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Paying for Page 3 girls
A Crikey editorial rightly questions Rupert Murdoch’s view that charging for online content will save journalism: “We intend to charge for all our news websites”, Rupert Murdoch announced this morning, after unveiling News Corp’s 32% profit downturn for the past financial year. “Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content…
When the lobby likes to tell lies
The following letter appeared in the Australian Jewish News on July 10: Last week a member of the Jewish community was slandered in the media but I’m not expecting Jamie Hyams’ “Media Week” column to point out the glaring unfairness of the description. Why? Because the person was the community’s enfant terrible, Antony Loewenstein. I…
Gazans deserve being bombed to death
The recent visit to Israel by Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and a bunch of Murdoch columnists has clearly paid off for the Zionist lobby. Witness this piece by a Melbourne Murdoch editor, Alan Howe: The people of Gaza are set to be the first to bomb themselves back to the Stone Age. Serves them right……
Loewenstein sucks, says Jew
The following letter appeared in a recent edition of the Australian Jewish News: Sorry Sal Salbe, but on balance, Greg Sheridan is correct (AJN 10/07). Antony Loewenstein might occasionally criticise the Iranian regime on his blog, but compared to his repeated and hysterical media condemnations of Israel he is, as Sheridan phrased it, listless. Proof…
How to become a communist with Obama
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News tells me that Barack Obama is “destroying capitalism” over his proposed health care plan. That sounds like good news to me, but tell me more, Rupert:
More information should be accessible
Last week the London Guardian reported on the Murdoch press in the UK delving into the secrets of countless celebrities and public figures. Wikileaks challenges the mainstream response: The News of the World didn’t go far enough. Earlier this year, WikiLeaks released 86 telephone recordings of corrupt Peruvian politicians and businessmen. The revelations became the…
Fox News notes West Bank resistance
A Fox News report from the Palestinian town of Bilin, the site of weekly protests against the apartheid wall. The discussion is inane and the host back in the US can’t, like, totally understand that an occupation is taking place, but having such images in the mainstream media is certainly a positive development (thanks to…
My name is Rupert and I produce this
Next time anybody thinks that the Murdoch establishment is based on fairness, accuracy, balance or ethics, remember this: Rupert Murdoch’s News Group News…papers has paid out more than …£1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories. The payments secured…
‘If You Don’t Agree With Us You’re Antisemitic’
My latest New Matilda column, co-written with Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull, responds to predictable charges of political bias by the Zionist lobby: Labor MP Michael Danby’s accusation of antisemitism against two Jewish writers is a false and dangerous misuse of that term, write the accused, Michael Brull and Antony Loewenstein Sometimes, people…