The sheer awfulness of the Murdoch press. Quality journalism, indeed: Gillian Duffy, the Rochdale pensioner whom Gordon Brown described as “a sort of bigoted woman”, turned down the chance to make a small fortune from selling her story to The Sun because the newspaper wanted her to say things she did not believe. The offer…
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Poor Murdoch clan, British public don’t take their cues from The Sun
Key lesson for the day. Rupert Murdoch and his minions don’t like being attacked (or not helping to select future leaders of a country. Real democrats): After a lifetime at the helm of the world’s most powerful media organisation and in the crosshairs of the left, Rupert Murdoch has, of necessity, developed a reasonably thick…
Murdoch cares for nothing more than being close to the big boys
Briton David Yelland, former editor of Murdoch’s Sun newspaper and now PR man, writes a very insightful column in the Guardian. A rare understanding of the Murdoch view of the world – namely, power at any cost with ideology a long way behind: I doubt if Rupert Murdoch watched the election debate last week. His…
Chomsky fears the rise of fascism in the US
We have been warned: Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States. “I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and…
Israel is behaving like Fidel Castro, says Fox News
Fox News interviews reporter Judith Miller recently on the Anat Kamm case. Host Shep Smith seems outraged that supposed democratic Israel would censor information and put an individual under house arrest. “This is very Fidel Castro”, he says. He tells viewers that when anybody says anything even mildly critical of Israel they are accused of…
Murdoch publishes pro-Colombo propaganda
What kind of newspaper publishes an article by an “expert on defence policy in the Indian Ocean” that argues post-war Sri Lanka is a place of harmony and peace, treating all its minorities with compassion and equality? Murdoch’s Australian. And the writer is Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe. The article is about as credible as Zionists claiming that…
Rupert the sage speaks about that bastion of quality journalism, Fox
Rupert Murdoch: Fox News has heaps of “conservative commentary, but there’s not a conservative angling of the news”.
How to treat a major media mogul who loves page 3 girls and illegal wire-tapping
What the BBC needs to do more often: “Find someone to articulately tell James Murdoch to fuck off.”
Murdoch hates the web but wants your money, anyway
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is now a an online-only newspaper, surviving and seemingly thriving in a new age. But its ability to report deeply on various issues has been reduced due to a lack of senior staff. Non-professional journalists have been asked to provide stories. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch is about to enter a brave a new…
How the Israel lobby plants hysterical stories in the Aussie media
One of the few Australian academics to actually publicly challenge Australia’s deep relationship with Israel and America is Scott Burchill. Here’s his latest missive: This mysterious story appeared on AM (ABC Radio) on Friday. Just dropped out of the blue. Nothing newsworthy about it. In fact the story is mostly nonsense – including accusations that…