Tag: Murdoch Media
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
Indigenous Australians are as divided by income and wealth as any group in Australia however, the fact is 1 in 2 First Nation Peoples live far, far, below the poverty line, which isn’t the case for Australians as a whole. They are represented as the lowest on every social metric. Price and Mundine are regarded as “coconuts” or “plastic “Koories” and not real Indigenous Australians as they aren’t part of the majority or 70% nor do they accept the generation after generation of social trauma and the consequences passed down by colonialism that haven’t been resolved for 250 years. The fact, that Indigenous Australians weren’t even recognized as full citizens until 1969. And they still remain under the administration of an Aboriginal Affairs Department whose promises budgets, plans, and strategies have changed like the weather with minimal success.
Yes23 is a simple request to be listened to with the hope of more self-administration of social welfare and other issues decided “in the communities” by being allowed some input by the First Nation peoples themselves. To be allowed the self-respect that was never allowed to grow and develop.
Stan Grant Adam Goodes, Jacinta Price, and Warren Mundine might all be part of the middle-class professional minority but they too are divided in who they are speaking for. As are Noel Pearson Marcia Langton and Lidia Thorpe. The Upper class Indigenous are as politically divided as white people are but their divisions are better resolved among the First Nations Peoples themselves than the Colonial political system imposed on them by the white fella that’s failed them until now. The Voice and/or Treaty might reveal the complexity and political division among Indigenous Australians but The Uluru Statement and process that resulted in the request for a Voice is the majority and result of by Indigenous Australians themselves. That year of effort put in was dismissed by the Turnbull LNP without discussion politically pushed by Dutton’s far-right “Monkey Pod Room”, a far-right minority of Liberals and the National Party. Those who believe in ignoring and denying the reality and historical facts of colonialism and the reality of better outcomes of a Voice for Indigeneity given by most other Nations on the planet.
The ‘disinformation’ (read: lies and bullshit) being propagated about the indigenous Voice to Parliament by the Murdoch media, among others, harms our society. It promotes division, celebrates and cultivates ignorance and bigotry, oppresses a minority and diminishes us all. Why do we tolerate such behaviour?
Source: Freedom of the press barons? – Pearls and Irritations
Murdoch Media still keeps telling the West that this is all a hoax
Campaigners also argue that “Big Oil CEOs and politicians like Ron DeSantis must be held accountable for knowingly fueling the climate crisis that heats our oceans and strengthens deadly storms.”
Source: Florida-Bound Biden Faces Calls to Declare Climate Emergency After Hurricane Idalia
Who and why Murdoch bends over so readily to please.
Republican super PACs in the House and Senate raked in major donations from the fossil fuel industry this year. Proving to be money well spent, GOP lawmakers are ramping up a campaign of outright climate denial.
Source: The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Paying the GOP Handsomely to Deny Climate Change
Honestly AI or Andrew Bolt. Murdoch would have to sack AI or heavily edit it in order to maintain his quid pro quo arrangements with the IPA and LNP
So there we have it. AI could take the place of Andrew Bolt tomorrow but it would probably be sacked due to its ability to consider a counter argument.
The fact is very few Australians know who Andrew Bolt is let alone read or listen to this puppet rants. He is simply a worker a talking head who climbed the News Corp seniority ladder as a dutiful ass-licker. A cog in Murdoch’s Corporate media empire that’s been poisoning Australia’s political and social discourse since the 70s when Rupert had his vision. That news or facts no longer mattered and he wasn’t in the business of providing it. He was in the business of controlling it, creating it for profit in the service of those that could pay. Ratings are his priority and selling them. Unfortunately in Australia that meant factless, and partisan social and political discourse for money.
Having constructive debates, rather than resorting to name-calling, is the way forward for a healthy political and social climate, writes Patrick Lukins.
With a Federal Labor Government and Labor governments in all mainland states, and with the Murdoch machine facing increased pressure in the U.S., managing editor Michelle Pini proposes that this is the opportune moment for a royal commission into the Murdoch media.
Developments in the U.S. courts concerning the Murdoch media empire have implications well beyond the USA, as Alan Austin reports.
Source: Latest evidence for Turnbull thesis good news for battered Americans
An explosive legal filing reveals evidence showing the network is crooked from top to bottom.
Source: The Corruption at Fox News Is Worse Than You Assumed – Mother Jones
The good news for the Murdoch media is that it’s not the most distrusted brand in Australia – despite the efforts of its journalists.
The bad news is that – according to the Roy Morgan Research Most Trusted and Distrusted Brands research – it is the fifth most distrusted behind Facebook, Optus, Telstra and Amazon. It just edges out Harvey Norman, whose ads in newspapers provoke much irritation, which rated sixth.
There are probably many reasons for the rating but the main ones are probably its unrelenting attacks on anything vaguely progressive; its rabid commentators; and, it is attempts to re-frame any debate so as to favour the LNP, attack the ALP and wage war on the woke.
Rupert Murdoch has a history of bribing British police for stories which News UK CEO Rebekah Brooks admitted in 2003 as per the below video. So, is Murdoch now bribing Australian police given ABC journalist Mark Reddie has publicly accused the Australian Federal Police of giving special treatment to the News Corp paper Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph?
Is Rupert Murdoch bribing police again for stories given an ABC journalist says the AFP are giving scoops to News Corp?Kangaroo Court of Australia
Murdoch media isn’t just a fake News Corporation by what it reports but also by what it omits. It collects ratings from fake, and no news alike which they onsell to moneyed interests. That’s private and political interests alike to misguide the public while calling it information.
Can advertisers sell a product as crudely and in that way? Is there any public obligation in America to sell truth or is that only in a courtroom with its bible? It appears there’s none as even the courts, and the very highest in the land, can be bought.
Of great interest will be the outcome of Murdoch vs Dominion voting machines for the current future of American News and the current ongoing sale of press propaganda.
Fox, by shielding its viewers from the information the committee details, is continuing its complicity in Trump’s effort to subvert the election and the resulting mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The success of Rupert’s exercise in spraying cologne on a chum bucket is yet to be proven but it is off to a bad start. Leave aside for the moment that Spud, sorry…Cuddles, is a 20 metre swimmer in a 50 metre pool who thinks shit takes are Japanese mushrooms and Feng Shui is a Chinese tennis player – in his first press conference as Lib leader Spuddley Too-right said; “I want to give you this assurance, we’ve heard loud and clear from the [partisanship-weary] Australian public” to be qualified a short time later with “Our job is to make things difficult for the Government“…so, lessons learnt, eh? Back to an obstructionist, Abbottesque future where after only three weeks Cuddles’ troops are laying the blame for nine years of Tory corruption, incompetence and wreckage at Labor’s feet.
Source: Cuddly Pete – » The Australian Independent Media Network
My thought for the day Would you rather play in a team of champions or a champion team? ( John Lord )
So, what comes out of all this rejection of Murdoch and his acolytes? There are still some good sports pages to read and pics galore, but I wouldn’t trust the politics.
In debating their tactics with colleagues and friends, I have noticed that the Sky (and Fox) viewership seems to be marked by a collective personality disorder whereby the viewer feels almost as though they’ve been let into a secret society. Arguably, this has been the election in which the bias of its tilted reporting has been exposed?
When the polls have been analysed to the nth degree, and all the data is done and dusted, one of the biggest stories of this election will be how Murdoch’s News Corp failed to have the desired influence on the result. From newspapers to television; it has become impotent. Maybe forever. I want to think so.
Source: One that the Murdoch media got horribly wrong – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Warringah, NSW
Meanwhile, on Murdoch’s SKY NEWS’s OUTSIDERS,little ROWAN DEAN was spruiking up a 4.71% swing AGAINST LNP candidate Katherine Deves, Morrison’s Captain’s pick, as a great victory for the LNP in Warringah. These sideshow scripts Murdoch salespeople are expected to parrot to an audience really do beggar belief. But in a Paul Murrayesque unconvincing style DEAN, the unmade bed, actually promised 3 years of PR support for Dutton and Deves going forward, no matter what,to bring the LNP back and in government in 2025. He was immediately followed by a Harvey Norman ad.
Warringah, NSW On this page Two Candidate Preferred First Preferences First Preferences By Vote Type Two Candidate Preferred By Vote Type Polling places Two Candidate Preferred By Polling Place Declaration Vote Scrutiny Progress Profile of Warringah
Source: Warringah, NSW – AEC Tally Room
Australia has a bipartisan gun control policy though one wonders if it will last as there are minorities that want to see it relaxed if not removed. We also have compulsory voting that suggests a majority-ruled Democracy but it fails to be reflected in our minority lead governments. Then the art of negotiation comes into play and history shows that the ALP is far better when one counts the number of bills passed. It’s not reflected in the job being done by the LNP, IPA, and Murdoch alliance. Their focus has been working on staying in power and so much money is spent on that alone that social progress and government services get left behind. When the front pages of Murdoch and the mainstream private media aren’t News or information and our public broadcaster the ABC has been reduced to a shadow of itself Democracy becomes a shadow of itself and politics dominates and narrows government service.
In the face of such dark events and horrific loss of life, it’s important to emphasize that we can and must do better as a nation. The work extends from battling against hateful political extremism and strengthening gun laws to taking greater action in communities throughout the country to stop mass shootings before they happen.
Source: Violent Far-Right Extremism Is Fueling Mass Shootings in America – Mother Jones
Murdoch Doesn’t Sell News. His business is a Quid pro Quo cash for comment model, the wealthy side of Politics and only a portion of a nation are his clients.
Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo actively worked to craft Trump campaign messaging and undermine election results
The Stat Dec Morrison said he’d sign, but walked back on, was never really pursued in the Main Stream Media. Yet he called for those that actually signed stat decs to be charged and prosecuted, but he “never” went to the police and issued a formal complaint. How fake and like Trump is Morrison?
Scott Morrison has in recent days accused Michael Towke of the criminal offence of lying in a statutory declaration but has not gone to the police. Why? Morrison says Towke’s allegations are “bitter and malicious slurs” and if that is the case then Towke has committed a crime and also defamed Morrison and he could sue. But Morrison is doing neither, gone to the police or sued, at this stage.
MURDOCH MEDIA AND SCOTT MORRISON DANCE TOGETHER
Fox News clips of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard trashing Ukraine and the Biden administration were a mainstay of news coverage this week on Russian state television.
Source: Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War
Morrison as Treasurer Planned the elimination of Australia’s Motor Industry
Fighting Fake news with REAL 30/12/21; American Dreams, Producers not Planners; Murdoch Media exposed; Morrison Promises; Planning and hiding;
Plan to advocate for carbon neutrality in Australia is not likely to change Fox News’ climate denial coverage in the U.S.
AMONGST THE MANY reasons why Morrison is virtually untouchable is that the most powerful news outlet in the country – Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp – chooses not to emphasise his political problems.
Source: Scott Morrison shielded by Murdoch protection racket
Sky News Regional – a new free-to-air television offering – has just launched in regional areas across Australia with such luminaries as Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt, Cory Bernardi, Paul Murray, Rowan Dean and Peta Credlin hustling to get into our loungerooms, to flood regional airways between Cairns and Kalgoorlie, with anti-immigration rhetoric, climate denialism, conservative claptrap and vaccine misinformation all masquerading as news.
Source: When news is not enough : we make it up ! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Andrew Bolt threads his way through this maze by attacking politicians who he says have “smeared” the people who took part in the anti-lockdown marches on July 25. At the same time he remains uncharacteristically agnostic on whether lockdowns are right. Last year Bolt was calling lockdowns an over-reaction. It evidently makes a difference when it is your side of politics doing the locking down. As Australia enters a pre-election phase, it matters what the Murdoch media do. Its newspapers represent about two-thirds of the nation’s metropolitan daily circulation, with monopolies in Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart. In August, Sky News will re-enter free-to-air television via several Southern Cross Austereo regional channels, which it claims will give it an audience of seven million. What the Telegraph does is particularly important because it is Murdoch’s main populist political attack dog in Australia. It circulates widely in western Sydney, where there are several ma
If Rowan Dean were Katy Hopkins he wouldn’t be kicked out of the country he’d be kicked on to the Bolt Report to help Andrew Bolt out.
A Chinese ship that approached the Queensland coast in the hopes of undermining Australian democracy has packed it in after accidentally catching an episode of Outsiders. “We were planning to weaken the fabric of Australian democracy, but then we heard Rowan Dean do a segment on Dr Suess books and we thought, what’s the point? We might just leave you guys to it,” the commander said as he steered the boat around and headed back to Beijing.
Source: Chinese Spy Ship Turns Back After Accidentally Picking Up Sky News Transmission | The Shovel
The Treasury Department told Congress last month that under-collected taxes are on track to total $7 trillion over the next decade, or about 15% of total tax revenues that would be owed under the law, thanks in part to budget cuts over the past decade that have sharply scaled back audits. Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Mazur recently explained to Congress that this trend has negative consequences, including higher tax rates elsewhere in the economy — that is, the costs are borne by people who follow the rules — as well as the fact that “persistent non-compliance also undermines confidence in the fairness of our tax system.” As other experts have explained, much of the “tax gap” as it is known comes from higher-income earners. While nearly all regular wage income is properly reported, other forms of income such as business partnerships and capital gains have higher rates of misreporting. (This news also comes in the context of a political environment in which billionaire executives such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have successfully avoided having to even pay federal income taxes in some years, by receiving much of their compensation as stock in their own companies.) Wall Street
Source: Wall Street Journal columnist: Defund the tax police | Media Matters for America
On a near-daily basis, Fox News hosts, anchors, and guests spew misinformation and false narratives aimed at tanking efforts to address the climate crisis. These tactics to delay climate action or downplay the seriousness of our warming planet have often been referred to as the new climate denial — since the actual denial of the scientific consensus that climate change is happening has mostly been pushed to the fringes of both politics and the traditional media landscape.
Source: In 2021, Fox News is still spreading dangerous climate denial | Media Matters for America
Insisting that the trial was not fair due to the threat of protests, “mob rule,” and pressure from Waters and Biden
Source: Right-wing media lash out after murder conviction in George Floyd case | Media Matters for America
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has spent years telling his audience that white supremacists do not pose a serious threat to the public. Even as Americans motivated by racist ideologies committed acts of domestic terror — including the January 6 sacking of the U.S. Capitol — he was quick to scoff, arguing that Democrats and the press were exaggerating the threat for political gain. So after FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress the exact opposite on Tuesday, Carlson was left with three choices — admit that he was wrong, lie about what happened, or ignore it. He chose the latter path, preferring to devote his show to issues he apparently considered more pressing, like the purported cancellation of Dr. Seuss.
The FBI director dismantled Tucker Carlson’s lie that white supremacists aren’t a threat — so Carlson ignored him | Media Matters for America
Right-wing media use loner activist’s arrest to revive conspiracy theories about “antifa” at the January 6 insurrection | Media Matters for America
To bolster those claims, they’ve zeroed in on Utah man John Sullivan, who recorded the events and reportedly cheered on the mob l, regarding his past attendance at Black Lives Matters protests. But the fact is, those local activists all say Sullivan is not welcome, and they’ve been trying for some time to keep him away. Despite early claims by right-wing media and Republican members of Congress that far-left provocateurs had really been the ones to instigate the attack on the Capitol, FBI Assistant Director Steven D’Antuono told reporters later that week, “We have no indication of that, at this time.” And a report in the Los Angeles Times has found that the suspects who have been arrested since the riot have represented “a broad cross section of President Trump’s supporters — people with office jobs, kids and mortgages, and otherwise respectable public reputations,” along with some “fringe radic
Right-wing media use loner activist’s arrest to revive conspiracy theories about “antifa” at the January 6 insurrection | Media Matters for America
Ordinary common media provide the sound bytes that radicalize. In Australia that 66% ++ media concentration lies with Murdoch Media and it’s commentary and opinion providers that do not rely on facts for news.(ODT)
“The individual claimed that he was not a frequent commenter on extreme right-wing sites and that YouTube was, for him, a far more significant source of information and inspiration. Although he did frequent extreme right-wing discussion boards such as those on 4chan and 8chan, the evidence we have seen is indicative of more substantial use of YouTube and is therefore consistent with what he told us.”
NZ’s Arden: Mosque Massacre was Enabled by ignoring White Supremacist Terror Threat and YouTube Radicalization
Australia is not alone in having a concentrated media market. We can see similar patterns emerging both in the US and in some parts of Europe[i]. But Australia stands out as one of the most concentrated media markets in the world and this increasing concentration has been happening for some time[ii]. There is also the question of why it also appears to be speeding up.
The distortion of the Australian public sphere: Media ownership concentration in Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network
How the news mogul sold his media empire to himself. It’s a shocker.
Rupert Murdoch and the ‘big surprise’ theory of accounting
A major shift towards clean energy targets is being seen among some of Australia’s leading businesses and brands, writes David Ritter.
Major corporations rush towards clean energy commitment
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