HATEHATEHATEHATEHATE

I just spent a few hours reading microfilms at the marvellous Fisher Library. It was horrible.

Le Monde's films are blurry. The microfilm readers are from the eighties which means it may not be the LM which is blurry. It could just be the old monitor.

And the SMH in 1968 was so unspeakably chauvinistic. That's why my facebook status currently reads: Adela Greenbaumis at that lovely stage when she feels like STRANGLING THE 1968 EDITOR OF THE SMH USING HIS OWN NO DOUBT RATHER DRAB CHAUVINISTIC NECKTIE.

I usually never use caps, but this occasion deserved an entire rant in caps lock.

Did you know that the Sydney Morning Herald in 1968 had a church section, a mail order bride section and a section about 'parties' for young people(and the cynical inverted commas are there on purpose), including an inset about how girls could do their hair in order to stay at the height of fashion, but no world section.

You wouldn't think that they'd manage to devote a good twenty pages of news to the Vietnam War, and you'd be right.

Throughout May 68, there was always one article about the world's first heart translplant per day in order to alleviate all the doom gloom and excessive boredom of 19 3/4 pages of whining about 'Nam.

Which was followed by (I kid you not) a 40 page sport section.