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The Blog, The Press, The Media: Seven's enemies in a tangle of paperwork
On Monday, a quiet little judgement slipped out of the Federal Court, shining a milky arc of light on the way life is conducted in the upper reaches of media management - to be precise, at the Dirty Digger's local information and opinion factory, News Ltd
Justice Brian Tamberlin's reasons for rejecting the company's claim of legal professional privilege to a heap of sensitive documents was most instructive. It is but one ingredient in a tangle of arm wrestling that is going on in the Federal Court before the commencement this year of a mighty case the Seven Network has brought against a busload of corporate enemies.
Seven and its principal owner, Kerry Stokes, allege a conspiracy by the Murdoch, Packer and Telstra interests to do them commercial damage. This followed the loss of football broadcast rights by Stokes's C7 pay TV channel, which is now as dead as a dodo.
Seven is not just after $700 million to $1 billion in damages but also court orders that would change the landscape in this constricted industry - for instance, forced divestment by Packer and Murdoch of their interests in Foxtel, access to the Foxtel cable and the transfer of NRL and AFL broadcast rights to Seven.
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