“It sounds unreal to
say that News Corp is not a media organisation. It sounds outré to say that it
is instead a political propaganda entity of a kind perhaps not seen since the
19th century, one that has climbed to its pedestal through regulatory
capture, governmental favours and menace, and is now applying its energies to
the promotion of white nationalism, even as white nationalists commit scores of
murders.” [Journalist Richard Cooke wiring in The Monthly,
May 2019],
It is your judgement that counts because the right and responsibility to elect the next Australian Government rests with you, the Australian voter, not with an elderly authoritarian U.S. billionaire who rarely visits this country.
Australian society is not as tolerant of Murdoch's sense of entitlement as it once may have been......
— 💧🐟 Lotta Cheek (@lottacheek) May 11, 2019
March 2018 to March 2019 year-to-year data shows News Corp's principal mastheads are losing readership over the 7 day circulation period, according to Roy Morgan.
By its own admission News Corp has been lobbying local government to keep its community papers afloat in South Australia.
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