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Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

Lefty online magazine: issue 10, May 2016 to issue 17, November 2016

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Much had changed since the early days of Drum. For one thing, dictates<br />

of modern publishing forced up advertising content beyond the 60%<br />

mark, greatly inhibiting our editorial canvas and leading to running<br />

battles with management. Relationships within the organisation were<br />

often strained and when Sutton was pushed through a glass window<br />

by the advertising manager during one particularly heated exchange in<br />

the passage we all took it as a minor victory – at least we were getting<br />

through to them! But the restriction of editorial pages meant that very few<br />

stories could run for more than three pages.<br />

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Publishing conditions had also changed substantially. A vast amount of<br />

legislation inhibiting the Press had found its way into the statute books.<br />

Blindfold in a legislative minefield is an accurate description of publishing<br />

conditions and Drum, not having the muscle of the corporate publishing<br />

giants behind it, was particularly vulnerable. The edition of Drum<br />

published after the outbreak of the June 1976 riots, for example, was<br />

banned, possession of the <strong>magazine</strong> being an offence.<br />

exerpt from Creative Camera, nos. 235/236 July/August 1984<br />

SHEEP IN THE ROAD : NUMBER TWELVE

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