The Murdoch Virus Part 3 – Outfoxed

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Jun 182012
 

  In the first two parts of The Murdoch Virus we have seen how the Murdoch owned media outlets have published outright lies with little or no concern for the damage these lies cause. In Part 1 – The Virus, it was shown that two teenagers (one in Australia and one in the UK) committed suicide after falsehoods were published about them in Murdoch’s tabloids. In Part 2 – Hillsborough, we saw how Murdoch’s UK tabloid The Sun published blatant lies about what happened at the Hillsborough soccer stadium where around 100 fans lost their lives, and how the people of Liverpool still hold a grudge against the tabloid for it. Now in Part 3 of The Murdoch Virus series, we will see how the

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The Murdoch Virus Part 2 – Hillsborough

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May 062012
 

In Part 1 of the Murdoch Virus, we saw how Murdoch’s publications (Sydney’s Daily Mirror and Britain’s News Of The World), published fabricated stories about rampant teenage promiscuity which resulted in the suicides of a 13 year old boy and a 15 year old girl. This pattern of “making shit up, and bugger the consequences” is one of the most prevalent traits across all of Murdoch’s outlets, from newspapers to TV. In Part 2 of The Murdoch Virus series, we’ll look at one of the most shameful incidents in the Murdoch Empire’s history, the Hillsborough Disaster. What Happened On April 15 1989, during the FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives, and a further 766 were injured as

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The Murdoch Virus Part 1 – The Virus

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Apr 282012
 

In this seven part series of articles we will examine the detrimental effect Rupert Murdoch’s style of journalism (The Murdoch Virus) has had on the once noble profession of journalism, as well as society and democracy not only in Australia, but also in Britain and The United States. The second part (“Hillsborough”) will look at one of the most shameful episodes in the Murdoch Empires catalogue of sins. “Outfoxed” is the title for part 3, and will focus on Fox News and its effects on US politics and journalism. Part 4 “Hackgate” will look at the ongoing scandal enveloping Newscorp in the UK, and part 5 looks at the biggest threat to the Murdoch Empire in “Murdoch And The Internet”. Part 6 (“The Right To

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