Crikey's story on Michael Smith
Reproduced directly from www.michaelsmithnews.com (could only see half of it and Crikey wanted me to join to view it at their blog). I'm sitting on the bed in Michael Smith's Melbourne hotel room and he has a question for me: "Do you feel dirty?" Do I feel "tainted", he wants to know, by venturing into "misogynist grubby nut-job headquarters"? Smith is the former talkback host who lost his job at Sydney radio station 2UE last year for trying to pursue a 16-year-old story about a union fraud committed by Julia Gillard's former boyfriend. Since then, the shock jock in exile has continued to play a pivotal -- if almost totally unacknowledged -- role in the resurrection of the story. And he's done it armed with nothing more than an iPhone, an internet connection, a ring binder bulging with documents and a conviction he's onto one of the greatest scandals in Australian political history. I'd assumed our interview, arranged ...