Alan Ramsey was “a particularly powerful force in journalism”, said former prime minister Paul Keating, himself one of the long-timeRamsey’s Saturday column on politics was a “must read”, Mr Keating said, and Ramsey was “always his own person ... his effective and attractive manner of writing was a joy to readers”.“The chance of the national press gallery seeing or developing someone so individualistic and rent by such standards of public probity and breadth of interest is low,” Mr Keating said.
Many politicians loathed him and disparaged him, but many more feared him. Among colleagues, he was known for his fearsome temper.’s former chief sub-editor of features, used to take Ramsey’s copy on Friday nights - always late, but always word-perfect.“If he tried to file on time, he would go only two hours late, instead of three. But he was just brilliant.”
“He would agonise over every paragraph, every sentence, every word. If he ever made a blue he was absolutely mortified.”said Ramsey "left his mark on political reporting" for 40 years. He used his acceptance speech to criticise then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and to hint he wanted his column back.
While Peter Fitzsimons is simply ‘loathed’ 😂
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