‘Cock-up, not conspiracy’ at The Age

Tim Burrowes

January 22, 2009 5:30

The realities of how a newspaper column that probably shouldn’t have been published slipped into The Age, by Crikey’s Margaret Simons:

“This is, as newsroom stories so often are, a story of cock-up and not conspiracy.”

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.