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Critics accuse Fox of allowing language that fuels antisemitism | Media | The Guardian

Fox Business Network condemned comments by a guest on host Lou Dobbs’ show that critics saw as an antisemitic trope.

Fox Business Network condemned comments by a guest on host Lou Dobbs’s show that critics saw as an antisemitic trope.

Chris Farrell of the conservative group Judicial Watch said in an appearance on Lou Dobbs Tonight that the caravan of Central American migrants seeking to reach the United States is organized by groups whose affiliates “are getting money from the Soros-occupied state department”.

Soros is a financier and liberal donor and activist who is frequently the target of antisemitic vitriol. Last week, a pipe bomb was found in his mailbox, allegedly sent by a Florida man who promoted rightwing conspiracy theories about Soros.

The Dobbs segment originally aired on Thursday, but drew notice after it was rebroadcast Saturday, after the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Critics likened Farrell’s language to the term “Zionist-occupied government,” a trope used in white nationalist circles to suggest the US government is controlled by Jews.

via Critics accuse Fox of allowing language that fuels antisemitism | Media | The Guardian

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Fox host blames Democrats for bombs sent to Democrats, speculates the bomber may have wanted to “garner sympathy for Democrats”

When you don’t have an ABC in Australia this is what you can expect (ODT)

via Fox host blames Democrats for bombs sent to Democrats, speculates the bomber may have wanted to “garner sympathy for Democrats”

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MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice

But Daily Beast readers interested in knowing why Rothkopf is qualified to opine on matters relating to Saudi Arabia and other matters of foreign affairs would have no idea that he is paid a substantial sum by one of the region’s most repressive regimes to disseminate messaging on its behalf. That’s because there is nothing in any of Rothkopf’s articles for The Daily Beast that indicates this, nor does his bio page for the journal include this rather significant fact:

via MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice

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UK press riddled with spooks, conduits for intelligence agencies keen to score one for the Empire — RT Op-ed

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That a free press underpins British democracy is an enduring myth that has been allowed to go unchallenged, up there with unicorns and the Loch Ness Monster.

Because if a clutch of right-wing reactionary billionaires owning the bulk of a nation’s major newspaper titles and media constitutes a free press, the word ‘free’ has been stripped and shorn of all meaning.

Yet, while the aforementioned – let’s be kind here – ‘anomaly’ has long been understood by anyone of adult years with the ability to put their underpants on the right way round in the morning, the extent to which the British establishment press and media has been penetrated by intelligence services and acts as a conduit for their agenda is less well known.
Take Con Coughlin, for example, Defence Editor at The Daily Telegraph (more colloquially and accurately known as The Daily Torygraph). Coughlin is a product of a private school production line that has unleashed more knaves on the world than spittle on a dentist’s chair. While his outing as an MI6 asset may have been a long time coming, now that it has, it marks yet another nail in the coffin of a media class whose relationship to truth and objectivity belongs in the box marked non-existent.

via UK press riddled with spooks, conduits for intelligence agencies keen to score one for the Empire — RT Op-ed

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Kashoggi, Yemen and the War on Journalism

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(MENA Tidningen) – For the past week, the news cycle on the Middle East has been focused, for obvious reasons, on the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Turkish authorities claim that they have hard evidence for the murder, which the Saudis are finding it increasingly hard to deny. The hired propaganda media of the Saudis are spinning a post-denial alibi of “rogue elements” to salvage the reputation of MBS as a great reformer. In this they are aided by President Trump, who would rather sell billions of dollars worth of weapons than reflect on the multiple human rights abuses of the kingdom. The Arab states who feast on Saudi money are, understandably in the Hobbesian sense, defending their royal oil daddies.

via Kashoggi, Yemen and the War on Journalism

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Trump’s Greatest Nightmare Is Here: Low Ratings | Crooks and Liars

In addition to the lack of accountability, we have inundation of the airwaves with lies and misinformation. Those two things often go hand in hand in this administration, and journalists are increasingly at a loss to find a way just to manage them both. Furthermore, David Zurawik predicted that the lower Trumplestiltzkin’s ratings get, the angrier and more unpredictable and frenetic he’ll be, leading to an even more difficult job for journalists, and a more chaotic time for people they’re trying to inform.

via Trump’s Greatest Nightmare Is Here: Low Ratings | Crooks and Liars

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Saudi Media Casts Khashoggi Disappearance as a Conspiracy, Claims Qatar Owns Washington Post

TOPSHOT - Protestors hold pictures of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a demonstration in front of the Saudi Arabian consulate on October 8, 2018 in Istanbul. - Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who has been critical towards the Saudi government has gone missing after visiting the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, the Washington Post reported. Turkey has sought permission to search Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul after a prominent journalist from the kingdom went missing last week following a visit to the building, Turkish television reported on October 8. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP) (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)

Saudis have learnt from Trump and Fox News just yell “fake news” hard and for long enough and a good bit of policing and you will get the support of your people and some from outside as well. After all Trump is onside. (ODT)

In Saudi Arabia, major media outlets have cast the disappearance and apparent murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a foreign conspiracy to denigrate the image of the kingdom. The media accounts, which come from outlets run with the backing of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf monarchies, are spinning the coverage of Khashoggi’s disappearance as a plot by rival governments and political groups to hurt the kingdom — going so far as to make false claims about the Washington Post’s owners.

via Saudi Media Casts Khashoggi Disappearance as a Conspiracy, Claims Qatar Owns Washington Post

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Medecins Sans Frontieres Calls Situation On Nauru ‘Beyond Desperate’

PHNOM PENH, Oct 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has pulled its mental health workers off Nauru on government orders, the medical charity said on Wednesday, calling the situation of asylum seekers and refugees on the Pacific island “beyond desperate”.

MSF said international staff had left Nauru, where it was providing mental health care to locals, refugees and those seeking asylum. Australia sends people trying to reach its shores to an offshore processing centre there.

“MSF is deeply concerned for the health and wellbeing of its patients and describes the mental health situation of asylum seekers and refugees on the island as ‘beyond desperate,'” it said in a statement.

Medecins Sans Frontieres Calls Situation On Nauru ‘Beyond Desperate’

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Geoffrey Rush Has Had Another Pretrial Win In Court Over His Defamation Lawsuit

Journalist Jonathon Moran (right) is being sued by Geoffrey Rush.

The judge in the looming defamation showdown between film star Geoffrey Rush and a News Corp publisher has slammed the media company for its “undeniably unsatisfactory” conduct in the lawsuit thus far.

via Geoffrey Rush Has Had Another Pretrial Win In Court Over His Defamation Lawsuit

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New research shows how Australia’s newsrooms are failing minority communities

Our study analysed 1,366 media articles, examining the sentiment towards minority communities in them. We found that over a third of hard news stories contained negative sentiments towards minority communities, while more than half of the editorials and commentary pieces portrayed minority communities in a negative light.

There also needs to be a concerted effort to change the makeup of Australia’s newsrooms so that the leadership and journalists reflect the cultural diversity in Australia.

The sample included about 80% news stories, 4% features and 16% editorials and commentaries on selected events and issues during a six-month period.

 

via New research shows how Australia’s newsrooms are failing minority communities

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Fifty-Thousand Come Together in Germany to Defend Ancient Forest and Fight Coal

If this were a pro-coal rally Murdoch media would have it as front page news world wide. It’s not the silence is deafening. Where is the MSM? ( ODT )

“This rally is about demanding that the German government break the deadlock of a climate policy that has failed to reduce carbon emissions for nearly a decade now, but it also is about showing governments everywhere that a growing climate movement is demanding an end to dirty and outdated fossil fuels.”

via Fifty-Thousand Come Together in Germany to Defend Ancient Forest and Fight Coal

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The Australian fined $155,000 for contempt in Setka case

In the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning, Justice Lesley Taylor said the case was a “very serious example” of contempt and fined Nationwide News Pty Ltd, the publishers of The Australian, $155,000. Justice Taylor also ordered the company to pay court costs of $45,000 on an indemnity basis.

via The Australian fined $155,000 for contempt in Setka case

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John Pilger: Hold The Front Page. The Reporters Are Missing – New Matilda

Hersh revealed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia, Parry exposed Iran-Contra, a drugs and gun-running conspiracy that led to the White House. In 2016, they separately produced compelling evidence that the Assad government in Syria had not used chemical weapons. They were not forgiven.

When he was US commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus declared what he called “a war of perception… conducted continuously using the news media”. What really mattered was not the facts but the way the story played in the United States. The undeclared enemy was, as always, an informed and critical public at home.

via John Pilger: Hold The Front Page. The Reporters Are Missing – New Matilda

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Michelle Guthrie’s sudden ABC exit and the Morrison / Murdoch connection

It certainly doesn’t sound as though there had been discussions over several months which also included the managing director. Indeed, if a ‘long and detailed consideration of the matter’ had been underway, Guthrie being sacked without a succession plan already in place seems to back up her version of events. What was the ABC Board discussing – without the MD – if not who would replace her?

That her departure from the ABC was first “exclusively” reported by The Australian, apparently, before the ABC newsrooms had had their morning coffees, would also indicate that only the ABC Board (minus its MD), the Government and possibly News Corp were aware of the sudden need to fire Guthrie.

via Michelle Guthrie’s sudden ABC exit and the Morrison / Murdoch connection

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Why Comcast aggressive bid for Sky is actually defensive

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It’s a defensive acquisition with an aggressive price.

Comcast is clearly looking to massively increase its geographical reach and swell its subscriber numbers, across the US, UK and Europe which this deal will achieve.

It would appear that this bulking up is what Comcast sees as its salvation – and its management was crowing loudly over the weekend about Sky TV’s great platform, it’s wonderful brand and talented management.
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via Why Comcast aggressive bid for Sky is actually defensive

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Hold the front page, the reporters are missing

Independent journalism is a far more reliable source of news than the mainstream media’s biased coverage of events, with emerging sources of critical thinking banding together to keep the spirit alive, writes John Pilger.

Hold the front page, the reporters are missing

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Media power: why the full story of Murdoch, Stokes and the Liberal leadership spill needs to be told

Media power: why the full story of Murdoch, Stokes and the Liberal leadership spill needs to be told

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What did Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes have to do with the Liberal leadership spill? – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Mr Turnbull walks behind Mr Dutton, who is standing at the despatch box.

Australia’s Democracy corpratized and brought to it’s knees for over a decade. (ODT)

Malcom Turnbull’s demise as Australia’s 29th prime minister was unusual for many reasons, and truly unique for one: his was the first known prime ministership to be the subject of a billionaires’ tug of war between the nation’s most powerful media moguls.

via What did Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes have to do with the Liberal leadership spill? – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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This Is a Big Deal: California Goes All in on Clean Energy | Climate Reality

But more importantly, this is California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and home to 40 million people, making a huge statement of intent that it’s serious about solving the climate crisis. And not just making a statement – SB 100 will mean the state reshapes its power sector and replaces dirty coal, oil, and gas facilities with wind, solar, and other clean energy technologies to do it.

If you think this bill sends a message to the rest of the country that if California can go all in on clean energy, there’s no reason they can’t too – you’re right. And fossil fuel companies have every reason to be terrified.

via This Is a Big Deal: California Goes All in on Clean Energy | Climate Reality

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Fox News’ Trump-Loving ‘Psychology Expert’ Is A Fake | Crooks and Liars

Guess if Andrew Bolt can self declare that he was educated at Adelaide Uni without ever having a degree anything goes on Murdoch Media when it comes to fake Expertise and commentary (ODT)

The Daily Beast further notes that Loudon’s new book’s cover, the one whose “true psychological theory” she declared proved Trump’s mental awesomeness, falsely states she has a Ph.D. in psychology, along with other dubious references to her professional acumen. According to The Daily Beast, the publisher claimed it had “simplified” her Ph.D. credential because her subject was in “the field of psychology.” The publisher promised, “We will be updating” her credentials in future printings and marketing materials. However, the publisher would not say whether Loudon reviewed and approved of the jacket copy before publication, as is customary.

Loudon also says she’s a member of Trump’s “2020 media advisory board” which seems to be an informal, two-person “board” at most. Yet, after The Daily Beast’s exposé was published, Trump tweeted his enthusiastic support for her:

Watch Hannity say he’ll “rely on the fact that you are a psychologist” to Loudon below, in a Daily Beast video. It also shows her introduced as a “psychology expert” repeatedly on Fox and Russia’s RT.

via Fox News’ Trump-Loving ‘Psychology Expert’ Is A Fake | Crooks and Liars

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Were the good old days that good?

I have written this column for eight years and not once have I been censored or told to take a particular stance on an issue. For all its flaws, The Age tries to be fair and endeavours to publish the truth.

via Were the good old days that good?

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That Racist Serena Williams Cartoon Is So Very Australian | HuffPost

The Herald Sun responded to the uproar as Australians often respond to charges and evidence of racism: with denial and disdai

The Herald Sun’s response, to cry censorship and cast itself as the victim of oppression at the hands of coddled PC-types and oversensitive Americans, is predictable and transparent (it is also, by the way, terribly self-serious).

To expect national publications to refrain from publishing racist and sexist jokes is not censorship or political correctness run amok. Nor is it imposing American standards on Australian humor. It’s a request for consideration, fairness and common sense. It’s a request to take serious matters seriously. It is a simple, quintessentially Australian ask: Don’t be a dickhead.

via That Racist Serena Williams Cartoon Is So Very Australian | HuffPost

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The Herald Sun’s Serena Williams cartoon draws on a long and damaging history of racist caricature

Bill Leek’s Cartoon got the same and it was deserved.(ODT)

In the aftermath of the dramatic US Open women’s final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight sketched a cartoon of Williams that has drawn opprobrium worldwide.

Critics such as writer J.K. Rowling and basketball player Ben Simmons have denounced it as racist and sexist. However, the Herald Sun’s editor defended Knight, saying the cartoon had “nothing to do with gender or race”.

via The Herald Sun’s Serena Williams cartoon draws on a long and damaging history of racist caricature

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Collingwood brawl was not ‘gang violence’, legal service claims

Legal observers who were present at the brawl outside a Collingwood pub at the weekend say alcohol was to blame and not “gang behaviour”.

Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre executive officer Anthony Kelly said volunteers went to the 66 Records label launch at the Gasometer Hotel on Saturday night due to fears of police racial profiling.

He dismissed claims 200 people were involved in the brawl and said the issue was alcohol not ethnicity.

Dressed in high vis vests, the legal observers said they were there to ensure police and private security staff did not infringe on civil and legal rights.

The lawyers said blaming the weekend violence on race was “simplistic and incorrect”.

Collingwood brawl was not ‘gang violence’, legal service claims

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Alan Jones says he is ‘very comfortable’ with his role in Liberal implosion

Alan Jones said he was 'comfortable' with his role in the Liberal party implosion.

Another Bolt hero but much much more influential than him. Everyone can pick up s phone according to Jones (ODT)

In the wake of the Liberal Party leadership upheaval – and amid debate over issues ranging from climate change, to bullying, to his own allegedly nefarious influence on the body politic – Jones had the grumps, to put it mildly.
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via Alan Jones says he is ‘very comfortable’ with his role in Liberal implosion

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Media Files: What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?

You don’t need to be a journalist or a news junkie to be affected by the media. Its enormous influence in shaping our culture, politics and society means we all have a stake in how it functions, who it serves and the way it’s changing.

That’s why, today, we’re launching the first episode of Media Files, a new podcast featuring leading journalism researchers and working journalists taking a critical look at where the media is getting it right – and where there might be cause for concern.

Today’s episode is all about the Nine Fairfax merger, the largest media amalgamation in Australia in 30 years. Eric Beecher of Private Media, Stephen Mayne of the Mayne Report and ABC finance presenter Alan Kohler join presenters Andrew Dodd and Andrea Carson to discuss the implications for diversity and quality journalism.

via Media Files: What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?

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Press barons, including Rupert Murdoch, could get public money following govt review — RT UK News

Press barons, including Rupert Murdoch, could get public money following govt review

Public money could be given to billionaire press barons such as Rupert Murdoch, ostensibly so the government can ‘sell the idea’ that they are safeguarding the future of British newspapers, according to a press freedom campaigner.

Brian Cathcart, a Byline contributor and a founder of Hacked Off, suggests that since the review panel, which is charged with finding new funding solutions, is jam-packed with representatives of the mainstream newspaper industry, “it’s obvious they are meant to be the beneficiaries.”

via Press barons, including Rupert Murdoch, could get public money following govt review — RT UK News

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Sinclair’s shameful legacy now includes exploiting a woman’s murder to attack immigrants

In the Anglosphere  ultra-conservatives are all singing from the same song book and Murdoch’s the Whale. (ODT)

You’d think Sinclair Broadcast Group would lay low for a while and reassess its options after an extremely damaging month. Instead, the conservative media giant will force news stations across the country to air a 90-second segment exploiting the murder of Iowa woman Mollie Tibbetts to echo President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants.

via Sinclair’s shameful legacy now includes exploiting a woman’s murder to attack immigrants

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With His South Africa Tweet, Trump Became a Megaphone for a White-Supremacist Talking Point | The Nation

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Taking his lead from Tucker Carlson, the president is spreading the myth of a global “white genocide.”

via With His South Africa Tweet, Trump Became a Megaphone for a White-Supremacist Talking Point | The Nation

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Former MI6 spy v WikiLeaks editor: Who really deserves 1st Amendment protection? — RT Op-ed

Protest in support of Assange in London, UK - 31 Jul 2018 © Brais G. Rouco/Global Look Press

If ‘Dirty Dossier’ author Christopher Steele deserves protection under the 1st Amendment but WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange doesn’t, then the concept of a free press is merely a distant memory.

via Former MI6 spy v WikiLeaks editor: Who really deserves 1st Amendment protection? — RT Op-ed

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The Rise Of The Far-Right Demands An Urgent Progressive Response – New Matilda

Australian Politics

Progressives need to mobilise to combat the rise of the far-right in Australia, writes Ben Eltham. The time for complacency is over.

Progressives need to mobilize Labour and focus on the root cause. Labour needs to mobilize international as it’s very much the common ground. Currently Corporate Media is paid to insure the opposite. (ODT

via The Rise Of The Far-Right Demands An Urgent Progressive Response – New Matilda

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From Flash Floods To Forest Fires – The Extreme Weather Breaking Records Worldwide This Summer

From Flash Floods To Forest Fires – The Extreme Weather Breaking Records Worldwide This Summer

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How Fraser Anning and Blair Cottrell gamed the media

Image result for Cartoon throwing a Dead Moggy on the table

Boris Johnson is another. He once wrote about the insight of his Australian campaign mastermind Lynton Crosby who perfected the “dead cat on the table” strategy. When you wanted to avoid an issue, you said something outrageous – throwing a dead cat on the table, so to speak – to change the media cycle.

Back then it was a temporary diversionary tactic. Now, though, the tactic has become akin to cat armageddon: dead cat after dead cat after dead cat. Keep manufacturing outrage. Never apologise. Soak up all the free media coverage you can get.

via How Fraser Anning and Blair Cottrell gamed the media

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EXCLUSIVE: Sleeping Giants awake and rise up against Sky and News Corp

THE anonymous online group, Sleeping Giants Oz, has this week come to the attention of conservative News Corp columnists and Sky News TV hosts, who fear they may lose their salaries if advertisers continue to pull away.

The Daily Telegraph columnist and Sky News reporter, Caroline Marcus, is the latest News Corp drone to join in.

via EXCLUSIVE: Sleeping Giants awake and rise up against Sky and News Corp

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Stopping the outrage cycle | The Monthly

Today we learnt that – no surprise here – Fraser Anning’s first speech was absolutely deliberate. Sky News played leaked audio of a telephone conversation with former One Nation adviser Jim Savage, in which he says he told Anning months ago to make his first speech count, to “say something really controversial”, and that he called Anning yesterday to tell him not to apologise but to “hold your f***ing nerve”. Anning’s speechwriter, Richard Howard, used to work for Roberts and is reportedly [$] “fascinated with Nazi Germany”. One of Anning’s own staffers, Richard Mcgilvray, today resigned in disgust. Union donors, like ETU and CFMEU, are walking away from Katter’s Australia Party, which may come to regret standing behind the One Nation defector. So much for Fraser Anning. The next election can’t come soon enough, although with Queensland’s track record of electing racists to the federal parliament, one can never be sure.

via Stopping the outrage cycle | The Monthly

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As hundreds of newspapers plan editorials to denounce Trump’s war on the press, Fox hosts attack the newspapers

Media Unity vs Trump and Murdoch (ODT)

Fox News and Fox Business hosts are slamming hundreds of newspapers as “anti-Trump” and “fake news” for coordinating to publish editorials on August 16 denouncing President Donald Trump’s war on the press.

Trump and his administration publicly attacked news organizations and specific journalists hundreds of times in just his first year in office. Though he routinely attacked news organizations during his presidential campaign and the transition period between his election and inauguration, Trump’s anti-press rhetoric reached a new low in February 2017, when he began calling news organizations “the enemy of the American people”

via As hundreds of newspapers plan editorials to denounce Trump’s war on the press, Fox hosts attack the newspapers

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Emma Husar, journalistic ethics and ‘digital idiots’

Just gonna leave the MEAA Journalist Code of Ethics here for any who thinks journalists have no obligation but to report a good story not naming names or anything.

The manner in which some journalists are defending their perceived right to publish salacious slurs against a woman, just because they can, is sickening. There’s little point in engaging with these people.

There’s a much-needed conversation about journalistic ethics begging to be had, but there’s no point in arguing ethics with people who simply don’t seem to have any.

via Emma Husar, journalistic ethics and ‘digital idiots’

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Ray Hadley, the Sky News ban and the rise of ‘Romper Stomper’ fascism

Will this change Hadley? It won’t change his media mates unfortunately(ODT)

If Daniel Hadley’s issues are mental health-related, then I certainly hope he receives the appropriate care and rehabilitation and makes a full recovery. I also hope that his father may gain a better understanding of the consequences of stress and take that into consideration the next time he thinks about bullying someone, or stigmatising part of the community on his radio program.

via Ray Hadley, the Sky News ban and the rise of ‘Romper Stomper’ fascism

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Here are 52 examples of Laura Ingraham’s racism

  • She claimed that children torn from their parents as a result of the Trump administration policies and who were not yet reunited with their families were being protected by the administration because, “due to domestic or drug abuse, many of these parents are now deemed unfit to care for their children or dangerous for their children.”……Bolt’s claim of “no Stolen Generation”
  • During a 2013 appearance on the now-defunct Fox show The O’Reilly Factor, Ingraham claimed that a lot of recent immigrants “have wreaked havoc upon communities.”…………Bolt’s Claims against Africans and Muslims

Where the Sky News, Australian right and Andrew Bolt get their formulaic Racist Bigotry from the American Fox News desk. This what they attribute as their News and Opinion. They don’t win awards so they have their own Award Show. Wake up Australia (ODT)

Here are 52 examples of Laura Ingraham’s racism

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News Corporation chalks up $1.9bn loss as Foxtel’s value written down by another billion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

News Corporation sign in New York

Global media giant News Corporation has suffered another nasty full year loss of $US1.4 billion ($1.9 billion) as it continues to write down the value of its Australian pay-TV subsidiary, Foxtel.

billion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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‘It was my error’: Sky News boss gave Cottrell interview the go-ahead

Andrew Bolt tells us their ratings are HUGE off a small base. Reality Bytes (ODT)

“This could easily happen at any time,” one Sky insider said. “We’ve got hosts who aren’t journalists and people are just trying to get the programs to air. There’s no time to have a think about whether this is a good guest or not.”

Outside the Sky News studios, there is a view management manufactures outrage in a bid to grow the 24-hour channel’s relatively small audience. But staff say this isn’t the case.

via ‘It was my error’: Sky News boss gave Cottrell interview the go-ahead

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Another Bolt from the white Right

Another Bolt from the white Right

Let’s be clear. Bolt’s language about Jews is redolent of the past. In response to the article, the President of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Jennifer Huppert, said that there was ‘a rise in ultra-right-wing activity in Victoria and this type of activity can fuel antisemitic, anti-Islam and general racist debate and language in our community.’

The Australian Jewish Democratic society expressed their anger and then stated:

In response we say to Andrew Bolt and white supremacists everywhere: we are not interested in assimilating to White Australia. We are not interested in being subjects of your racist attacks. We – as migrants, as people who have lived in this country for a long time, as people who have faced racism and antisemitism of so many different guises over such a long period of time – are here to tell you that we will win and you will lose. Your vision for how society should operate will never succeed. We will continue to work with other others to ensure that a strong, cohesive, anti-racist, justice-based society is the future for “us” all.

Bolt also attacked the descendants of 1950s immigrants. He wrote that in Five Dock, Sydney,

‘ … one in seven residents still speak Italian at home.’

Clearly, Andrew Bolt’s othering is all-embracing — from white Jews and those speaking a foreign language to Muslims of any colour and brown and black people.

Another Bolt from the white Right

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Andrew Bolt got his facts wrong. But that’s not the only thing wrong with his column | Robert Manne | Opinion | The Guardian

Herald-Sun columnist Andrew Bolt

Bolt’s column illustrates the steady and sinister drift of Australia’s national conversation towards a permissible racism

 

Murdoch press – has been towards refusing permission to anti-Anzac sentiment and granting permission to racism. This latter drift can be demonstrated objectively.

On 6 January 1996, a letter, written by the preselected Liberal party candidate for Ipswich, Pauline Hanson, was published in the Queensland Times. It claimed nothing more than showering the admittedly once-wronged Aboriginal people with “money, facilities and opportunities” not available to other Australians was harming them and “causing racism”. The letter caused pandemonium at Liberal party headquarters. Hanson was stripped of her preselection. (The rest as they say is history.) Today, such a letter would be barely noticed by anyone.

Twenty-two years later, on 2 August 2018, the country’s most influential columnist, Andrew Bolt, regularly published in four Murdoch tabloids, claimed that Australia was being destroyed by waves of immigrants – Chinese, Jews, Vietnamese, Indians, Muslims etc – who refused to assimilate and who, as colonists, treated Australia not as a home but as a hotel. That a column like this could be published in the mainstream media, unthinkable 20 years ago, is a consequence of the steady and sinister and perilous drift of Australia’s national conversation towards a permissible racism.

Andrew Bolt got his facts wrong. But that’s not the only thing wrong with his column | Robert Manne | Opinion | The Guardian

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‘Russia’s Rep’ Confides His Racist Fears To Hannity: ‘Democrats Are Trying To Replace Us’ | Crooks and Liars

Hannity, of course, set the scene, by lying to his listeners about some crazy scheme whereupon Democrats want to yank 34 million people out of Central America and resettle them here because they want “open borders,” whatever those are. And of course they don’t, but immigration and fears of immigration are the reason Trump is in office right now. This was a straight play for old white bigots to get off their ass and vote for Putin’s guy.

As if Rohrabacher’s nonsense with Hannity wasn’t enough to disqualify him, there’s also this new report about his intimate little dinners with Mariia Butina, the Russian agent arrested last week.

via ‘Russia’s Rep’ Confides His Racist Fears To Hannity: ‘Democrats Are Trying To Replace Us’ | Crooks and Liars

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Paul Keating’s loathing of all things Packer will never die

2 Media Companies will control 86% of Australia’s Media we need the ABC more than ever but they are demanding the LNP destroy it as well, Where is free speech when it’s privatised and becomes just another product to sell to corporate buyers. (ODT)

In the 1980s, Keating as Treasurer had overseen new media rules that prevented media owners from owning both TV stations and newspapers. They had to choose, as he said, whether to be ”queens of the screen or princes of print”.

Packer thus was ring-fenced into being a queen of the screen, while Rupert Murdoch gained more and more of the nation’s print outlets.

Packer, from a newspaper-owning family, wasn’t suitably gratified. He wanted to get his hands on Fairfax and what he called its “rivers of gold” — massive income from classified advertisements in its newspapers.

And so, a feud grew.

Keating revealed his old penchant for doing over his enemies slowly.

“Kerry Packer had the Nine Network chase me in private life,” he said.

“But I’m a big boy, I know how to punch. People said to me after a whole series of things on 60 Minutes. They said, ‘Mr Keating, are you going to take Mr Packer to court for defamation?’ I said, ‘No, I have more expensive remedies in mind for Mr Packer’.

“That was taking Fairfax from him, which I had [Senator] Brian Harradine do in 1997 to 1998. In other words, I made sure he didn’t allow Howard to get a majority to let Turnbull do what he did today.”

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Nine takeover of Fairfax Media welcomed by Malcolm Turnbull

Cutting the ABC and Concentration of Private MSM spells the era of Fake News is growing, Australia needs teh ABC more than ever (ODT)

“This proposed merger means it is about to get even more concentrated,” Ms Rowland said, declaring it “beyond belief” for Senator Fifield to proclaim his government supported media diversity.

“Democracy suffers if you have too few media voices, workers suffer when mergers inevitably lead to job losses and citizens, consumers and communities get less diversity, less coverage and less choice.”

via Nine takeover of Fairfax Media welcomed by Malcolm Turnbull

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Nine-Fairfax merger a disaster for Australian journalism and democracy

Nine-Fairfax merger a disaster for Australian journalism and democracy

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Nine takeover of Fairfax Media welcomed by Malcolm Turnbull

 

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has welcomed the announcement of a takeover of Fairfax Media by Nine Entertainment, affirming the merger was only possible because of media ownership reforms he made last year.

The Labor opposition, however, has expressed fears about greater concentration of media ownership and the job losses which it said would “inevitably” flow from a merger of the two media houses.

In one of the biggest shake-ups in Australian media history, Fairfax chief executive Greg Hywood announced a deal in which Nine would own 51.1 per cent of the new entity under the Nine brand, while Fairfax Media – publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age – would cease to exist.

via Nine takeover of Fairfax Media welcomed by Malcolm Turnbull

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By-election bias: How Rupert Murdoch runs all of Australia’s mainstream media

But what many have been wondering is why, if Murdoch wants to “Kill Bill”, all the other mainstream media – Fairfax, Seven, Nine, Ten, SBS, the ABC, even Australia’s feeble version of the UK Guardian – have been running the exact same line: that if the ALP lose in Longman and/or Braddon in this weekend’s “Super Saturday” by-elections, Shorten’s leadership will be in dire peril, due to his lack of popularity with the Australian public? Yet virtually nothing has been said about any pressure on Malcolm Turnbull, whose administration has just lost an unprecedented 36 consecutive News Corp run Newspolls in a row?

We’ll clear up why Australia’s mainly wrong media are running the same line on this issue ‒ as they do on virtually every subject ‒ but first let’s examine if the threat to Shorten’s leadership is, in fact, real.

via By-election bias: How Rupert Murdoch runs all of Australia’s mainstream media

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‘Fake News’ is Everywhere — 20+ Times Government & Media Got Caught Brainwashing Us

Israel

According to Israeli born Professor Edward Said, “no country and no lobby” has been as effective at spreading media propaganda and “misinformation” in the United States better than the government of Israel.[67] Naturally, as the field of media and journalism have branched out into the internet, so too has their capabilities to manipulate public opinion.

Back in 2009, the Israeli government announced plans to employ citizens in the dissemination of online propaganda.[68] In 2012, the Electronic Intifada broke a similar story about leaked documents claiming that Israeli students were offered an alluring $2,000 a month, to work from home for just several hours a week of online propaganda. And in 2013, the government setup a University scholarship program for students willing to peddle their agenda.

Alon Liel, former director-general of the Israeli foreign ministry went on record expressing his outrage, by calling it “quite disgusting… University students should be educated to think freely. When you buy the mind of a student, he becomes a puppet of the Israeli government grant… You can give a grant to do social work or teach but not to do propaganda on controversial issues for the government.”[69]

via ‘Fake News’ is Everywhere — 20+ Times Government & Media Got Caught Brainwashing Us