Inane. Always.

Terry McCrann on the journalism of Fairfax’s Michael West, who sees corporate tax-dodgers where ever his contact network of bolshie professors and leftoid think tanks direct his trusting gaze:

Over the past year West has peddled a series of increasingly bizarre, but quite simply, utterly false, claims about News Corporation, publisher of this paper, and vividly imaginative — in the deeper recesses of whatever functions as West’s brain — schemes to not pay Australian tax.

One thing you won’t see in West’s reporting is any admission that there might have been something wrong in the first iteration of his latest pseudo-scoop about the taxes paid by companies a good deal more sane and successful than his own employer. As The Australian‘s Darren Davidson reports, errors vanish down the Fairfax memory hole without explanation or apology.

While Fairfax is fading fast, McCrann is just getting started. His entire, blistering column is available via the link below.

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