Tag: Murdoch Media

News Corp, News Corp Press, Uncategorized

Andrew Bolt’s views diagnosed as ‘disgraceful’ after coronavirus controversies | The Weekly Beast | Media | The Guardian

Andrew Bolt

Bolt loves the attention he’d be jobless without the ABC. Murdoch Media’s loss of $1,5 billion has resulted in the wholesale sacking of journalists diminishing it’s News content but not it’s opinions and public relation activity yet it continues to falsely portray itself as selling News. Sporting and entertainment maybe but not sufficient to describe it as a News organisation selling news. Peter Foster Australia’s infamous con man was jailed for selling product under false pretences.

Murdoch is an American who has been increasingly involved in interfering with our elections with heavy editorial influence and modelling Sky News on Fox News the USA. When will this foreign interference in Australian Democracy be addressed for what it is foreign interference? After all how does a company run and what is its purpose with a $1.5 billion loss paying no taxes given subsidies but losing readers and viewers but being largest organisation in the country not selling news (ODT)

via Andrew Bolt’s views diagnosed as ‘disgraceful’ after coronavirus controversies | The Weekly Beast | Media | The Guardian

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Wall Street Journal reporters’ letter reveals the farce of conservative “news” outlets | Media Matters for America

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However, the letter writers misunderstand the fundamental issue here: The problem is not that The Wall Street Journal’s opinion section undermines the newsroom’s credibility — it’s that in the right-wing media environment, especially under the ownership of the Murdoch empire, the newsroom only exists in order to help confer a patina of credibility on the opinion section as it spreads right-wing falsehoods. And this should become all that much clearer when looking at the opinion section’s responses and its total lack of accountability.

via Wall Street Journal reporters’ letter reveals the farce of conservative “news” outlets | Media Matters for America

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Rupert Murdoch’s big investment headache: Australia – Reuters

The birthplace of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, News Corp’s Australian business, is shaping up as a trouble spot for the global firm, following a billion dollar writedown and a move to stop printing more than 100 regional newspapers.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-news-corp-australia-focus/rupert-murdochs-big-investment-headache-australia-idUSKCN24G36B

Fox News, Uncategorized

Month to month, Fox News’ coronavirus coverage has dropped more than 20% | Media Matters for America

Fox News Coronavirus decline of coverage

via Month to month, Fox News’ coronavirus coverage has dropped more than 20% | Media Matters for America

and

Amid climbing coronavirus death toll, Fox & Friends devotes twice as much coverage to Obamagate

 

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts- Our History is so Hollywood, a Fantasy

Moscow promises Washington a ‘SERIOUS TALK’ about its V-Day message that omits Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazis

Fighting Fake News with REAL 11/5/20; Donald Trump x REM – Losing My Civilians; Crying back to work Murdoch Media is under financial threat and it’s Australia’s fault; Hollywood History is so typically Trump;

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts- The indispensables in a pandemic are treated badly are damaged and never enough. Unlike foot soldiers, they can’t just be drafted

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 6/5/20; Murdoch’s Monster Media; Carers are just numbers and disposables but unlike the military, they can’t simply be drafted to make up numbers;

China, Uncategorized

Up for a New Cold War — With China?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review

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Is America, in lockdown, with 26 million unemployed and entering a new depression, up for a confrontation and Cold War with China?

For that appears to be where the GOP wishes to lead us.

 The Rupert Murdoch owned The Wall Street Journal ran back-to-back editorials last week urging a more confrontational stance toward Beijing and endorsing GOP plans for new defense spending on U.S. air and naval forces in the Western Pacific.

Up for a New Cold War — With China?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review

Informed Comment, Murdoch Media, Uncategorized

Playing Dice With God And Other Stories Of Rupert Murdoch! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Who was dutifully promoting and playin wingman to this bullshit none other than Andrew Bolt (ODT)

After my essential journey to the supermarket to buy chocolate, I couldn’t help noticing the front page headline on “The Australian” which blared:

TEACHERS DEFYING VIRUS SCIENCE

Quite a neat trick rely, I thought. How does one “defy” science? Is it like defying gravity? Or is it like defying your boss and announcing that there’s no way you’re going to perform that task without the correct safety equipment?

No, what I find amazing is the sheer hypocrisy of a newspaper that can switch from an “everyone has a right to an opinion and scientists have been wrong in the past” position to a “you don’t have the right to question because you’ve been told by the PM so shut up and do what you’re told” stance.

And, of course, this completely overlooks the fact that teachers are doing what they’re told. In some states, teacher unions are pushing to ensure safety, but to the best of my knowledge none have suggested teachers refusing to attend school. Except for private schools, it’s state governments who’ve made the decisions about schools, not the teachers themselves.

Still, Rupert’s editors have never let the truth get in the way of the story.

via Playing Dice With God And Other Stories Of Rupert Murdoch! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Trump's Opinion, Trumpland, Uncategorized

Trump and Fox News Are Suddenly Silent on Their “Miracle” Drug Hydroxychloroquine – Mother Jones

Murdoch Media the voice of Trump have shut up promoting Chloroquine

After aggressively promoting an anti-malaria drug as a “miracle” in the fight against COVID-19—a push that flew in the face of repeated warnings from experts—President Donald Trump and Fox News personalities suddenly appear to be cooling on hydroxychloroquine just as a new study reports the drug could lead to a higher death rate.

via Trump and Fox News Are Suddenly Silent on Their “Miracle” Drug Hydroxychloroquine – Mother Jones

Coronavirus, Uncategorized

Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South | International Institute for Environment and Development

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Property Investment In Melbourne - Suburbs Analysis & Expert Advice

Australians are social distancers by design. Londoners, NewYorkers, don’t have that luxury. However, it doesn’t mean we can stop social distancing until we have sufficient testing and quarantine stations available. The problem is exacerbated with the flu season coming on. However, Murdoch Media insists it’s time to lift bans and get back to work their generalising of that call offer no specifics or how a global economy can be stopped from crashing. Their call for a drop in bans and self-reliance is not only counter to expert advice but grossly irresponsible. (ODT)

via Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South | International Institute for Environment and Development

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World has ‘a long way to go’ in Covid-19 crisis, warns WHO chief – as it happened | World news | The Guardian

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts-Trumpsters and Murdoch Media bellow “Back to Work” Australia from their Home Offices

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 30/3/20; Clive Palmer and News Corp join forces for mutual benefit but not any Common Good; Lessons Learned; Vigilance Required; Fake News, State Power,

Media, Uncategorized

“Amusing Ourselves to Death”: News media and the public’s desire to be entertained vs. its need to be informed | Media Matters for America

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“Amusing Ourselves to Death”: News media and the public’s desire to be entertained vs. its need to be informed

via “Amusing Ourselves to Death”: News media and the public’s desire to be entertained vs. its need to be informed | Media Matters for America

News Corp, Uncategorized

‘The Australian’ falls for Government spin on asylum seekers — again

Murdoch is the proxy State Media for the LNP government “No questions asked” as long as you slash the funding to the ABC. Today our public media has been reduced ti the equivalent funding it had in 1984. This Government rode into power on the promis of No Cuts to the ABC. (ODT)

Any decent journalist would have asked basic questions such as:

How and when did the extraordinary surge in asylum seekers come about?
How big is the problem, really, given the Government is saying it is no big deal?
Is the Government really getting on top of the problem or are they just spinning a line?
What is the surge costing the economy and the budget?’
Does the Government actually have an effective plan to get on top of the problem?’

But no, Chambers and Kelly just happily ignore such basic questions.

via ‘The Australian’ falls for Government spin on asylum seekers — again

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts-The Murdoch’s connect Corporate Thought and Governments in US,UK, and Australia. The common link

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Fighting Fake News with Real; 10/8/19; Murdoch’s Rules Rule; Dutton’s Escape Yey Again; The Vatican and Conservative Christians Take Australia;

Hate Speech

Anti-Islamic terrorism becomes ‘alarming trend’ in Europe ; beyond – Moscow — RT World News

Anti-Islamic terrorism becomes ‘alarming trend’ in Europe & beyond – Moscow

Spurned on by extremist and biased Islamophobic media globally. The largest in the English speaking world being Murdoch Media. In Melbourne alone in 2018 some 2850 anti- Islamic articles were published in the Herald Sun alone with Andrew Bolt an obsessed and leading contributor via his columns, radio, blogs, and Sky presance. He played a part so much so after the Barcelona bombings he was imploring the Christian youth of Australia to have the guts and fight back. A reminder of Alan Jones during the Cronulla Riots. (ODT)

The emergence of cold-blooded psychopaths and murderers who harbor plans to slaughter Muslims is becoming an alarming trend not only in Europe, but in the rest of the world.

via Anti-Islamic terrorism becomes ‘alarming trend’ in Europe & beyond – Moscow — RT World News

Also on rt.com UK Islamophobic incidents soar 600% in week after Christchurch terrorist attacks

Media

‘Who do you think is going to win that?’: Trump battle could be Lachlan Murdoch’s first problem

Without its legacy film and television business, Fox Corp’s most-high-profile division is Fox News, which is in a symbiotic relationship with the president of the United States. That relationship is already challenging Lachlan to deal with what one Hollywood executive called “the elephant in the room” for Fox – the toxic identity of Fox News in a mostly liberal entertainment industry.
On the other side of the political spectrum, several Fox News staffers said they are distrustful of Lachlan’s devotion to the cable news channel, and some call Lachlan “Fredo” behind his back, an unkind reference to a weak-willed son in “The Godfather.” The opinionated, conservative faction of the company that supports Trump is already testing his authority.

Trump became president, giving Rupert unprecedented access to a sitting US president – a relationship he has long coveted. The two men talk weekly, according to people close to them, and sometimes more often than that.

Lachlan doesn’t like to talk to the politicians. Rupert, however, has always has been attuned to political realities.

This is what Murdoch has always been about THE ART OF THE DEAL something Trump could never finese. (ODT)

“Rupert understood all along that governments care about media and that they meddle in it, and they have rules and you have to have a rapprochement to be successful,” said Reed Hundt, a former FCC chairman in the Clinton administration.

The Murdochs agreed to the Disney offer as the Justice Department was fighting AT&T’s $US85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner. In contrast to the hostility Trump displayed toward that deal, Trump spoke to Rupert the day the Fox deal with Disney was announced and “congratulated him,” according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.

(In another sign of the Murdochs and Trumps having close ties: When Ivanka Trump joined the White House, she relinquished her role as trustee of the fortune of Rupert Murdoch’s two youngest children.)

“It’s Lachlan versus the president,” said the 21st Century Fox film executive. “Who do you think is going to win that?”

‘Who do you think is going to win that?’: Trump battle could be Lachlan Murdoch’s first problem

Trumpland Revealed, Uncategorized

During national emergency declaration, Trump praises Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson for supporting him

How tight are Murdoch’s strings on Trump? (ODT)

via During national emergency declaration, Trump praises Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson for supporting him

Media

Germany: MSM won’t Tell you White Nationalist Drove into Muslim Refugees

A 50-year-old driver injured Syrian and Afganistan migrants and shouted racist comments as he was being arrested.

A 50-year-old man has been arrested after driving his car into a crowd of people in Germany in what police say appears to be a racist attack.

A group of migrants from Syria and Afghanistan was attacked in the town of Bottrop, an area of western Germany. According to official reports, the driver shouted xenophobic and racist comments while he was being arrested.

In the early hours of January 1, the driver had first tried unsuccessfully to hit a pedestrian. He then headed downtown, driving into a crowd of Syrian and Afganistan migrants, injuring four.

via Germany: MSM won’t Tell you White Nationalist Drove into Muslim Refugees

Climate Change

The Australian’s continued support of climate change denialism

This is despite the fact that, its then-editor, Chris Mitchell, said eight years ago: “for several years the paper has accepted man-made climate change as fact”.

But last week, the paper gave columnist Michael Asten more than 400 square centimetres, for an article of well over 900 words, to argue there are massive divisions about the science.

To be fair, he probably did not write the headline:

And why does The Australian continue to publish articles designed to raise doubts about anthropogenic climate change and the urgent need to tackle it when it does not provide similar support for tobacco lobbyists and flat-earthers?

It panders to the ridiculous right of the Liberal Party, typified by Tony Abbott and to the companies with a financial stake in climate change denial who donate to the Institute of Public Affairs.

via The Australian’s continued support of climate change denialism

Media

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

Uncategorized, Untrustworthy

‘Be careful about what you believe’ – Ken Livingstone on US, UK media bias & lies — RT Op-ed

‘Be careful about what you believe’ – Ken Livingstone on US, UK media bias & lies

As a young man I remember back in 1964 the American government announcing that one of their battleships has been attacked by North Vietnam and this led to their mass bombing and full-scale war leading to the deaths of over three and a half million people. Twenty years later the truth came out that there had never been an attack on that American ship.

The earliest lie I remember was when I was just eleven years old and Britain and France announced they were invading Egypt to stop the war between Egypt and Israel. All the politicians behind that lie were dead long before the truth emerged that Britain and France had asked Israel to invade Egypt so that this would give Britain and France the chance to overthrow Nasser’s Egyptian government and take back control of the Suez Canal.

Always be careful about what you believe.

via ‘Be careful about what you believe’ – Ken Livingstone on US, UK media bias & lies — RT Op-ed

Israel

Once charged with killing Palestinian teen, two soldiers will likely walk free | +972 Magazine

Greg Sheridan Political Editor for Murdoch’s  economically bleeding Australian clearly stated his confidence in the Israeli courts  and the IDF to be able to carry out objective investigations into the deaths of Palestinians killed by Israel’s forces. on Q&A (ODT)

Israeli soldiers shot 16-year-old Samir Awad eight times in the back, killing him. After a two-year delay, they were finally indicted. Now the prosecution has announced that it is dropping the charges against them.

Once charged with killing Palestinian teen, two soldiers will likely walk free | +972 Magazine

Media

New report confirms abortion is safe. Fox News immediately claimed the opposite.

The inaccurate notion that abortion is an unsafe or “risky” medical procedure was put to rest this month, with the release of a new report from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States. But as usual, Fox News didn’t let facts stand in the way of a sensationalist segment attacking abortion as unsafe.

via New report confirms abortion is safe. Fox News immediately claimed the opposite.

Trust

Cash for trash and the Joyce affair: System trust bites the dust

 

Australia’s key institutions – government, business and not-for-profit organisations – are among the least trusted in the world. Our trust in the media is now the second lowest in the world, behind only Turkey, at 31 per cent.

via Cash for trash and the Joyce affair: System trust bites the dust

Justice

Parliament and the STC: What not to do about workplace sexual harassment

And when did we start assuming guilt on the basis of an anonymous and unsubstantiated complaint, while denying the alleged defendant any access to due process and natural justice?

This entire situation stinks like a dead cod left in the sun.

Or, as Shakespeare more eloquently put it:

‘Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides …’

~ King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1.

via Parliament and the STC: What not to do about workplace sexual harassment

Israel

Israel Hayom’s new target: Conscientious objector’s mother | +972 Magazine| The News Corp Model of Media exists in Israel

Iris Gur, mother of conscientious objector Noa Gur Golan, protests in support of her daughter, who sat in prison for 98 over her refusal to serve in the IDF. (Courtesy of Mesarvot)

This is certainly not the first time Israel Hayom has targeted people, and government employees in particular, for being insufficiently Zionist, for being too left-wing, or for being Palestinian. Netanyahu’s confidants as well as his supporters are busy the cleansing civil service of those whose views do not match the prime minister’s. This is especially true for teachers who dare to express opinions seen as left wing, and that do not conform to the idea that militaristic education and violence are morally justifiable. Employees in the Education Ministry are legally allowed to express political opinions. However, as the list of persecuted teachers grows longer, the message is clear: some opinions are legitimate, others aren’t — and you better think twice before writing words like “peace” on your Facebook page.

Israel Hayom’s new target: Conscientious objector’s mother | +972 Magazine

News Corp

Fox’s Erick Erickson: “Mass shootings in this country are actually so rare”

 

Fox’s Erick Erickson: “Mass shootings in this country are actually so rare”

 Fox’s Erick Erickson: “Mass shootings in this country are actually so rare”

And

535 members of Congress, and Fox Business hosts the only one who’s actually a gun manufacturer

Conservative Media, Government by Media, Media Cavalry, Media Control, Media Madness

How Sean Hannity’s Charlottesville propaganda works

This is what Sean Hannity’s Fox News show is like on a daily basis. It’s pure propaganda, an effort to support the president at every turn, while castigating his enemies — particularly the press. His viewers are living in an alternate reality — one that he’s carefully crafted to benefit Trump.

Source: How Sean Hannity’s Charlottesville propaganda works

Coal

Fox Business Host Allows Industry CEO To Continue Denying The Real Reason For Coal’s Decline

Fox Business host Stuart Varney allowed a coal mining company CEO who previously said President Donald Trump couldn’t bring back coal jobs to walk back those comments, while Varney himself pushed the myth that environmental protections are to blame for the loss of jobs in the coal industry.A March 27 article in The Guardian reported that

Source: Fox Business Host Allows Industry CEO To Continue Denying The Real Reason For Coal’s Decline

Fox News

O’Reilly Ignores The Most Embarrassing Aspects Of Trump FEC Report

Bill O’Reilly ignored the fact that Donald Trump’s campaign May financial report showed the campaign paid his own businesses and family for campaign events, instead choosing to debunk a controversy regarding a payment to what some initially believed to be a fictitious advertising firm.During a June 22 discussion with Fox contributor Martha Ma

Source: O’Reilly Ignores The Most Embarrassing Aspects Of Trump FEC Report

Media

It Turns out Fox News Is Spreading Bulls*!t 80% of the Time AnonHQ

By Kit O’Connell at theantimedia.org   New York, NY — Less than half the “facts” broadcast on Fox News are even partially true, according to an ongoing analysis by an independent fact-checking project. Some recent lies told by on-air personalities and guests seem designed to stoke fears over the …

Source: It Turns out Fox News Is Spreading Bulls*!t 80% of the Time AnonHQ