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You know, that double-entendre just keeps getting better. Anyway, a couple of days before the election, lefty blogger Robert Corr noted a Crikey mailout claiming the Age was forced to take a pro-Howard line in its editorial by their Editor-in-chief, supposedly on the basis that “backing Latham wasnt in the commercial interests of the company.” Clearly then, the media aren’t liberal at all, right?

Many staffers at 250 Spencer Street are disgusted, and rightly so. Three years ago, Fairfax took the line that Howard was a liar and a xenophobe who was whipping the public into a fear frenzy over national security. Little has changed since then, (except our Editor-in-Chief), who – it is said – was alone in his decision to support the Coalition this time around.