The Daily Mail called it “the biggest story in Australia on Thursday” and the News Corp tabloids agreed, serving up salacious front pages that editors of a scandal sheet can be proud of. The cricket-themed headlines “Hit for Sex”, “Sex and Out” and “Slapped for Sex” led the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph and Courier Mail papers in the morning and the websites throughout the day.
What was the story the Daily Mail was so excited about that it even chastised the ABC and Channel Nine for not covering it? “The story has been lapped up by Channel Seven, almost all Australian news websites and even a handful of international outlets, including the New York Post – but there has been radio silence from Channel Nine and the ABC,” the Mail said. For the record, the Guardian ignored it as well, until now.
