News Corp Australia CEO Kim Williams steps down

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News Corp Australia chief executive Kim Williams has resigned his post after less than two years at the helm, the company has announced.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-09/kim-williams-resigns-news-corp/4875670

Meanwhile media analysts say they are not surprised by the announcement.

Margaret Simons, director of Melbourne University's centre for advancing journalism, said Mr Williams' job security came into question when News Corp editor Col Allan returned from the US last month.

"When I heard that Col Allan, an old News Corporation man, was returning to Australia in order to, I think the wording was something like 'work with Williams on strengthening news coverage', I didn't think the signs were very good for Kim Williams," she said.

Dr Simons also said the move suggested a cultural shift within Rupert Murdoch's media empire, with traditional newspaper executives taking key roles.

"There was a cultural battle going on within the company and obviously this is one of the outcomes," she said

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is that 'Kick this mob out" Col Allan ?

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so much hatred and anger  stirred up by the media and people who think the likes of the sicko,dead beat Child Support dodging Father,scam artist/con man Larry Pickering a respectable person and a source of information .

If we follow the likes of him...we'd all end up in the gutter with him

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so much hatred and anger  stirred up by the media and people who think the likes of the sicko,dead beat Child Support dodging Father,scam artist/con man Larry Pickering a respectable person and a source of information .

If we follow the likes of him...we'd all end up in the gutter with him

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WOW now thats hate in that post  😞

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[lakeland27]

dislike for slimeballs isn't hate, its self preservation.

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@lakeland27 wrote:

dislike for slimeballs isn't hate, its self preservation.

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The only hatred here is that for Rudd and anything Labor, all coming from the same few posters. No discussion just pure hatred.

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This thread is so full of hate and bitterness, not unexpected but it is scary to see how much hatred (blinding hatred in many cases) and bitterness many posters on here harbour and carry......

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On both sides, you would have to agree?

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It would be folly for people to believe Larry Pickering .

The Original Shock Jock ,Susan Johnson

Leader of the Pack.

from Michael Pascoe:

This guy’s a fraud
and a liar. People should know the truth.” Pascoe
wrote a passionate and heated column for The
Sydney Morning Herald, describing the oncefamous newspaper cartoonist as an “inveterate
liar, a bankrupt conman with a seedy history of
fleecing the gullible of millions of dollars while not
paying his own bills”. Pascoe began by writing
that any campaign involving Larry Pickering
immediately lacked credibility and ended by
claiming that “the stink of Pickering remains
on the hands of those passing his material on”.

Pascoe later told Qweekend that he found
Pickering “a weird, nasty and slightly dangerous
individual”. Pickering says that Pascoe’s hatred
of him is “a personal thing”. “He’s an old
enemy from years ago. I nearly jobbed him in
a pub one night, he’s such an arrogant **bleep**.”
But Pascoe claims he’s never met the man.
“Typical of his deluded or simply lying nature
is that I don’t think I’ve ever been in the same
room as him, let alone come to blows,” he said
in an email.

It’s safe to say that Pickering causes steam
to burst forth from many ears, and not just Julia
Gillard’s. Pickering’s numerous ex-wives and
ex-girlfriends, ex-business partners and assorted
lefties turn purple at the mention of his name.

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here's another good article about the media and their biases.

This is by Barry Tucker. You'll need to go to the source for the missing content.

http://thesnipertakesaim.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/oz-news-media-bias-explained/

Allegations of news media bias in Australia during the past several years are not new. The problem has been to accurately identify the reason or reasons for it. In this blog I will set out what I think is happening and why.

The players in this story are first and foremost Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia, the Fairfax Media and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). In each case, the players are after a different goal. The initial aim is to replace the federal Labor government with a Liberal National Party Coalition government — which is a means to achieving the various goals.

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It’s pretty clear to me that Mark Scott has done a good job (to be fair to him) not only by installing or encouraging critics of the government but by taking the ABC to new levels in terms of product and technology. It should be noted that Mr Scott held two positions under Liberal Ministers in a former NSW Liberal government, as a chief-of-staff and a senior advisor. He was then the conservative editorial director of the conservative The Sydney Morning Herald. It’s an example of a journalist moving in and out of the parliamentary political realm. According to his speeches I’ve read, he does not think news organisations can successfully charge for content they have been providing for free. That could be relevant to the consequences of privatisation of the ABC.

But what does he want? Based on the detailed speeches that he delivers a few times each year I would say he wants what’s best for the ABC — and I’m not sure that it could encompass privatisation. In any case, Mr Scott can’t deliver that; it’s entirely up to a federal government, most likely a Liberal one and possibly one led by Anthony (Tony) Abbott.

Mr Scott has brought about some of the correction that PM Howard seemed to think was necessary but Anthony (Tony) Abbott still thinks is lacking. My best guess is that by allowing some overt Right-wing criticism and commentary Mr Scott is seeking to appease the ABC’s critics and save its bacon. I hope I’m right and only the aftermath of the election outcome will give us the answer.

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Tom Watson has been reading our news and has decided to pay a visit to Australia to see if Rupurt Murdoch has learnt anything from the Leveson Inquiry .

Tom Watson packs 'serious' News Corp questions for his flight to Australia

British MP and anti-Murdoch campaigner says Daily Telegraph front pages show News Corp chief learned nothing from Leveson

• Bridie Jabour

• theguardian.com, Friday 9 August 2013 

....“I’ve already seen [that] The Australian is saying I’m coming out to take on tabloid editors for their treatment of Kevin Rudd, which isn’t true,” he told Guardian Australia.

“I’m coming out there to ask some serious questions about whether Rupert Murdoch has learned the lesson of the Leveson inquiry in the United Kingdom.

“Looking at the headlines in some of his newspapers, it seems to me he has learned nothing from the scandal.”

Watson plans to fly out some time in the next fortnight and said he did not have a schedule, although he has had offers and is hoping to give speeches and hold community meetings while in the country.

“One of the things that the public [Leveson] inquiry focused on was how newspapers in the UK tended to deliberately mix editorial with news and I saw those two editions of the Daily Telegraph and thought, ‘Oh no, that poor editor of the Daily Telegraph is obviously working under orders from New York during the election,’” he said.

“I thought those days were over, and you should be calling him [Murdoch] out on those things.”

read in full http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/09/tom-watson-news-corp-murdoch

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Sorry Nero for my bitterness and hatred. You've tried to enlighten us to virtuos righteousness with your endearingly unbiased infrequent posts absent of any malice towards Gillard and/or Labor and I've learned my lesson and as such let me say Murdoch isn't evil he is merely a d**khead.