24-02-2012, 11:52 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Jan Klimkowski Wrote:A very Australian coup.
Sponsored by the Usual Suspects.
Spun by Their mockingbirds.
Something I'm not informed about [but would be interested to hear from 'down under'], is does R. Murdoch still have much of 'presence' in news/propaganda in OZ? ....and how are those 'assets' responding to all this?
Murdoch is media down here. Always was always will be. The journalists I have known here have worked in fear of losing their jobs if they do any thing too risky because they would basically be unemployable given that most such positions have a Murdoch pay check. Murdoch is backing Julia by the way.
Just for some more recent back ground information on Australian media the bits that are not Murdoch are the ABC which is government public broadcasting and Fairfax print media. Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart,a mining magnate, who is so reactionary it seems even her ultra reactionary father, Lang Hancock, couldn't stand her, has just bought her own tv station, channel 10 and stacked it with anti climate change mouthpieces. She is in the middle of a take over of Fairfax media likey for the same reasons. This came after a meeting with Lord Monckton who recommended Australia get its own version of 'Fox News' and the Tea Party. Here is a video of a private meeting of Lord Monckton and the mining lobby here in Australia discussing how to manipulate the media:
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3807130.html
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.