AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun

Alan Howe
From:Herald Sun
November 19, 2012

THE London newspaper shouted “It was The Sun wot won it” the morning after the slim, unlikely and widely untipped Conservative victory in Britain’s 1992 elections.

The Sun had robustly campaigned for the Tories and was boldly taking the credit for their unexpected win.

I thought of that amusing headline last week when Catholic Cardinal George Pell curiously blamed the media for the pressure that last week led Prime Minister Julia Gillard to call a royal commission into child sexual abuse.

But it’s not “the Herald Sun wot won it”. Persistently unavoidable reports in this newspaper and others, and on radio and television, merely reinforced the fact that such an inquiry was needed, and inevitable.