Craig Hutchison

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.

And if one side got told exclusively first, the default position from rival newspapers or media outlets is to take the other position.

Yeah.

And this is also part of this article you've sent me, and Chris Masters has been quoted as part of it.

He's taken the view that the initial formation of information relating to, and again, we don't take sides on this issue.

It's still in front of the courts.

The Ben Roberts-Smith article.