Stokes hired Cronin as editor-in-chief of West Australian Newspapers after he bought the paper in 2008. After the interview aired – and Weekly Beast heard it in full – we noticed it had been deleted from the 6PR website. A few days later Cronin returned to the airways to clarify, correct and apologise to Stokes. The original interview was reposted with the offending material edited out. We can’t repeat the potentially defamatory part of Cronin’s interview but we can tell you he said he was worried about concentration of media ownership, pointing to Stokes owning the West Australian, the Sunday Times, PerthNow and the Seven network, on top of his regional and suburban assets.