Joe Egg in today's West

As Stephen himself points out, he's referring to policies and editorial decisions made three years ago. The West Australian has a new editor, as noted above, in the shape of Brett McCarthy and is attempting to move on from the previous editorship. He's already making changes to the content of the paper; the new WIRED section on Thursdays covering music is a case in point. Given it is a time of change at the West, this would be an ideal time to make suggestions to the main boss (i.e. not the arts boss) on what the public might want, how the paper can be improved and so on. If there can be a new music liftout, why not a new arts liftout, which devotes part of itself to community theatre reviews (not just a few paragraphs here and there in the Stage Whispers column), along with the rest of the arts? His email was given above but I'll put it again here for reference: brett.mccarthy@wanews.com.au Major changes come from the big bosses, not the editors in charge of their own sections.