‘Rinehart aims to change the terms of debate in Australia for good. Her fellow Channel 10 director, “Hungry Jack” Cowin, the burger man, will likely join Rinehart on the board of Fairfax. Cowin has already made clear that the Fairfax Board has every right to set the editorial tone of the papers. And that Andrew Bolt, who already has the Bolt Report show on Channel 10, would be welcome at a Rinehart dominated Fairfax to “balance the message that’s being communicated to the community”.’
Cowin himself has said newspapers are businesses, not a public service, whose purpose is to ‘'portray the facts in a manner … to attract readership’‘.’
Which means, obviously, that as Age and SMH readers we can look forward to the following headlines:
