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Australian Books

Fairfax under fire

24 August 2013

9:00 AM

24 August 2013

9:00 AM

Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch & the Ultimate Revenge Pamela Williams

HarperCollins, pp.352, $39.99, ISBN: ISBN 9780732297664

Fairfax: The Rise and Fall Colleen Ryan

Miegunyah Press, pp.320, $32.99, ISBN: ISBN 9780522862454

What a spectacle. A Fairfax journalist flanked by a beaming James Packer, making no secret of his loathing for her employer, and a Murdoch. Their purpose? To help launch a book on the crushing of the storied publisher and to gloat.

Yet this event in Sydney last month scarcely seems to have raised an eyebrow outside the media Beltway.

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Malcolm Schmidtke is a former Fairfax editor and has held senior positions at the Age and the Australian Financial Review. He was editor of the Australian in the 1990s and last worked for News Limited at the Herald Sun between 2005 and 2010.

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