Australian politics, society & culture

Margaret Simons And The Australian

Submitted by kieronb on Fri, 2012-05-25 10:07

Friday, 25 May 2012 - 12:07am

PoliticOZ position:

General Content Item: Right Column Upper

"By now the Australian had devoted two front page stories, three additional stories or comments, a ‘Cut and Paste’ and an editorial—in total more than 6,000 words—to the Margaret Simons “failure to disclose/ conflict of interest” canard. If a Walkley Award were given to the most egregious non-story of the year, the Australian’s Simons saga would be a short priced favourite and a very worthy winner."

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