Murdoch distributes his propaganda for FREE

[i-need-a-martini]

Today the hideously biased one-track subject matter Daily Telegraph was boasting it had the highest readership of any newspaper in the country with levels rising. 

Now I know why.

For months it has been the only reading available at my morning cafe and the content has stunned me - it is simply filled to the brim with BS. It's nothing more than an avenue for Murdochs propaganda and his anti-Labor agenda.

So I asked the cafe owner why she only has NewsLimited papers. She tells me she would never buy them -  they just 'arrive' on her doorstep every morning. 3 x The Australian and 3 x The Daily Telegraph. And they deliver to EVERY cafe in the area.

I work in Surry Hills in Sydney and for those of you who don't know Surry Hills, it is a cafe laden suburb with more cafes per square metre than any other city in Australia. The 3 blocks I walk from Central station to work I pass 16 cafes. Each given free Murdoch propaganda in the guise of a newspaper.

What chance for democracy when the country is being brainwashed to this degree?

[freakiness]

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

The good thing about our society is that we have choice.  So if we don't like a free newspaper

at the coffee shop we can always fork out a dollar or so for one that we do like.  

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The Murdoch press is giving away in shoppping centres too lately, I've heard.

It's to inflate circulation numbers to keep advertisers happy.

[ladydeburg]

I get it online and also read it for light reading in cafe's This is the newspaper who ushered Rudd in in 2007 so for that reason alone I'm cancelling my subscription.

[izabsmiling]

advertisers would be paying and/or promising something in return.

[freakiness]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

advertisers would be paying and/or promising something in return.

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Not necessarily.

The lower the circulation numbers the less their advertising space is worth.

[monman12]

 
MY: "John, I think your own myopia is becoming more and more obvious.  You try to present yourself on here as the bastion of reason and fairness but it is pretty plain to see you only "go after" supporters of the left.
When are we going to see you take to task nero........"

MY, history/research are apparently your  bete noire. so allow me to correct you, in that I have never tried  to present myself on here as the bastion of reason and fairness, more the bastion of scientific/engineering correctness, plus of course shooting down demonstrably incorrect definitive statements.
Ask LL apropos my possible true leanings.

As for myself not  tasking Nero, try researching MY, it is easy e.g some of my past posts herein. :

  "NW I regard myself as informed (and  educated to a degree in the physical sciences) but I at least took the trouble to confirm what I knew apropos EU carbon pricing by reading a paper from  the  EU Directorate-General for the Environment.  "  "

   "NW: "Just why did we spend the past year paying the world's biggest carbon tax, which drove our power bills through the roof?"
  "NW, I will answer that one, we did not. As for the rest of your C & P, I see you also are averse to  analytical research, 

  "NW, I suggest you  quote some home grown reputable scientific bodies when you are grasping for  credible technical information  "

  "NW, whilst you are  blindly castigating all things Labour,  take the time to research  coalition State budget forecasts.  "

NW: ".......However, it appears voters have marked down Mr Rudd on his controversial plans to send asylum seekers to PNG....."
 Actually NW:-"...... slight majority of Australian electors say the ALP (50.5%, up 4.5% in a week) would ‘do a better job’ than the L-NP (49.5%, down 4.5%)."

"Forget the myopic bleatings here of NW and LL,  (at least LL does post some original thoughts/research, sometimes)"

 " I would guess that  there is room for two under NW's rock!  "

MY, I think you have a case of selective posting  amnesia coupled with  political myopia, you will fit in very well!

[bright.ton42]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

The good thing about our society is that we have choice.  So if we don't like a free newspaper

at the coffee shop we can always fork out a dollar or so for one that we do like.  

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The Murdoch press is giving away in shoppping centres too lately, I've heard.

It's to inflate circulation numbers to keep advertisers happy.

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Would free copies count in their circulation figures?   If they do then no wonder

they're giving them away.  

[silverfaun]

mm, I think you are the bastion on blowing self important lab rusteds into the weeds with your measured & cutting to the chase ripostes.

I would not venture to rebuke you because you seem to be a fairly good bs meter on here.

The one thing I'm looking forward to is the night of the election when the post mortems start. The libs and Labs are not both blameless in creating such a toxic politic.

Maybe when Rudd  ang Gillard fade into the mists of time then we can look at the toxic 24hr news cycle which is equally to blame.

[nero_bolt]

So which one of the left leaning regulars is this new posting ID of moderatemolly..... They seem to know you by name MM and seem to have some issues with you

I do wonder why they think its OK to bring me into their problem/personal dispute with monman12 

Interesting to see who gave this new posting nick KUDOS.... could it be another nick of either of the KUDOS givers? Possibly the one line specialist could own this nick or its a friend of theirs..... lol

Is this a personal dispute that the poster has with monman12? It would appear so... and a good chance of a personal dispute with me as well. 

Will be interesting to see how often this nice shiny new posting nic will post on here in the future... 

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moderatemolly wrote:

John, I think your own myopia is becoming more and more obvious.  You try to present yourself on here as the bastion of reason and fairness but it is pretty plain to see you only "go after" supporters of the left.

When are we going to see you take to task nero, silverfaun etc for some of the absurd things they post?

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He does, OFTEN and thats fine.... and I have no personal dispute with that unlike moderatemolly seems to have one with both myself and monman12

🙂

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monman12 wrote:

 
As for myself not  tasking Nero, try researching MY, it is easy e.g some of my past posts herein. :

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[monman12]

SF: "The one thing I'm looking forward to is the night of the election when the post mortems start. The libs and Labs are not both blameless in creating such a toxic politic."

I agree SF, but I happily will be ensconced in the M. A. lounge at "Tulla" evening of 7th Sept,  eating too much,  and probably having a little over the limit beverage. Then a week in Malacca doing the same.

nɥºɾ

[moderatemolly]

So which one of the left leaning regulars is this new posting ID of moderatemolly.....

You really have no idea do you.  Not all of us have multiple personalities.

They seem to know you by name MM

Not hard, he signs it on every post.

Interesting to see who gave this new posting nick KUDOS.... could it be another nick of either of the KUDOS givers? Possibly the one line specialist could own this nick or its a friend of theirs

I assume that gibberish is trying to say I'm Donna or Iza.  WRONG.  As I said not all of us use several ids to back ourselves up.