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So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

i-need-a-martini — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:26:37 GMT

I picked up the Daily Telegraph for the first time a couple of weeks ago and was staggered at what I read - pretty much every page (bar the sports, business and celeb) pages was devoted to anti government stories. Most of them nasty and untrue.

I thought perhaps I had picked up the paper on a slow news days so I have been buying it every other day and it is filled to the brim with Rudd hatred.

The Australian newspaper seemed to escape the same attitude. Until this week. It seemed like overnight, the paper went from pretending to be unbiased to being unrelentless in it's anti-Rudd campaigning. And now I understand why:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/murdochs-vicious-attacks-on-rudd-its-business-20130803-2r65x.html

Murdoch has sent one of his flamethrowing bull dogs to Australia to provide ''extra editorial leadership for our papers …''.

So will Col Allan be here simply to do to the Telegraph and others what he was in charge of doing with the New York Post? That is, foregoing profit in order to promote racism (The Post is the newspaper that brought up those 'Obama is a Muslim' headlines), promote Murdochs business interests and slam governments who are not providing policies in line with Murdochs business plan?

I think so.

Looks like Australian media reporting over the next 2.5 months is about to hit rock bottom.

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

freddie*rooster — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:47:02 GMT

Martini, I said the same thing to my OH last night, it's such a blatant campaign to spread fear and untruths to the masses. I told my OH I hate seeing the paper come into our home, he only buys it to read the sport.

*angry face*

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

para-sights — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:05:21 GMT

It's no different on newsdotcomau. The heading links in a political beat up don't even pretend to disguise as to where their allegiance are.

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just_me_karen — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:10:43 GMT

Apparently one of the main threats to Murdoch is the NBN, which will touch the bottom line of his main money spinner, foxtel.

It's a shame journalists at so many media outlets have lost their ethics. Basically, they write cheap drama these days, devoid of unbiased integrity.

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para-sights — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:20:50 GMT

Yellow Journalism (or lack of preffessional ethics) have always been there. However the good thing to counter balance it is that more people are atune to muckraker tactics employed by the media

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

freakiness — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:32:01 GMT

They have been running a campaign to destroy the NBN from the beginning.

It will mean the end of the Foxtel monopoly as we know it and Rupe hates the idea of that as it's his most profitable business.

Fraudband will ensure no competition.

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

sniper_patrol — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 04:08:47 GMT

Rupert Murdoch said..... " The Sun Will Continue "

Jeez, i know he's powerful, but c'mon...

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

polocross58 — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 04:58:44 GMT

Politics isn't sport

It shouldn't be about personalities

This is people's futures and their children's and grandchildren's lives on the line

You'll notice none of the monopolistic media is talking about alternative parties ?

That's because they want you to focus on the two big fake parties (which are not as opposed as people seem to believe. It's all an act)

If people would give their vote to alternative parties, it would break the strangle-hold of the Big Two

We have to get other players into the field. Until we do, we have no chance

I'm giving my vote to an alternative party which does NOT give my vote to anyone else

Hopefully, millions of Aussies will do likewise

It's the only way we'll get decent representation. It's the only way we'll curb the utter arrogance of the two big fake parties

So I don't concern myself with Rudd or Abbott. A vote for either of them is a wasted vote. A vote for Greens is a vote for Labor

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

not_an_eloi — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 08:48:11 GMT

rudd's set to announce election date, shortly, for 7th september.

do 'ope they give the allan grub a pot, instead o' the sink.

(shades emoticon)

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

not_an_eloi — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 05:33:03 GMT

4pm rudd press conference

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

freakiness — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 08:27:39 GMT

http://thefailedestate.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/did-you-vote-for-this-man.html?spref=tw

Did You Vote For This Man?

There are two upcoming power battles in Australia. One pits Kevin Rudd against Tony Abbott. The second positions Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers against our democracy. The outcome of the first battle may depend on the second, yet we only get to vote in one of them.

That Murdoch wants a change of government in Australia is evident. He has said so himself, tweeting that the Australian public are "totally disgusted with the Labor Party wrecking the country with its sordid intrigues. Now for a quick election".

Of course, the octogenarian, New York-based global media magnate is perfectly entitled to his opinion and is well within his rights to express it so openly. But one's opinions carry a lot more weight when they are magnified by a virtual monopoly newspaper business that amplifies his views through 'news' coverage that makes no pretension at being even-handed.

Take for example the News Corp papers' treatment of the Rudd government's proposal for a modest levy on banks to pay for insurance for depositors in the event of a bank failure. Predictably, Rudd and his treasurer were photo-shopped as bank robbers raiding the savings of battlers. "Rudd plans to pinch Aussies' savings" was the headline in the trashy Daily Tele.

Not mentioned was the fact that until recently Australia and New Zealand were the only industrialised countries not to operate deposit insurance schemes for authorised deposit taking institutions. Under the Howard Government in 2005, the Council of Financial Regulators recommended a limited mechanism to provide depositors and general insurance policyholders with access to their funds on a timely basis during a crisis. The rationale was to avoid hardship for ordinary people. (For a detailed history of our move toward international standards, see this paper from the RBA here PDF).

The idea - as supported by APRA, ASIC, the RBA and the generally very conservative people who administer our financial system - is that it makes sense for deposit taking institutions themselves to pay a levy to insure that people's savings are protected. This is consistent with what happens in many other developed economies, including the US, the UK, Canada and Norway.

Just how this sensible, moderate and prudential policy idea could be twisted into Rudd Raids Battlers' Bank Accounts' is testament to the utter corruption of the Murdoch media and the preparedness of its editors to distort news coverage to advance the commercial and ideological agenda of their expatriate boss.

The Murdoch apologists, of course, will defend his papers with the line that they are pursuing the sort of vigorous, take-no-prisoners tabloid journalism that holds governments to account. That's fine, but journalism that twists facts, omits key information and manipulates public emotion to achieve ideological ends for powerful interests is not journalism at all. Even the mostconservative public commentators now recognise how calculated Murdoch's agenda of propaganda has become.

None of this would matter so much if the Murdoch footprint in our media was not so overwhelming and if his papers did not so routinely set the agenda for talkback radio, commercial television and the ABC, which has given up any pretence of being anything other than a News Corp echo chamber. On this score, John Pilger got it right - Australia is the world's first Murdochracy.

What does this mean in the coming election? It means that Rudd's ALP, the Greens and the cause of progressive politics in this country are up against two foes - Abbott's populist, hidden agenda conservatism on one hand and, on the other, a Murdoch press willing to lie, misinform, twist and smear to get its way.

If Abbott wins, the Murdochracy will be complete.

(Image courtesy of Driftglass - licensed under Creative Commons)

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eleanor-says-helloooooooooo — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 08:54:38 GMT

Wong shrugs off Murdoch 'threat' to Govt.

Finance Minister Penny Wong has brushed aside reports media mogul Rupert Murdoch is out to get Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Fairfax Media says Mr Murdoch has deployed editor of the New York Post tabloid, Col Allan, back to Australia to help bolster attacks on the government. It says commercial interests are behind the decision because Labor's National Broadband Network (NBN) is a threat to News Corp's jointly owned Foxtel cable television venture. Senator Wong said Mr Murdoch was entitled to his views in a free press. "I follow Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and it was quite clear during the US elections that Mr Murdoch made his views opposing President Obama very clear, and his media outlets in the US were consistent about that," she told ABC TV on Sunday. "The government fundamentally disagrees with his support for Tony Abbott." She said the election of the nation's leader was in the hands of the Australian people.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/election/a/-/article/18349244/wong-shrugs-off-murdoch-threat-to-govt/

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

lakeland27 — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:30:21 GMT

I think the threat has just changed targets. it would be expected. the electioneering junk mail i get has simply changed faces, the murdoch/bolt and larry is still there. apart from larry being somewhat hamstrung by the fact it isn't a woman he's hounding it seems much the same.

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freakiness — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 11:34:07 GMT

About the author of the article I posted above:

Mr Denmore is the penname of former financial journalist Jim Parker. Jim worked in the media for 26 years in NZ, Australia, the UK and Asia; in commercial and public radio, wire services, television, newspapers and online media., Jim now works in corporate communications. The opinions he expresses here are his own.

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

lakeland27 — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 21:55:05 GMT

@polocross58 wrote:
Politics isn't sport

It shouldn't be about personalities

This is people's futures and their children's and grandchildren's lives on the line

You'll notice none of the monopolistic media is talking about alternative parties ?

That's because they want you to focus on the two big fake parties (which are not as opposed as people seem to believe. It's all an act)

If people would give their vote to alternative parties, it would break the strangle-hold of the Big Two

We have to get other players into the field. Until we do, we have no chance

I'm giving my vote to an alternative party which does NOT give my vote to anyone else

Hopefully, millions of Aussies will do likewise

It's the only way we'll get decent representation. It's the only way we'll curb the utter arrogance of the two big fake parties

So I don't concern myself with Rudd or Abbott. A vote for either of them is a wasted vote. A vote for Greens is a vote for Labor

has the 'alternative' party a hope in hell ? no. you wasted your vote .

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

not_an_eloi — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:14:02 GMT

uh, underbatt.

post 9 referred to murdoch's mouth at news limited, col allan, 'is habit of usin' the sink to urinate in

you've edited post 9, as a consequence of your meddlin' alteration, it now means nothin' like wot i posted.

you may as well remove it, aye.

(shades emoticon)

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

lakeland27 — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:28:56 GMT

@not_an_eloi wrote:
uh, underbatt.

post 9 referred to murdoch's mouth at news limited, col allan, 'is habit of usin' the sink to urinate in

you've edited post 9, as a consequence of your meddlin' alteration, it now means nothin' like wot i posted.

you may as well remove it, aye.

(shades emoticon)

reminds me of a cartoon i saw years ago. A gnome standing in the edge of a sink, looks at the lady and says ''This will shift the grease missus''

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

polksaladallie — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:37:13 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:

reminds me of a cartoon i saw years ago. A gnome standing in the edge of a sink, looks at the lady and says ''This will shift the grease missus''

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMoeuEx1KNM

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

monman12 — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:38:00 GMT

5 weeks of myopic diatribe that will look like this:

A comment from one of my family:

Re: So Murdoch is ramping up the anti-Rudd campaign...

lakeland27 — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:40:22 GMT

@monman12 wrote:
5 weeks of myopic diatribe that will look like this:

A comment from one of my family:

the dog is misinformed. stop putting the herald sun under the food bowls.