. “At the most basic level of how journalism should operate, executives in charge of news in the public interest should not be suppressing news. It’s a pretty simple bar, and Will Lewis has failed to clear it,” says Chris Lehmann, D.C. bureau chief for The Nation.
Phone Hacking, Stolen Info: New Washington Post Publisher’s Ties to Murdoch Papers Raise Alarm
The once venerable The Australian, News Corp’s flagship publication, and where it began for Rupert Murdoch nationally, has found a resting place with Vogue.
In the seagull management style of billionaire scions, Lachlan Murdoch flew into Sydney last week to bandaid the leaking ship through a restructure – the common corporate euphemism for firing a lot of people.
He was accompanied by Rebekah Brooks, head of News UK, and famous for her involvement in the News International phone hacking scandal, from which she emerged scot-free in the eyes of an Old Bailey’s judge, albeit not so in the public perception. Nevertheless, Rupert rewarded her with a promotion, while her partner-in-hacking, Andrew Coulson, was sacked as David Cameron’s advisor and later went to jail for 18 months.
It is unclear what her role has been in the restructuring, although any discussion on journalism ethics is unlikely to have been on the agenda.
Source: Murdoch reshuffles News – lobs The Australian in with Vogue – Michael West
The Murdoch empire’s attempts to distract our attention from the monster it created and its legitimising of one of the most toxic candidates for the presidency of the US should be called for what it is, a last-ditch attempt to prop up an ugly and increasingly strident faux-populist demagogue who has only ever been interested in his own, personal gain and who will cheerfully destroy whatever remains of justice, democracy and decency in his path.
Murdoch Media’s persistent references to supposed “leftist media” in Australia is a strategy employed to convince its audience that it is the only source of “truth”, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.
If you think you’re in America Murdoch wants you to hold that thought
Blatant factual errors in an article published by The Australian on the Government’s immigration strategy could have been avoided with simple fact-checking. Dr Abul Rizvi sets the record straight.
Source: Murdoch article drums up hysteria with factual errors
We have a major problem with the damage that Rupert Murdoch has done to newspapers in Australia, and any self-respecting government should take steps to correct that as soon as possible.
Source: John Menadue on Rupert Murdoch, the Last Mogul – Pearls and Irritations
My father was Jewish, my mother is on the wall of the righteous meanwhile Murdoch media gives Carte Blanche to talking heads like Andrew Bolt whose family origins are from the notorious Nazi town of Aalsmeer in Holland who are weaponizing anti-Semitism to combat Humanism. Bolt even lies about his Education. His CV in order to boost his plausibility to the less educated while HR at Murdoch Media rubber stamps a fake as they have no space for genuine news delivered by a real person
The Israeli media has been interpreting the October 7 attack as ‘reaching Holocaust levels’, or as ‘an equivalent of the 9-11 attack in the US’: and in an atmosphere of fear and anger, Israeli citizens are said to perceive the Hamas slaughter as a threat to the country’s existence. In Australia, to defend Israel, to stifle critics of the bombing of Gaza, and to follow Prime Minister Netanyahu’s polarisation of choices between good and evil, between civilisation or barbarism, between a powerful law-abiding country or Hamas terrorists, charges of anti-Semitism are being weaponised.
Source: ‘The Australian’ weaponises anti-Semitism – Pearls and Irritations
The latest FBI data shows political attacks increasing again as Donald Trump dominates American politics. Alan Austin presents an update.
Source: U.S. violence surges as Trump and Murdoch cash in on anger and hatred
While journalists and cartoonists are getting sacked for supporting Gazans will Murdoch’s News Corpse sack James Campbell for falsely propagandizing what’s clearly the political fakery of Australia’s Zionist Federation? Surely there’s a clear defamation case here against Liebler Campbell and News Corp by Keating. By the way it’s been reported that Friedenberg drafted the letter and roped in this ship of fools. Good on Paul Keating for seeing through the propaganda plot
Today’s Melbourne Herald Sun carries a story that, along with other former Australian Prime Ministers, I will be a signature to a statement drafted by The Zionist Federation of Australia, condemning the attack by Hamas on Israel. This report is without foundation and is untrue.
Mark Leibler contacted me earlier last week proposing the prospective joint statement for my agreement and signature.
I told Leibler in a written message that I would not be agreeing to join other former Prime Ministers in authorising the statement.
That remains my position.
Statement by PJ Keating, 29 October 2023.
Mark Leibler contacted Paul Keating earlier last week proposing the prospective joint statement by past PMs. Paul Keating declined.
Source: Herald Sun report on support for Zionist Federation letter “untrue” – Pearls and Irritations
What’s it like to be the subject of News Corp coverage?
I was and always will be exploitation material in the eyes of the Murdoch press.
Source: National Times – A detailed and confronting article about NewsCorp… | Facebook
It can’t be ignored just how influential Murdoch has been to harm Democracy for the sake of increasing his Monopoly.
It has been astounding that a world-scale monster such as Rupert Murdoch has thus far fared well at the hands of his various profilists and biographers. Criticisms of him have either been too broad-brush to be useful, or too tempered with Waugh-derived facetiousness about press barons. Murdoch is far too fearsome an affront to any civilized values to escape with mere facetiousness.
Source: A Journey Into the Soul of Rupert Murdoch – CounterPunch.org
In winter 2022, at a hideaway in St Barts, Rupert Murdoch directed “sudden fury” at Donald Trump, who he thought would lose the 2024 Republican presidential primary to Ron DeSantis, but who the media mogul also said was likely to cost him “fifty million dollars”, through a lawsuit regarding Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
The lawsuit was filed by Dominion Voting Systems, over Fox News’s broadcast of Trump’s lies. Settled this April, it cost Murdoch considerably more than he predicted: $787.5m, to be precise.
Wolff’s new reporting may cause further embarrassment for Murdoch and Fox News.
Source: National Times – Rupert Murdoch thought $787.5m Dominion suit… | Facebook
It took two ‘effen’ long years for this toothless tiger the APC to come to this conclusion about Murdoch’s methodology. Murdoch Press is singularly the most complained about publisher in Australia whose staff dominates the APC membership. News Corp is more an insider trader in an a really independent press council. The Australian may not have specifically named Milligan but sure as hell handballed her, and allowed Sky After Dark’s Andrew Bolt and others to do that job of running off their mouths and constantly naming her as a fake journalist for the past two years. Bolt knew he was promoting bullshit and it’s why Justice Mordecai Bromberg found him ‘guilty’ of “bad, lazy, deceitful journalism” against a group of 5 Indigenous Australians he claimed weren’t.
The Murdoch broadsheet breached three of the general principles of the regulator when it accused Milligan, a former employee of the newspaper, of “bad, lazy, deceitful journalism” in the 2021 article headlined “Greatest enemy of truth is those who conspire to lie”.
Source: National Times – Editorial in the Australian that targeted ABC’s… | Facebook
Facts don’t matter as far as Murdoch media are concerned the conclusion wanted is what supports their revenues. They are turning to AI infrastructure to lower costs once established it won’t be costed again and again. However, they don’t do the same for the storage and delivery structure for renewables. They claim those costs repeat continuously. Fact Check= Pants on Fire
The Australian double dipped, producing another article from the same commentator that claimed that Graham had provided proof that CSIRO was confirming that its costings did not take into account transmission and storage. Graham says this is nonsense.
“If you are building a new wind and solar farm now, it will take advantage of infrastructure that already exists, Graham told RenewEconomy. As it would for new coal and gas. “There’s no point building or costing it again. It’s already there.”
Source: AEMO slams Murdoch media campaign that claims renewables are not low cost – Pearls and Irritations
In the past any accountability has been well after the damage was done, years in fact. This ass-hole has simply been allowed to get away with it even when proven wrong.
Murdoch media is to face scrutiny as Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission (AFMRC) works with leading researchers to monitor its Voice Referendum coverage. Leading researcher for the project, Dr Victoria Fielding reports.
Source: News Corp bullies to be held accountable over one-sided Voice coverage
Donald Trump’s latest criminal charges revolve around promoting the lie that the 2020 US Presidential election was stolen and right at the heart of promoting that lie has been Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Fox News and their other media outlets.
Murdoch continues to run his politically biased and opinionated “Talk TV” despite seemingly financial loss. What’s the Scam?
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has insisted he will not shut down TalkTV despite questions over the fledgling news channel’s future as it struggles to revive ailing viewer numbers.
Source: Rupert Murdoch to keep TalkTV open despite low viewing figures
Yesterday’s Flavor lost
Probably not surprising that Tucker’s rants on Twitter aren’t exactly setting the world on fire. Fox News viewers skew heavily to the one-foot-in-the-grave demographic and probably aren’t that jacked to jump on Twitter for their Tucker fix.
Murdoch and The LNP come flying in punching down
But for the Coalition, the strategy is clear. It wants to reduce the tone of debate around constitutional reform down to the level of an undergraduate culture-war exercise. This is where Sky After Dark comes in. The AFR reported yesterday that plans are underway for a 24-hour news channel entirely dedicated to the voice. Imagine being unable to sleep – you’re restless just thinking about whether you can pay the next electricity bill and nervous about the Reserve Bank’s decision on interest rates – so you get up at 3am to make yourself a warm drink and flick on the television, only to find Rita Panahi shouting at you because a Lions Club somewhere has come out in support of the voice. It’s the stuff of nightmares – but sadly there is a market for it.
Source: “In case… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
The media campaign against Brittany Higgins was a revenge tactic by the Murdoch press after she exposed the Liberal Party’s ignorance of women’s issues, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.
Source: Media’s weaponisation of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations
Murdochs laundering themselves won’t rid them of the indelible stain they created.
Since disgraced former President Donald Trump was indicted for federal criminal charges related to his possession of classified documents, his supporters at outlets owned by right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch have claimed that the Presidential Records Act exonerates him from the charges. But a recent news article published by Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal debunked these claims about the law, which designates all official papers from a presidency as property of the American people rather than the former president.
Murdoch’s Reporting, “Nothing to See Here”
Fox News hosts and guests and other right-wing media figures are minimizing the public health risk of the cloud of particulate matter from Canadian forest fires that descended on much of the United States this week and mocking people for taking steps to protect themselves.
Source: With Canadian wildfires, Fox News follows its COVID playbook | Media Matters for America
Murdoch in America is worried about the profits
The Wall Street Journal is very concerned about the effects of the debt limit fight…on military contractors. In an article (5/12/23) headlined “Debt-Ceiling Fight Weighs on Defense Industry,” the paper reported, “If the US defaults on its debt and is unable to pay all its bills this summer, the pain will fall squarely on the defense industry.”
Source: WSJ Worries Debt Limit Fight Could Jeopardize Military Contractors’ Profit – scheerpost.com
Murdoch’s incalcuable damage to Australia and Victoria
Rupert Murdoch has done incalculable harm to the democratic experiment throughout the AUKUS nations and beyond. In Victoria, his propaganda campaigns have made him the magnate who cried wolf. The state’s integrity infrastructure is in perilous condition but Newscorp’s constant invective against Labor governments, and Premier Dan Andrew’s government in particular, has made it more difficult to fix.
Source: Dan Andrews and Murdoch crying wolf – Pearls and Irritations
Rupert Murdoch’s propagandist Samantha Maiden published an article on Tuesday (9/5/23) in a deliberate and calculated attempt to publicly shame Brittany Higgins.
Gabriel Sherman’s cover story in Vanity Fair – ‘Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama’ – has generated a lot of attention, and with good reason. Murdoch runs one of the most powerful but also one of the most secretive media corporations in the English-speaking world.
Source: The current state of Rupert Murdoch and his empire – Pearls and Irritations
The Nazification of Fox News and the Dominion lawsuit threw the Murdoch’s into a panic
A recurring theme of his show during the six years that it ran in prime time on Fox News was the displacement of white Americans by people of colour. Carlson often framed topics in the news as part of a larger struggle between “us” and “them,” with immigrants and other marginalised groups steadily and surely taking from whites what had long been theirs: political and cultural power in the United States.
The text message by Tucker Carlson set off panic at the highest level of Fox News and contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to the TV host being fired.
Source: ‘It’s not how white men fight’: The Tucker Carlson text that sent Fox News into a panic
“I’m paid to predict things,” Carlson tells us at one point. “I try and think a lot about what connects certain outcomes that I should have seen before they occurred.” Given what was just about to happen to Carlson less than three days later, this indicates either that Carlson was terrible at his job, or that he never understood what he was paid for to begin with.
Carlson showed himself as the paragon of propaganda, courageously telling the Heritage Foundation gala exactly what it wanted to hear.
Walking up to the edge of what might destroy Fox News, and then doing an about-face, is the business strategy of the network’s owner. About-Face,
Source: Ejection of Tucker Carlson Is Classic “Reverse Ferret” by Rupert Murdoch
Should we be surprised Murdoch simply sees settlements as a cost of doing business. He makes far more when breaking rules to get sensationalist stories and knows royalty is high on the British must-watch and hear-about list.
Murdoch firm ‘paid secret phone-hacking settlement to Prince William’
ACMA findings are merely the result of a tree counting with no consideration or concept of the forest that will continue to generate the same unwanted results that breach the ACMA standards. In other words, they’re not a critical analysis of the system that underpins Sky News. The business model that lends structure to, and operates Sky News. They can’t or aren’t interested in seeing the forest only the trees and not the foundation on which Sky News and The Outsider’s corrupt practice is based. Anchors are chosen to model themselves on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity et.al to be numbers and rating chasers that attract audiences for advertisers and create a platform to attract and influence the widest audience possible with no ethical or journalistic standards in mind. They are there to simply lobby for ultra-conservative monied interests which happen to align with the regressive far right and not news.
They are simply Murdoch’s Media a business for profit first and news merely incidental. Best seen and understood through the prism, blueprint or business framework of PR, propagandists and lobbyists for hire. A tool for the sale of influence by any means an unwitting but voting public. Fox News USA has recently magnified the very nature of Murdoch’s corrupt practices and put them on show globally. However, you won’t hear about it on Sky News or in 65% of Australia’s mainstream print media.
The authority found the program, which is hosted by Rowan Dean, Rita Panahi, and James Morrow and broadcast on Sky News, had breached its responsibilities to present news accurately and fairly and to distinguish clearly between factual material and commentary on four separate occasions between October and December 2021.
Everyone knew Murudoch’s business model was the priority. He and Carlson were a marriage made in heaven. Everyone also knew Murdoch serially divorced if disenchanted.
“When I got to Tucker, it was different,” explained Grossberg. “As the texts came out, it revealed my suspicions, he was looking for ratings bait purely and was looking for power. It was a combination of ratings and power and manipulating the audience and manipulating the political system.”
How did this fellow who professed to be an honest broker of truth become a racist demagogue and promoter of far-right disinformation and dangerous conspiracy theories? As evidence in the Dominion lawsuit revealed, there is no longer any question that Carlson sold his integrity. On air, he was a champion of Donald Trump and provided a platform for Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election. Off air, he told his colleagues that Trump was a liar and that he despised Trump. No media figure as prominent (and as well-paid) as Carlson has been shown to be such a cowardly hypocrite. From crusading journalist to con man—that’s quite the trip.
The mighty Murdoch media empire is now facing the consequences of spreading false narratives and costly political lies, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.
News Corp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch’s battle against small news outlet Crikey is set to continue in a brewing dispute over an almost $600,000 pool of supporter funds after the media scion dropped his defamation litigation.
Source: Lachlan Murdoch’s defamation stoush with news outlet Crikey is not over yet
After paying a massive legal settlement for lies over the 2020 Presidential Election, Fox News isn’t likely to stop spreading climate misinformation, writes Steve Bishop.
Source: Murdoch unlikely to stop climate fibs despite $1.2 billion cost of lies
The Worst Health, Immigration and Home Affairs Minister on record. Facts vs Political point scoring.
it seems sufficient time has passed since the biggest labour trafficking scam in Australia’s history, a scam that started when Peter Dutton was Immigration Minister, for the Murdoch press to start agitating about asylum seekers who have arrived by plane.
Source: Coalition and Murdoch media distort truth about asylum seekers
Fox Corp. executives Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch could be forced to testify in the defamation suit against Fox News and Fox Corp, a Delaware judge said Wedneday.
The Murdochs cry free speech as a defense in the Dominion lawsuit while simultaneously attempting to suppress an Australian media company
Fox News faces a second defamation lawsuit from another voting technology company over its coverage of TrumpWorld’s false claims about the 2020 election amid damning revelations in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against the network.
I believe Tucker Carlson is one of the most notorious traitors to the United States — not to mention common sense — since the days of Joe McCarthy.
Source: Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News: A network of treason, sedition and lies | Salon.com
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You think a guy wearing animal skins and horns was admitted to the sacred halls of the U.S. government and given a guided tour by nice security guards on January 6, 2021? Why would you doubt it? After all, Tucker Carlson showed you those sweet and tender moments of a tourist in quite distinctive garb being escorted from place to place by government employees, right. And those pictures were taken from a video provided to Mr. Carlson by Kevin McCarthy, the majority leader of the House of Representatives? Don’t believe your own eyes anymore? Don’t believe your elected representatives? Are you really that cynical? Or that high? Or that addled by mainstream media?
Crazed insurrectionists swarming all over the Capitol Building and shitting on Nancy Pelosi’s desk? You think a thing like that could happen in the United States of America? And you call yourself a patriot? Better get right with what’s real, don’t ya think?
Source: Nothing Is Real, and Nothing to Get Hung About | The Smirking Chimp
It seems Lachlan and his father Rupert have significantly different views “in public” than they do “in private”. Rupert’s views and concerns were expressed very clearly in demanding Fox News “pivot” in order to save its ratings and share value from severely Bungie diving. In order to do that truth, facts, and their real beliefs needed to be abandoned in favour of what their audience wants to hear and not what it needed to. Lachlan well he simply abandoned showing his beliefs years ago when he proved to be a failure as an executive and investor years ago. He burnt millions with One Tel, Ch10 and is now aiming for strike 3.
At the March 9 Morgan Stanley 2023 Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Fox Corp. CEO and Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch downplayed the seriousness of Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News, saying that “the noise about the lawsuit is not about the law and is not about journalism, and more about politics and that is reflective of the polarized society we live in.”
Source: Senate Republicans Rip Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Riot Coverage | HuffPost Latest News
“There’s quite a bit of video you haven’t seen and that video tells a very different story about what happened on January 6” while images flashed on-screen showing some members of the mob milling around and taking photos after besieging and breaking into the building.
Source: Debunking Tucker Carlson’s dishonest January 6 exposé | Media Matters for America
Carlson aired clips of the Capitol riots provided to him by Speaker McCarthy, resulting in outrage from some members of McCarthy’s own party.
Source: Republicans Break With Kevin McCarthy, Tucker Carlson Over Jan. 6 Footage
The recently released filings have made it clear that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are actively involved in Fox’s coverage and personnel decisions
Reminder of the UK,
Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch may have damaged the company’s defense in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit — but some media analysts believe he is setting up Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to “take the fall” in the case.
This is the moral equivalent to the hacking charges brought against Murdoch in the UK. Murdoch simply revealed all the confidentialities provided to him by the Dems and their agents. Would you sign a contract with this man or his companies?
“During Trump’s campaign, Rupert provided Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, with Fox confidential information about Biden’s ads, along with debate strategy … (providing Kushner a preview of Biden’s ads before they were public),” the filing alleges, citing Murdoch’s sworn deposition.
Source: Fox News is Republican propaganda, according to Rupert Murdoch | Media Matters for America
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