"KICK THIS MOB OUT"

[i-need-a-martini]

(I appreciate that the same heading has been posted by Nero but my subject matter is different)

So the front page of the Daily Telegraph screams this headline. Not as an article but as an Editorial. A nameless editorial of course.

The editorial mentions 4 reason to kick out Labor - the boats, the economy, the budget and then goes on to say Rudd needs to go because he is  "...leader of the government that attempted to intimidate  a free media into a docile, compliant silence.".

They aren't even bothering to hide their agenda and the real reason they want Labor out. Surely not all Australians are stupid enough to fall for this kind of propaganda? Or are they?

Whilst Aussies get all huffy about supermarkets cornering the market, how come this kind of media propaganda goes by without comment. Do people not realise they are being brainwashed? Do they think it is the writings of intelligent and thoughtful analysis?

[j*oono]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

Short memories seem to be the case with labor supporters and especially the ones on here.. 

 David Penberthy –,Thursday, November, 22, 2007,(4:18pm)

The Daily Telegraph has formally declared its support for an ALP government and Kevin Rudd for Prime Minister of Australia.

The Daily Telegraph believes Kevin Rudd should be the next prime minister of Australia.

We believe Australia has been lucky to have been led by John Howard for the past 11 years.

But we now believe Mr Howard has reached his use-by date—if for no other reason than he almost believes it himself.

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That was back in 2007 when Murdoch was making his squillions in England.  Now they don't want him and neither does the US with his phone hacking.  He needs to worm his way back into Australia and the Libs are the obvious way to go.  They already have Bolt and Pickering.

[izabsmiling]

Political and Electoral Advertising rather than non bias information for Australian voters ?

Political and election advertising

The ASB sometimes receives complaints about advertising that may be regarded as “political”.

What is political advertising?

http://www.adstandards.com.au/process/theprocesssteps/specificproductsandissues/politicalandelection...

[silverfaun]

Fairfax ran a very damaging page on Labor yesterday. All the failures of Labor/Rudd/Gillard

How come there's no outrage about that paper. Fairfax has been the darling of the left since inceptiion so I see no difference between Fairfax & News lts. News ltd helped Rudd/Gillard over the line in 2007.

The whiff of hypocrisy & double standards is rife on here.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Did anyone watch Paul Barry on Media Watch last night? He didn't dispute the right of any paper to support one side, or to say so in theIr editorials, but he said that when one man (not even an Australian citizen) with a strident political bias, controls two thirds of the country's newspapers, that is disturbing.

[nero_bolt]

Elephant just to help you get your facts right

Murdoch’s News Corp owns just 32 per cent of newspapers in Australia - half of what Barry claims....

Thats a long way short of your rubbery figures of 2/3 elephant....... 32% is just short of 1/3, well it was when I went to school

Just to correct you and Barry a bit more elephant

The Murdoch papers are so popular that they make up 60 per cent of total newspaper sales, but that is due to Australian readers deciding they’d rather read a Murdoch paper than a competitors’.

Murdoch doesn’t “control” that choice. Readers do. Barry has grossly exaggerated, and also mistaken Murdoch’s “control” for what is actually the readers’ choice.

That also means that the wonderful left wing Fairfax media isnt widly read by the Australian public.

As it happens, two newspapers yesterday carried front page editorials denouncing this Labor Government. One was the Daily Telegraph. The other was the Financial Review, (a left wing Fairfax owned paper) which declared:

The first election of Australia’s post-resources boom era marks the end of a decade of rising national prosperity. Now the money has run out. The economy is in trouble. And the dysfunctional politics of the past three years must end. Under both Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, Labor has shown itself to be structurally unfit to govern.

Why did Barry not mention the Financial Review’s front-page denunciation of Labor in a program devoted to a newspaper’s front-page denunciation of Labor?

Is that because:

A. It would interfere with his anti-Murdoch fear mongering?

B. It would suggest that perhaps this government really is so incompetent as to not just deserve but demand such hounding by newspapers?

Anyway elephant all the real and correct facts are here on just how wrong Barry and the left are

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/media_watch_sho...

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Did anyone watch Paul Barry on Media Watch last night? He didn't dispute the right of any paper to support one side, or to say so in theIr editorials, but he said that when one man (not even an Australian citizen) with a strident political bias, controls two thirds of the country's newspapers, that is disturbing.

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[the_great_she_elephant]

Australian mass media is concentrated into the hands of a very small number of proprietors. For example, 11 of the 12 major newspapers in Australia are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation or John Fairfax Holdings. In fact, Murdoch bestrides the Australian media landscape like a colossus — NewsCorp owns 8 of that 12, and also dominate the regional and suburban newspaper publishing industry, as well as owning a major slice of Foxtel.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/philosophy/democracy/concentrated-media-ownership-a-crisis-...

[spotweldersfriend]

Rupert doesn't like NBN does he? Another good reason to complete the rollout.A potential big hit to his empire here.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@silverfaun wrote:

Fairfax ran a very damaging page on Labor yesterday. All the failures of Labor/Rudd/Gillard

How come there's no outrage about that paper. Fairfax has been the darling of the left since inceptiion so I see no difference between Fairfax & News lts. News ltd helped Rudd/Gillard over the line in 2007.

The whiff of hypocrisy & double standards is rife on here.

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You're talking about Obeid right? Who is a state politician and not a Federal politician right? And who started in poltics when Gillard was still in university right?

There is no outrage silver faun because that story was journalism. You know, where a persons profession rests on them investigating a story and reporting the truth to the public.

And if the Fairfax media is the "darling of the left" then how come they run, and most intelligent people accept, a story that highlights the failures of the NSW state Labor party during it's 80s/90's years?

And how come the Daily Telegraph runs with the Obeid story every day - usually following on from sensationalist tripe against Rudd but fail to mention the current scandals of the State Liberal party which are more relevent to to us now than an ICAC enquiry about a former politician?

[izabsmiling]

From Admin Independent Australia,6th August 2013

Former News Corp executive Rodney E Lever says this election may be the last one U.S. media tycoon Rupert Murdoch can influence to any major extent.

and

30th July 2013

EXCLUSIVE: Ettridge action against Abbott continues — in Canberra

The David Ettridge court action against Opposition Leader Tony Abbott continues, though it is now to be heard in Canberra rather than Brisbane. Managing editor David Donovan Reports 

have the MSM informed us of this ?

[i-need-a-martini]

The Murdoch papers are so popular that they make up 60 per cent of total newspaper sales, but that is due to Australian readers deciding they’d rather read a Murdoch paper than a competitors’.

No Nero. As usual the truth gets twisted into a mangled heap of propaganda that you hope people will believe because you think everyone is as stupid as those readily brainwashed by the Liberal party.

Murdoch controls 70% of the media through his readership. It's not because that's what Australian readers are deciding to read (in fact Australian readers are abondoning newspapers at an extraordinary rate) but because they have little choice.

There is no competition.

People have no choice. If they want to read a metropolitan newspaper that relates to their city (and that isn't a broadsheet) then they have no choice but to pick up a Murdoch paper. There is NOTHING else to read. 

Why? Because whilst  Fairfax cuts newspapers not returning a profit, Murdoch will continue running newspapers whilst they are making a loss simply because he has an agenda to propagate.

Take a look at The New York Post.

He has other business interests so he doesn't care if he runs these papers to the ground. He doesn't care that they don't make a profit. because they are there simply to provide an outlet for lobbying.