The Australian caught out by Defamer joke

Australia’s only national newspaper, the News Corp owned The Australian has been caught out reporting as fact a joke by the Gawker Media owned Defamer that reported that Mel Gibson was set to direct a mini-series on the Holocaust for the American ABC TV network with “the visionary Gibson’€™s breathtaking pitch for the miniseries’€™ climactic scene, a Braveheart-style battle with thousands of Jewish and Nazi combatants rushing at each other across an open field.” I remember reading the hard copy of the Oz yesterday and thinking that I don’t recall anything like this in my readings of WW2. Heads to roll at the Oz perhaps?

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