What would a Dutton Liberal leadership mean for the Liberals and the country?

[Not Important]

Because he was Chairman of the Board not Editor of the newspaper.

so you don't think he exerted much influence in that capacity, t.p?

 

[The Punter]

so you don't think he exerted much influence in that capacity, t.p?

I think if he had, half of Nick McKenzie's stuff wouldn't have been printed. Anyway, that's not how a good corporate board works. It sets strategic direction and leaves operational decisions to management. Costello left the Nine Entertainment Board because of poor behaviour outside of his work on the board.

So no, I don't think he exerted that kind of influence, and as far as the media wars are concerned, criticism of The Age, SMH and also the ABC (from both sides) is totally overblown.