Rear Window’s Joe Aston – now in the SMH too

And you have to take the rough with the smooth. Today’s SMH was also compelled to carry a story that backed away from its original claim in Monday’s paper that Kim Williams had stormed out and resigned to the Arts Minister. The story by senor journo Rick Fenely was carried on page 2. But interestingly, the AFR managed to truly bury Rear Window’s mistake by coming up with a nice new angle of a dispute between the SOH and another catering company, thereby sugaring the pill. And yet that story was either not shared with the SMH or, as is more likely, the SMH declined to take a day two story from the AFR after Monday’s retraction.

It is a sign of the times that Mr Aston is so heavily promoted in Fairfax.