Labor Senator Doug Cameron has accused Daily Telegraph editor Paul Whittaker of beating up a fake front page story on Kevin Rudd’s return to the leadership to distract from claims he used Australian lives as bargaining chips during an anti-terror raid.
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Mitchell and The Oz (part II): ‘it’s now war’ with the government
Several people close to The Australian say the paper is looking strident on many fronts. And as government tensions escalate one declares “it’s now war”. Crikey continues its profile of the national broadsheet under editor Chris Mitchell.
Utegate: conspiracy or cock-up?
The events of Friday evening caught the Telegraph badly on the hop when the Prime Minister ruined Steve Lewis’s yarn about the Charlton-Grech email.
Utegate raises no end of questions for the media too
Whichever way you look at this whole thing, the media is up to its armpits in it, writes Scott Bridges.
