CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
The non-stop flow of corrupt MPs and Senators flowing through the New South Wales State Government have been able to exhale today.
No longer will they have to worry about Sydney Morning Herald forensic reporter Kate McClymont sniffing around the properties they bought in the state’s north-west that just happen to be sitting on top of an enormous coal deposit.
No longer do they have to worry about being seen eating lunch in Woolloomooloo wharves with brothel owners or racehorse trainers. And no longer do they have to worry about that brief moment in time where they thought they’d successfully sold Wentworth Greyhound track to the Hillsong Church. In fact nothing they do will be reported on.
Not even all the hookers they fuck or all the brown paper bags they take from developers.
Because there’s no newspapers with any interest in reporting those things anymore.
This news follows of the biggest media deals ever seen in Australia, Nine and Fairfax have announced plans for a $4 billion merger that will see the name “Fairfax” disappear from the nation’s media landscape.
The merger will cut costs for both the broadcaster and the publisher, rendering the iconic Sydney Morning Herald as effectively a platform to promote Channel 9 reality TV shows as this old media empire snags itself one more lap around the flushing toilet bowl.
In a memo to Fairfax staff today, company CEO Greg Hywood confirmed that the merged company “will be called Nine” – although he also stated that there would be “plenty of Fairfax Media DNA in the merged company and board – and plenty of opportunities for our remaining journalists to ply their trade elsewhere…”
“Like writing recaps about soulless Gold Coast roid-boys and chicks with bolt-ons trying to get famous on reality TV”
