Craig Hutchison

This link you gave me wasn't.

Somehow.

This was a paragraph that I picked out.

This was just one random paragraph of a long article.

But that was just the opening salvo in this perverse variation of Murdoching.

And Murdoching is in inverted commas relating to the coverage in the SMH and Age over the Ben Roberts Smith article compared with how it was being covered in News Limited.

And it continues.

Summarized, it looks like this.

We, and the reference to we is News Limited, we didn't get the story, never mind that it is a huge story.

We'll take the opposite position, and because you've had the temerity to go elsewhere with it rather than let us own the story, we'll attack you for good measure and to remind you who's boss around here.

So do you believe that that happens?

Yeah, I do.

Not specific to News Limit.

I think it happens at the highest- You think it happens in all newspapers?

Yeah.

I think it happens at the highest levels of really big corporations, not even just media, but just powerful corporations.

But yes, I do believe it happens.

And again, that's an article written by Andrew Dodd and Matthew Rickardson.

The theory is that if you didn't get the yarn and the yarn requires-

There's two sides to every story.