Now Chanticleer joins the Fin retreat; showing signs of a return to journalism and reporting the news rather than trying to make it. Headline from today's front page.

Chanticleer

Has Gina Rinehart saved Chris Ellison from the MinRes mess?

After two weeks of pain, MinRes shareholders have something to smile about thanks to a big gas deal. But a tricky decision still looms for the board.

If you read Thomson's original article, which was almost a textbook case of how to completely misrepresent the facts
( per the last Board update to ASX), you will realise how much of a case of backtracking this is.

It was one of the worst pieces of journalism i have seen from a paper that until now has masqueraded as a quality paper.

the change in editors from stutchbury is having disastrous consequences on their standards, down there with the worst
of murdocks henchmen.

Wazz