06/2011
The US Studies Centre was founded five years ago to increase understanding of the United States in Australia. This week, the USSC’s national summit came up with some surprising conclusions on the 9/11 Decade.
The future of print is in print
Date:02/06/2011
The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance, journos and supporters are protesting against the sacking of subeditors by Fairfax to cut costs. The downsizing has been going on in the US for years. Here’s how one journalist found a way to stay in newspapers.
In other people's shoes
Date:26/05/2011
Empathy is a good word to live by, Tom Krause has discovered, and may hold the key to a humane solution to Australia’s asylum seeker problem.
Behind every great man
Date:19/05/2011
It was a week where women took centre stage in Australia and proved to the world, as if we needed proof, that they are now wearing the pants on the literary circuit.
Going nuts about a Bolt
Date:12/05/2011
It’s lamentable, says Tom Krause, that a new television show is creating a wave of intolerance in the social media. Whatever happened to the famous Australian “Fair Go”?
Subbing blues
Date:05/05/2011
Outsourcing has become the way of the future for many newspapers. Fairfax is the latest company with plans to place subediting in the hands of an external group. But will it lift the quality of journalism? We all need subs we can lean on (Photo Kai Mörk)
Remembrance of ceremonies past
Date:29/04/2011
Tom Krause went on a sentimental literary journey this week, and found that you can go home again, and the Australian/Vogel’s award is still a precious moment to remember.
Cliches: The Test of Time
Date:21/04/2011
Tom Krause ponders a life-long love affair with books, clichés on television, and why Jeffrey Archer is allowed to call his new novel Only Time Will Tell.
The Importance of Being Grateful
Date:14/04/2011
Tom Krause reminisces about his start in journalism more than 40 years ago, offers some advice to budding journos and media advisers, and says goodbye to an old mate, Peter Ruehl.
Twitter Journalism
Date:06/04/2011
American author and legendary Rolling Stone political correspondent, Dr Hunter S Thompson, helped pioneer gonzo (or new) journalism.