John Hartigan appeared on 7.30 this week, to distance News Corp’s Australian operation from its vile British counterpart. The most interesting thing he said was this:
The Australian … is very strident in the way that it covers politics and I’d argue it’s really the only newspaper in Australia that properly covers politics, national politics.
News Ltd “controls 70 per cent of combined national and metropolitan media newspaper markets”, including “monopolies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin and a range of provincial centres like Townsville, Cairns and Geelong”—but its Chief Executive Officer says that only one of its dozens of newspapers covers politics properly. Disgraceful.