Media mogul and Ben Roberts-Smith benefactor Kerry Stokes now denies he called the authors of the revelations about the fallen war hero “scumbag journalists”.
The slur is jarring on many fronts, but what makes it reprehensible is that it was reported to have come from a person who employs hundreds of journalists though his Seven West Media, including TV stations throughout regional and metropolitan Australia, Perth’s only daily newspaper and 19 regional newspapers.
