In Mackay, the News Corp paper is by far and away the most objective of the three print/web outlets.
I wonder what vacuum News Corp leaving these markets will cause. I guess we can look at Ayr as an indicator. The Burdekin Advocate more or less completely shut down and was replaced with an antivaxxer, conspiracy peddling newspaper that is entirely dependent on advertising from the coal lobby. This was replicated in Bowen. In Stanthorpe. In Ingham. In Cardwell.
Years ago The Australian had a really good media section, and back then Iâd even buy the paper on Mondays just for its media section, but these days itâs incredibly biased, politically-motivated and can be loose with the truth, particularly against the ABC or anything they deem to be âwokeâ. I wouldnât pay a cent for it, now.
Apparently they lost their shit after Four Corners did an episode on Fox News and had something like 40-60 articles attacking the ABC within 2 days.
Heck, I remember when the Australian was a credible (or least credible-ish) right-of-centre newspaper.
Sources said the three new divisions would be:
âFast and freeâ division - news.com.au and e-commerce sites
Metro and sports division - papers such as Herald Sun and The Daily Telegraph
âAffluent and influentialâ division - The Australian and prestige publications such as Vogue Australia and GQ
Other options canvassed included moving Sky News Australia into News Corpâs headquarters at Holt Street in Surry Hills.
UPDATE
From the Australianâs Media email digest:
Really, The Australian? That was the big takeaway? There was nothing else to headline from yesterdayâs judgement?
News Corp accuse others of participating in âactivist journalismâ yet they do it in plain sight.
Yes this is the agenda they are running now that they canât barrack for Bruce Leherman. Theyâre going to politicize it all to support their liberal mate. Itâs endlessly transparent.
I wonder whatâs Janetâs hot take this morning 
I have to say, though, this is not the front page headline I was expecting from the Herald Sun
The Australian had to get a dig in âdodgy projectâ but none of their publications or broadcasts arenât dodgy at all.
could not help themselves 
In fairness to the Oz, they have to justify their dogmatic support for Lehrmann somehow.
Theyâve published more this afternoon bashing 10 and the project as well as the government for paying Brittany Higgins money. Theyâre like rabid dogs and the putrid readers are commenting some of the most vile and hate filled comments.
Ironically âfree to air is full of biasâ and they prefer sky news that bastion of balanced news.
The news side of Sky News is actually reasonably balanced. Its the opinion/after dark shows that really tip to the right.
Nope⌠itâs nuanced right wing stuff. Blink and youâll miss is. Itâs in the modality of the language. They sneak it in.
I laugh at the fact that Sky news and the ABC are clearly in love with each other. 
