social media?? it's a shame for him that he couldn't just close them all down

The treachery  included the leaking of information of cabinet meeting discussions that was fed to the feverish media.

apparently newscorp are concerned that they will no longer be able to source inside information- the PMO was one of the main contributors to leaks, with the Daily Telegraph being known amongst govt ministers as  the 'govt gazette'. He can not just leak what he wanted leaked and complain about anyone else.

“And if there’s one piece of advice I can give to the media, it’s this – refuse to print self-serving claims, that the person making them won’t put his or her name to. Refuse to connive or dishonour, by acting as the assassin’s knife

what the public want from the media are facts,  that is their job., so that means hearing the bad along with the good.... he made a similar comment to Leigh Sales on the 7.30 report.    Whty don't you just concentrate on the good things.... when the press attacked Gillard anfd Rudd, they did not just publish good things, so why should abbott expect different. particularly as he used newsorp as a vehicle to get into office