The Murdoch Virus Part 5 – Murdoch And The Internet

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Sep 162012
 

  Murdoch’s multi-media empire has relied on a 19th century business model since its inception. Whether it’s newspapers, magazines or TV, they all make money by filling in the gaps between adverts. This business model relies on the “push-factor”. The content, whether it’s articles in a newspaper, on the radio or a show on TV, are pushed at consumers in between the ads, which are also pushed at them. Consumers have little or no input on what content is pushed at them other than to turn the page, or flick to another channel or station. In order for them to charge advertisers, the content has generally been aimed at the lowest common denominator. As consumers have moved online, this denominator has been moving lower and

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Dolt vs Murdoch – The Battle For Free Speech In Australia

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Jul 132012
 

Andrew “Some Of My Best Friends Are Darkies” Dolt* has long been the champion of every free speech loving, freedom loving, Juliar hating patriot in Australia via his blog in The Herald Stun, and his Logie, Emmy, BAFTA, Walkley, Pulitzer, Nobel Prize winning, ratings busting**, TV show, The Dolt Distort. Sadly, this is no more. Recently the ability to contribute to the high levels of sociopolitical discourse by commenting on Dolt’s blog was shut down. As if the total wipeout of Whyalla on 1/7/2012 wasn’t bad enough, now the right to post racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic rants patriotic parables on Andrew Dolt’s blog has been taken away from us. Was this facility taken away by the freedom hating, un-Australian, commie, socialist, fascist, totalitarian, heathen, childless,

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The Murdoch Virus Part 4 – Hackgate

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Jul 102012
 

In Part 1 of The Murdoch Virus series, (The Virus), we looked at how Murdoch tabloids in Australia and the U.K. were responsible for the suicides of two teenagers after articles on teenage promiscuity were published with total disregard to the truth and the implications of the effects these articles would have. In Part 2, (Hillsborough), we saw how The Sun, another Murdoch tabloid, published deliberately false allegation of crowd behaviour at the Hillsborough Stadium where around 100 people lost their lives. Once again these fabrications were published with a total disregard for the effects the lies would have on the victims families. In Part 3 (Outfoxed), we saw how everything the Murdoch had learned about manipulation, fear-mongering and dissemination of propaganda was brought together

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Another Unconscionable Act From News Limited

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Jul 062012
 

Once again the Murdoch owned low brow tabloid, The Daily Telegraph, has disgraced itself. In an article on July 4, 2012, alleged “journalist” Ian McPhedran named a soldier recently killed in action in Afghanistan. This prompted the Army Chief to pen a letter to the editor. In the letter Lieutenant General David Morrison lambasted the paper for naming the soldier before this information was officially released by the Army and the soldier’s family. From the letter: The Army and the Defence Force have well established protocols for the release of names and personal details in these circumstances; protocols with which your journalists are very familiar but have clearly chosen to ignore. And: The family in this instance, whose lives are currently consumed with their own

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More Lies From News Limited

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Jun 252012
 

Splashed across the front page of The Daily Terrorgraph, Rupert Murdoch’s low brow Sydney tabloid is the following headline: Exclusive: School excursions hit by Swan budget cuts Taking The Lunch Money The story is written by Steve Lewis, the “journalist” responsible for the “Utegate” fabrication, and up to his eyeballs in the Slippergate scandal as well. With a pedigree like that, i guess we shouldn’t expect too much from him. It claims: CHILDREN visiting federal parliament will be deprived of free bottled water and fruit treats as Treasurer Wayne Swan plays Grinch to school groups. In the latest budget crackdown even teachers who shepherd the kids through the building will no longer get tea and coffee — all for a saving of $235,000 a year.

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Leadership Challenges And Newspoll

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Jun 242012
 

You can just about set your watch by it. Every time there is a Newspoll out in the field, the Murdoch owned News Limited fish wrappers will run a story on a supposed leadership challenge by Kevin Rudd against the Prime Minister Julia Gillard. This weekend is no exception. Newspoll is of course run by News Limited, and they are currently working the phones as I write this. Beyond doubt one of the questions they will be asking is about who voters would prefer as Prime Minister, Ms Gillard or Mr Rudd. You can bet  your house on it. To gee things up a bit on this (apparently) burning issue, one of the News Limited rags always publishes an article on an alleged leadership challenge

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News Limited Deliberately Lying Again

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Jun 192012
 

Murdoch vs Murdoch. Compare the quotes from two different Murdoch publications: From the Wall Street Journal: “We are not coming here to receive lessons in terms of democracy or in terms of how to manage our economy,” said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. Mr. Barroso, asked by a Canadian reporter why North Americans should help pay for Europe’s crisis, broke from his conciliatory tone and effectively blamed U.S. practices for causing the European troubles. “This crisis was not originated in Europe,” Mr. Barroso said. “This crisis was originated in North America. Many in our financial sector were contaminated by unorthodox practices from some sectors of the financial market.” Meanwhile on news.com.au: In an embarrassing swipe at the PM, on the first day of the

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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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