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Would it surprise anyone to know that not one single Murdoch Slime Rag - not a single one - reported Rudd's speech to the National Press Club?
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Without Murdoch the "Let's invade Iraq" gig would have been a lot harder to pull off.
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Iraq and the Rupert Murdoch connection: The media mogul's network of pro-war campaigners
Back in 2003, the Murdoch-owned press beat the drum for the Iraq War, but few of the key players got a mention in the Chilcot report
Andy McSmith | @andymcsmith | Friday 08 July 2016 10:27
The screaming headline on the front of todayโs edition of The Sun added to the shredding of Tony Blairโs reputation. โWeapons of Mass Deception,โ it blared. That was bit rich, considering the role of The Sun and the rest of the global media empire owned by Rupert Murdoch in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, summed it up in his evidence to the Leveson inquiry โ โIโm not sure that the Blair government โ or Tony Blair - would have been able to take the British people to war if it hadnโt been for the implacable support provided by the Murdoch papers. Thereโs no doubt that came from Mr Murdoch himself.โ
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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Here you go, ladies, and don't forget to keep buying his papers, subscribing to his pay channels and voting for his pet political party. It's all disturbing testimony but the journalist drops some real bombshells at the 38 minute mark. Advance Australia Fair!
https://youtu.be/X68NVLPVzuI
Interesting clip. Wow, Anna Rogers sure gives a horrid account of what it was like working for them. I hope that her life isn't made a misery with harassment and worse as a result.