What sort of country are we? That’s the question implicit in Lachlan Murdoch v Crikey | Richard Ackland
For Australian media, this case is important – it asks whether anyone is free to publish in the public interest a hyperbolic remark about a wealthy media baron
The newspaper buccaneer William Randolph Hearst explained to the father of Douglas Fairbanks Jr that he liked owning newspapers, “because you can crush a man with journalism”.
And when it came to Orson Welles and his film Citizen Kane, quite a lot of crushing went on.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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