Nine journalists do their block over Scott Cam’s Paris Olympics appearance as strike looms | Weekly Beast

Age reporter questions expense of flying TV personality to Europe while up to 90 staff are cut from newsrooms. Plus: Murdoch’s real-life succession drama

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The presence of the Nine TV personality Scott Cam in Paris to promote The Block was the final provocation for print journalists contemplating strike action on the eve of the Paris Olympic Games.

“How many jobs at Nine publishing could have been saved if a TV personality with nothing to do with the Olympics was not going to bed right now in luxury hotels in Paris?” the Age reporter Broede Carmody told ABC Radio ahead of journalists striking for five days.