The Newcastle Herald on TV? That seems a bit paradoxical.
Paul Keating wouldn't be happy. When he introduced cross-media ownership rules, he famously said media companies would be either "queens of the screen or princes of print".
The aim was to promote media diversity. But of course, the media landscape has long since been transformed and splintered into a thousand pieces like a broken mirror. So where do we look now?
Well, we can look at the Newcastle Herald on TV if we want. Eunice Hobson-English, from Belmont North, says this is how she does it because she is vision-impaired.
"Reading a newspaper or magazine print is the first thing to go with sight problems, which is totally frustrating," she said.
She has macular degeneration and is blind in her left eye. Her right eye is deteriorating.
"Any reading normally is hopeless. However, my son - who is with JB Hi-Fi - worked out a way round this.
"Thanks to being able to subscribe to the digital version of the Herald, I can now bring it up on my big TV screen, turn the pages, zoom in and use my mouse scroll to view the print as large as I need. It was all done by coupling my computer to my TV using a special cable he sold in the store. It has been life-changing. It works on a separate channel so I can still watch TV. I can switch back to TV programs any time using my remote. Simples!" [By the way, this is not meant to be an ad. Topics regular Eunice sent us the comments and photo, which we thought were kind of quirky]
Arnott's Bird and Bickies
Topics reported on Tuesday about Arnott's Steam Biscuit Factory in Cooks Hill, which was built in 1865.
Scott McKenzie, of Hamilton, was telling us how his dad told him that, at certain times, kids would go to the factory and "workers would hand out broken biscuits through the windows in little bags".
In response, Garry Robinson said his dad Harry Robinson - who grew up at The Junction - also shared stories about the factory.
"There was a designated day where they handed out bags of broken biscuits.
"He told me that if they ran out of broken biscuits, staff would get good biscuits and break them so no one missed out. There are always people doing good things."
Meanwhile, Ruth Burrell had some insight into the famous Arnott's bird.
Arnott's said on its website that William Arnott was given a macaw parrot as a gift by the captain of a ship taking him back to Australia from a visit to Scotland in the 1870s. Arnott's said this "fated fowl" was "the face of Arnott's biscuits for more than 150 years - and counting".
However, Ruth said: "I think you'll find that the bird on Arnott's logo is not a macaw, but a native Australian rosella parrot".
And we must admit, it does look like a rosella. Some say it's "rosella-like and part-Macaw".
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