Craig Hutchison

And maybe that's a quicker way home.

And it can be.

So do you think it's fair and reasonable to roll the other side of a story as a competitive newspaper based upon the fact that you're a better chance to get access?

Yeah, it is.

Actually, we live parts of this in the Essendon drug saga.

I mean, the Herald Sun didn't have a line of sight on that initially.

And then I've always said, and this is not the first time I've said this, they backed the wrong horse in that.

And that was because they were playing catch up initially on elements of the story.

But is there such a thing as a wrong horse when you are just in the information game?

Well, do you want to get back to the without fear or favour and to act purely with intent?

They're different questions.

Yeah, I get it.

And Hachi, we've said this many times before.

We've discussed specifically issues.

We've both been in situations where you wake up one morning and you haven't got a line of sight or a proper line of sight on a story that's blown up.

And you naturally are drawn to maybe the anti-establishment when it comes to that storyline.

That's just a natural human reaction, isn't it?

To shoot it down, at least as a starting point.

The Essendon stuff's a really interesting example because you're right, they only had half of the story really available to them early.

Yeah.