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American Muslims show deep tolerance (not that Murdoch and friends really care)
If only the bigots, haters, many politicians and media hacks took a deep breath more often: Muslims in the United States express greater tolerance for members of other faiths than any other major religious group, according to a major new survey and report released here Thursday by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center. They are also…
This is called making peace with Murdoch because you need him
Desperate political times result in an Australian Prime Minister asking for fair coverage of her policies; this is also known as bowing to what the Murdoch empire wants and should not receive; elevation of its perceived power. Stop indulging the unethical grubs: After months of festering tensions between the government and News Ltd, the Prime…
The idea of Murdoch running schools is as credible as Iraq being re-invaded
The New Statesman explains what the closeness between the Murdoch empire and Britain’s Cameron government says about the corruption of power: At last month’s Times CEO summit (…£) he called for all pupils to be provided with tablet computers, adding that he would be “thrilled” if 10 per cent of News Corp’s revenues came from…
Note to Zionists; it’s a civil duty to protest companies complicit with occupation
Which is why this story in Murdoch’s Australian – fair and balanced as usual, presuming that simply protesting outside a company with ties to the IDF is anti-Semitic by definition – is so revealing. There’s fear that BDS is taking off globally and what do critics do? Allege anti-Semitism and desperately hope that nobody talks…
Was Murdoch also given the nuclear codes?
Here in Australia, we need to know when our political leaders met key figures in the Murdoch empire (and other media players) and why they met: The extraordinary access that Cabinet ministers granted Rupert Murdoch and his children was revealed for the first time yesterday, with more than two dozen private meetings between the family…
How many people failed to deal with Murdoch hacking?
Far too many and the question is why: The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there were a “vast array” of News of the World phone-hacking victims. Lord Macdonald, who has since been hired by the newspaper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, was…
Poor little Murdoch hacks don’t like being challenged
Get used to it. Wendy Bacon, professor of journalism at the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney, writes today that the empire is feeling real pressure for the first time in living memory: On Thursday, with News Corporation awash in allegations of criminality and failed corporate governance, I sent an…