Just heard about the latest cutbacks to NBN news and possibly journalists since WIN takeover through Tim Crakanthorp ('NBN News bulletins slashed, job cuts feared', Newcastle Herald 3/6). To say I am severely pissed off is an understatement. Local news cut back to half an hour? What? We love our local journalists and news readers and we care. We are not a backwater town but we are treated like that thanks to our Sydney-centric neighbours who treat us like dirt. I am fed up.
Newcastle deserves a full hour of news and most importantly, local news. We've always been the poor cousins to Sydney and this apparently still happens.