Anyone who had any doubt that the Libs election campaign has moved headquarters to the editorial rooms at Rupert Murdoch’s Telegraph (Sydney) and Courier Mail (Brisbane), need only have watched Media Watch this week. There, the whole despicable distortion of democracy being perpetrated by that most malevolent of humans and his willing supplicants, dressed as journalists, was exposed. My conscience is clear: I don’t buy any newspaper Murdoch prints (I cancelled my sub. to the Sunday Times) and I cancelled my subscription to his cash-cow, Foxtel, a couple of years ago when it became clear to me just how toxic this megalomaniac had become. How can any party in an election withstand such media carpet bombing, particularly when it’s being churned out in newspapers that have almost 70% of the national readership. Worse, the Courier Mail is the only Brisbane metro daily so Murdoch has an almost unchallenged ability to influence public opinion in that city.
Watch Media Watch (Episode 30, 26 August 2013) here then donate to GetUp please:
Media Watch (ABC Television)
If you share my outrage at what Murdoch is doing, please consider staking a small stand and cancel any of your Murdoch supporting newspaper and Foxtel subscriptions and share this post so it’ll reach as many suppliers of cash to Murdoch’s propaganda machine (subscribers), as possible. Cheers.
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Thinking of possible motivations for Murdoch’s vociferous anti-Labor campaign over the last few years. I think someone had a point when they suggested the biggest threat to Murdoch’s Foxtel pay-tv near-monopoly power in Australia is Labor’s NBN and the multiple HD streaming content providers that will offer streaming services to households. With 100 to 1000mbps download speeds there’ll be no buffering hassles and a true on-demand service, something Murdoch’s Foxtel doesn’t provide. The Libs. crap version of the NBN only offers up to 100mbps download speeds, and that’s only if you live next door to the node, otherwise speeds rapidly drop to 25mbps, the further down the street you go. The Libs version of the NBN is Murdoch friendly because it’s speed limited and very poor competition for Foxtel, while Labor’s NBN could wipe them out. In other words, why would you want to pay Murdoch more than $130 a month for Foxtel when you’ll soon be able to stream huge Hi-Def movie and TV files over the internet for a fraction of the cost or in many cases, for free?