What sort of shovel do you bring to a knife fight?
Dr Mumbo was intrigued to read Greg Hywood’s note to staff yesterday, which saw the media CEO unleash on his rival News Corp Australia after copping something of a barrage in recent months.
But whilst most attention will be lavished on some of the claims in the pretty sensational email, including accusing his rivals of spreading “lies” about Fairfax and being “at war with itself over it future”, Dr Mumbo was most interested in Hywood’s use of the word ‘splade’ in the subject line: “It is time to meet a splade with a shovel“.
What is a “splade” you ask?
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what hywood means is that he prefers to use a large blunt instrument where others choose more subtle methods