“The West Australian’s editor Paul Armstrong might have finally prevailed over his bitter political enemies Alan Carpenter and Jim McGinty with the defeat of the Labor state government, but it will probably be a short-lived victory as Stokes and most independent observers clearly believe he should go.

The fate of Armstrong will be the first big test of whether Stokes is exercising control, because Armstrong ran quite a partisan campaign against the billionaire during this year’s proxy battle.

Then there’s the issue of Seven being more than $100 million under water on its 23% stake in WAN and the stock is down another 23c at $8.52 this morning.

Stokes will want some fast action on things like The West’s lame website, falling circulation and the ongoing disputes with newsagents.”

http://business.watoday.com.au/business/stokes-to-join-wan-board-20080916-4hji.html

will it have any effect ojn the quality of the rag?

will Nurry and Headstrong get the arse?

I am intumescent with anticipation

http://www.watoday.com.au/national/liberal-defends-games-freebie-20080912-4ey7.html

this might just be the one likeable thing that Basher has ever done, but it still doesn’t stop be from looking forward to watching her get boned when Nelson gets rolled

but then Noyne had to mess up their big coup with poor sound quality and inane questions from Dixie Normouse

maybe Stokes thought that however lame Dixie might be Rick Hairpiece would be worse