Gideon Haigh
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Gideon Haigh is an English-born Australian journalist. He was born in London, but raised in Geelong, Australia.[1]
He is a sports writer who writes on historical matters related to sports such as Australian rules football and cricket. He has written for The Age newspaper in Melbourne.
In December 2005, it was announced that Haigh is in the running to be a panellist on the new ABC television show The Offsiders, a sports panel show, with Gerald Whateley the host. Haigh is also a regular co-host on The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne. However, at the end of November 2006 he announced he would be retiring from the Conversation Hour after 103 appearances.
The books Haigh has written include Asbestos House, a story on James Hardie Industries' asbestos history.
Haigh has expressed concerns as to the effects of the Google search engine's ranking system and its stronghold as source of information for students and the public in general. Haigh has authored an essay, "Information Idol: Is Google making us stupid", in The Monthly Magazine, that won the The John Curtin Prize for Journalism in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2006.
Haigh has also appeared as a guest on Australian youth radio network TripleJ's current affairs segment Hack[2] and on ABC Radio National's The Media Report[3] to discuss his concerns with Google.
Haigh asserted that the quality of discourse could suffer as a source of information's worth is judged by Google according to its previous degree of exposure to the status quo. The pool of information available to those using Google as their sole avenue of inquiry is thus inevitably limited, and possibly compromised due to covert commercial influences, according to Haigh.
Haigh plays cricket for the South Yarra Cricket Club, known as "the Yarras". His right arm offspin bowling has seen him take over 100 wickets. As the former chairman of selectors at the club, he is affectionately known as "the artist formerly known as the chairman of selectors", a parody of the pop artist Prince.
He is covering the 2006-2007 Ashes cricket series for the British-based Guardian newspaper.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Booksellers Association, 82nd Annual Conference (2006). “NB: PDF is 3.2 megabytes in size.”
- ^ Interviewed by Steve Canaine on 15/02/2006
- ^ "Google Schmoogle"
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