With聽Fox News raking in viewer numbers, seizing about 70% of the market in November, Rupert Murdoch is keen to ensure the profits continue to roll in by entrusting Lachlan Murdoch full control. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Pro-nuclear pundits are using push-polling tricks to sway opinions which include biased preliminary comments, biased questions, limited response options and misreporting the findings. Jim Green reports.
Good riddance to Rupert Murdoch, but don't hold your breath for any positive change to his massive media empire, writes Sue Bull.
While Kevin Rudd鈥檚 petition for a 鈥渟trong鈥 and 鈥渄iverse鈥 news media has proved to be very popular, Alex Bainbridge suggests a royal commission won't solve the fundamental problem.
If you walked past a Brisbane newsstand on the morning of February 27, you may have noticed it was a little bare. That鈥檚 because three activists were elbow-deep in cement-filled barrels the night before, blockading the exit of News Corp's Murarrie printing press, writes聽Cassidy Chapman.
The normalisation of the war on terror has become the standard refrain from the mainstream media (MSM), which would rather sensationalise and beat up stories of petty crime than investigate corporate crime.
The so called 鈥渞iots鈥, supposedly orchestrated by a Dandenong-based Apex gang in the aftermath of the 2016 Moomba Parade, is a case in point. The media is attempting to whip up fear to promote the major parties 鈥渢ough on crime鈥 approach, but the reality is that crime rates all over the country are falling.