Craig Hutchison
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And it spoke a bit, a lot to a couple of things.
It spoke to the merging of news and opinion, which we'll come back to, because if you, if you have to row one side of the story's boat.
Inevitably that's perceived as opinion.
And inevitably that they're tagged as having an anti Ben Roberts Smith opinion because they've led that.
The second thing is it's tabloid versus news.
So he went on to say News Limited would not have the resources or time or patience to
To spend two years on a story like that.
And that's because they're a tabloid.
They're in the today business, right?
And... It's hard work.
And it may have amounted to nothing.
Well, yeah, but then when you've got to compete against that.
So he and Nick McKenzie dropped the story on Ben Roberts-Smith.
There's no world, if you're the Herald Sun or the news editor, where you go, we can now be competitive in this story on that side of it.
Because they've spent two years...