… Code taking money from a profitable business to prop up an unprofitable one.

That wasn’t the professor’s point - that was the reporter’s.

It seems an accurate reporting of the law, but true. My apologies.

The reason for this was news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said.

Media studies is not journalism. It’s an adjacent field. While she certainly has a point from her perspective, I wouldn’t call it the final arbiter in this case.