I read a diversity of sources including the online SMH. If anything, Fairfax has suffered by not pandering to its audience the way News Limited does.
Both Fairfax and News Limited may be headed into dinosaur land. The business model for print journalism has disintegrated in the storm of internet based communications. In the past, Fairfax ran a relatively independent news service underpinned by substantial and enduring revenue from classified advertising.
All that is now gone.
"The Australian" has to my knowledge, never turned a profit for most of the past decade.
