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Awkward questions follow admission in defamation trial that Seven paid Lehrmann’s rent for a year. Plus: Rod Carnegie survives, whatever Nine may say

Crikey readers weigh in on paid trips to Israel for reporters, the actions of editors at News Corp and Nine, and coverage of the Gaza war in general.

Three newspapers, owned by Nine, had subpoenaed documents and correspondence between Stokes, Seven and the former soldier’s legal team

Do we have a commercial media in Australia, or just corporations that accidentally produce journalism while using their influence to dictate policy?

Seven Network and its chairman Kerry Stokes have lost their bid to hang on to emails relating to Ben Roberts-Smith's failed defamation suit against newspapers.

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan water deal with Senator David Van who Thorpe has accused of sexual assault, and the Australian privacy watchdog said it couldn’t do anything about a company accessing personal emails because the employee had used a work laptop.

Fallout continues over Nine papers’ decision to restrict journalists who signed an open letter calling on improved Israel-Gaza coverage.

Judge rules in favour of Nine newspapers after former soldier sued over articles portraying him as a war criminal

The journalists who signed an open letter to Australian media organisations last week calling for ethical reporting on the war in Gaza have succeeded in intensifying the dispute over whether the coverage has been fair. At the same time, they’ve called their own impartiality into question.

Advocates for media censorship will be delighted Nine newspapers have decided to gag journalists who want balanced coverage of the Hamas-Israel conflict.

‘They’ve taken a conversation we were hoping to start in good faith with the industry as a whole and turned Nine (and their own hypocrisy over Israel trips) into part of the story,’ said one journalist.