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westaussieguy wrote:

If Forrest had any common sense, he would refrain from even contemplating a foray into newspaper print media.
May have been a good idea back in the olden days when grandad was a boy.
Not in this day and age.
The old news print would have started taking a hit when tv was first introduced all them years ago and started to appear in more and more homes.

Agree, it's all old hat and been tried before, Lang Hancock tried it with the Sunday Independent to push his agenda,Holmes a Court tried it to push his interests with the Western Mail, both outlets went bust, Gina Rheinhart tried it again with Fairfax and didnt get far.

You can get your rmessage across on Twitter and Instagram these days.

If someone was silly enough to try a news paper print again, it would still be the same dribble and false news handed out by the evil Murdoch , Sky networking.
Just more bullshit.

I did clarify this many days ago, any moron understands print is dead but you all whinge about Channel Stokes and The Worst yet you all bag the idea of someone who has real clout staring an alternative online news outlet. Or is it because it’s my idea? 😂🤣

You've always got The Guardian and The ABC DD.

You probably know more about The Guardian than me mate. What’s wrong with it? Sometimes comes up when I’m browsing Google news and I’ve used it to quote a story sometimes because I know most of you here don’t subscribe to the West.

Plenty of Sport News in The Guardian , AFL but no WAFL!

It was Peter Wright, Lang Hancock's partner who owned the Sunday Independent 

Andrew Forrest is very selective with his rhetoric so doubt we'd see any improvement! To my knowledge he is yet to clarify any of the inaccuracies the West has reported on!

Worm Burner wrote:

It was Peter Wright, Lang Hancock's partner who owned the Sunday Independent 

Andrew Forrest is very selective with his rhetoric so doubt we'd see any improvement! To my knowledge he is yet to clarify any of the inaccuracies the West has reported on!

It was Hancock and Wright that set up the Sunday Independent mainly to promote mining, Hancock sold his share to Wright in the 70s, and Wright sold it to the Truth in the 80s before he kicked the bucket, who eventually sold it to News Corp owner of the Sunday Times who closed it down late 80s, I did a stint working there about 1982, the place was stuffed then, worked with crap equipment, had a skeleton staff of journos most had been put off, they used to literally read through other papers cut the stories out with scissors ( which they got me to do) and reprint them as their own. The sports section was pretty small, one stand out was the cartoonist who had his own big office with heaps of art gear and was all sound proof glass so not disturbed, apparently Hancocks idea was that he was big on cartoons that took the piss out of his political rivals.  It was running at a big loss then and only made money out of printing colour shopping junk mail and lift outs, apparently the one bit of good gear it had at the time was the only full colour print press in the State.  

Well there you go there is precedence there of mining giants dipping their considerable clout into media, probably coin they can afford to burn just to put up a fight with the incumbent media outlets.

The Wests criticism of Twiggy’s FMG and his hydrogen ambitions got about a good 10 minute run on Media Watch the other night as the lead story. I reckon where there’s smoke there is fire and Twiggy and Stokes have definitely had a billionaires falling out. Both were going to pour their billions into fixing up the old power stations in Coogee and East Perth, now Stokes has taken his bat and ball home and pulled out leaving Twiggy and the state to do it all.

Twiggy might just have the fire in the belly to do it. Yes probably a non profitable exercise but that wouldn’t be his prime motivation. In any case Stokes is getting on so he isn’t going to be around too much longer.

Are you following this DD? Already said there has been a precedent, and already pointed out it didn't work and didn't last. And the media world has moved on a lot since then, most people get their news from social media these days.