Australia already has one of the highest concentrations of media ownership in the country, with around 90% of newspaper readership being shared by Fairfax Media and Rupert Murdoch's News Limited papers (the Murdoch press has around 70% of readership).
She goes for FT types, figuring that the paper's readership acts as some kind of economic vetting system.
She was writing obituaries for a union newspaper in Iowa for the summer, and she discussed her investigations into the nature of the paper's readership.
But, even in the mid-1950s, two-thirds of the paper's readership lay outside the city and its influence was already international.
Owners GMG, which also publishes the Guardian and MediaGuardian.co.uk, said the quality and reach of the paper's readership had improved thanks to the free edition.
Not even 10% of all US daily newspapers represent parity with their community, in terms of adequately representing the demographics of the paper's readership.
There were special numbers devoted to American literature, and the United States came to provide an important part of the paper's readership.
Readers of both the Guardian and the Independent were even more likely to support tougher regulation, but the size of the samples of each paper's readership means there is a higher margin for error.
Picking a fight with the media is never a good idea at the best of times; still less when it is a paper whose readership are the very people you want to seduce.
