Murdoch Press Savages Australian Rival in Pay TV Row

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By: Alison Rourke and Dan Sabbagh | The Guardian

Australia's raucous press is no stranger to confrontational journalism, but the last week has seen a bitter war of words between the country's two largest newspaper groups, with a Rupert Murdoch subsidiary accusing its rival of "trashed journalistic principles".

Titles owned by Murdoch's News Limited – led by the Australian, the country's only national daily – have pitched themselves against rivals at Fairfax Media in a slanging match characterised by personal insults, accusations of deliberate falsehoods and commercially motivated reporting.
































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