Australia's 'lack of good manners'?

[PrideOf]

I doubt Roebuck singlehandedly boosted circulation.

No journalist ever does. They're not expected to carry circulation on their own are they? But they all play their part.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

No journalist ever does.

So don't say: 'He sold papers'.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

He sold papers. Predominantly to those people who read him so they could complain about what he'd written, but media barons rarely differentiate dollars earned through outrage than those earned through great writing or journalism.

I stopped reading him after the Sikh warrior article, such an obvious play to write for the Indian market sickened me.

Or at least that was the best spin I could put on his writing such stuff.