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How Murdoch ‘ruperters’ operate 18
A piece by Brad
Norington in Murdoch’s pretend newspaper The Australian demonstrates how this
malevolent media enterprise and its employees operate. This piece was headed “GetUp
had been found to be linked to Labor and the Greens”1. Norington has
been the subject of another essay here, in which he with Andrew Clennell
attempted to paint Dr Kerryn Phelps as a government destroying independent2.
A STEM world or no world
Everybody with a
modicum of intelligence understands anthropogenic climate change is a fact and
it is extremely dangerous. We knew about this 30 years ago1, and the
prospect of it in the future is frightening. Currently, the world is on average
about 1 degree Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels, and it is now extremely
unlikely that the temperature rise can be kept below 1.5 degrees C, and perhaps
Social responsibility of media organisations
There is a regulatory
agency called the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC)1, which is an administrative tribunal that regulates and
supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest. In the
first decade of this century, this organisation had been considering revoking
or relaxing the rule on ‘prohibited programming content’ that includes ‘broadcasting
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Accusing others of the crimes you commit
The Chief Executive of
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Robert Thomson, delivered the Keith Murdoch Oration
in Melbourne on Tuesday night1. Keith Murdoch was Rupert’s father
and was one of the founders of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)2,
a far right-wing ultra-libertarian, climate change denying, tobacco denying
organisation that masquerades as a think tank3 and which is
effectively the policy arm of the Liberal Party4. Indeed, the IPA
Stating the obvious 30 years too late
Very few Murdoch ‘journalists’
are real journalists; many are just Liberal Party fundament osculators. One of
the few who is a real journalist is Malcolm Farr, but he has not done himself
any favours this week in publishing an article in which he stated that “the
public debate on the existence of climate change is over and we are owed an
apology”1. To be blunt, this is equine ordure. The debate was over
Where are the free speech warriors now?
It was mostly members
of the coalition who railed against the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and in particularly
Section 18C of that act1. This campaign got going in earnest when
one of their mouthpieces, Andrew Bolt, was found guilty of breaching the Racial
Discrimination Act after he was sued by nine Aboriginal people for two articles
he wrote in 2009. These articles maintained that pale-skinned people who
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Shorten’s perceived unpopularity
It is ironic that an
article attempting to explain Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten’s perceived
unpopularity has appeared in a Newscorp media outlet1, when it is Newscorp
which has been at the forefront of the attempt to damage Shorten’s ‘image’
among its readers ever since he became opposition leader. The only conclusion
that the article came to, was that, as Shorten himself said: “When you’re the