News Corp and Fairfax

The Australian has been irritating me for the last week or so:    it has managed to include an article referring in one way or another to Pamela Williams' book, Killing Fairfax, just about every day.

I don't doubt that the book is interesting, and there certainly seems to be a story to be told, but I really am over the constant harping on it.



Linked to this, the Australian has also been speculating that the Age wants to drop weekday print editions.    There was a report about this in May, and it featured again in the "Media" section this week (it's probably on-line, but I couldn't find it, but since it's behind the paywall anyway, perhaps it doesn't matter -- or was it pulled?).  An article reporting that Fairfax strongly denied that there are plans to wind down the Age's print editions in the near future was prominently published the next day, apparently after Fairfax "embarked on a PR offensive" ( see http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/fairfax-boss-denies-plans-to-stop-the-presses/story-fn91v9q3-1226687781989.)   (again, sorry about the paywall).

I'm no great fan of Fairfax, but all this seems to be over-the-top and leads me to question News Corp's motives.