Catherine Deveny takes new swipe at 'jealous' Age

Michael Bodey 

From:The Australian 

September 03, 2010 10:39AM

COMEDIAN Catherine Deveny has taken another swipe at management of her former employer The Age, saying they sacked her because they were jealous of her high profile.

“I was never sacked for what I said on Twitter,” Deveny told a Melbourne Writers Festival audience.

She added senior management were “furious” at the attention she was attracting on radio, in comments on The Age's website and in appearances on programs such as ABC1's Q&A, which “they see as yardsticks of their success”.

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Deveny Skeptics Trumps Card

That't right, I have been made a Skeptics Trumps card along with Dawkins,  Hitchens, AC Grayling, PZ Myers....So proud! I wish I could thank God.  Instead I'll thank The Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Ten Questions for Catherine Deveny

From The Australian

By Caroline Overington

13 July 2010

CATHERINE Deveny is a stand-up comedian and writer and the mother of three young boys.

What was your first job in media?

Full-time gag writer for Tonight Live With Steve Vizard when I was 23, after only a few months of doing stand-up. I would love to say I was headhunted but I was vagina hunted. They wanted a female. I was the closest thing. And the cheapest.

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The Age Gets It's Tweets In A Tangle

From ABC's The Drum

By Jonathan Green

May 5 2010

Even as I write this The Age website is spruiking its story on the sacking of columnist Catherine Deveny and the attendant controversy. Her face is just above the fold (as, endearingly, we still say of websites) on theage.com.au homepage, with the headline "Deveny dropped: editor acts after Logies storm". The comment counter is sitting at 567

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The Age Of Catherine Deveny Is Not Over

By Lachie McKenzie 

Catherine Deveny should not have been sacked from The Age. The paper has lost support from her fans, and gained no new readers from her dismissal. From their point of view, a devenstating mistake.

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