Archive for 'Murdoch'
How you can support striking Fairfax workers
Posted by John, May 5th, 2017 - under Independent Australia, Murdoch, Murdochisation, Strikes.
Tags: Fairfax
Comments: 1
If the Fairfax bosses win this round, we’re on the way to almost complete mainstream media Murdochisation in Australia, writes John Passant in Independent Australia.
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We stand with Roz Ward and Safe Schools
Posted by John, June 2nd, 2016 - under Marxism, Murdoch, Roz Ward, Safe Schools, Socialism, Socialist, Universities.
Tags: Education
Comments: none
The following is a statement by the Victorian branch of the National Tertiary Education Union on La Trobe University’s shocking decision to suspend Roz Ward for a Facebook post that the Australian flag is racist. Roz has been a key person in the Safe Schools anti-bullying campaign for school students. The Murdoch owned Australian newspaper has run a witch hunt against her for her Marxist views, all with the aim of destroying Safe Schools which teaches respect and understanding for LGBTIQ students. McCarthyism is alive and well in Australia and La Trobe University’s decision is yet another example.
Join my ‘jihad’ against this rotten Australian government
Posted by John, September 1st, 2015 - under Media, Murdoch, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy, Social services.
Tags: Abbott government, ABC, Fairfax
Comments: 2
Until an anti-austerity mass movement and its political expression arise we will continue to have bad government after bad government in Australia. That new formation will I suspect only happen when we decide to take action as the working class against whoever is in power, the Liberals or Labor.
The Australian and the contest of ideas
Posted by John, January 5th, 2015 - under Media, Media diversity, Murdoch, News Corp, News Ltd, The Australian.
Tags: Fairfax, Free speech
Comments: 6
A variety of opinions? A contest of ideas? Only those writers imbued with the capitalist ethos are published in the mainstream media.
Me in New Matilda today on the Murdochisation of the Fairfax media
Posted by John, July 21st, 2014 - under Media, Media diversity, Murdoch, Murdochisation.
Tags: Fairfax
Comments: 1
John Passant offers a way forward for a once mighty newspaper empire in steady decline.
Phone hacking trial – Coulson’s conviction causes a crisis for British Prime Minister David Cameron
Posted by John, June 26th, 2014 - under Murdoch, News Corp, News of The World, Phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch.
Comments: 4
Phone hacking went on at an industrial scale, the court was told. It wasn’t just celebrities, writes Simon Basketter in Socialist Worker UK. Trade unionists and ordinary people had their phones hacked too. But this is not just about bad journalism. The scandal has revealed the unholy alliance between the police, the media and the political establishment. And it goes to the very top. The most prominent of the accused were David Cameron’s close friends.
Murdoch against Palmer: when thieves fall out
Posted by John, May 24th, 2014 - under Murdoch, Profit, Tax, The Australian.
Tags: Clive Palmer
Comments: 5
I love it when thieves fall out. The front page of The Australian today (Saturday) has analysed the tax position of Clive Palmer’s companies. They haven’t paid tax for 6 years. I am so looking forward to the Australian’s forensic analysis of the tax position of News Corpse both in Australia and globally. Black kettle […]
NSA hacks Rupert Murdoch’s phones
Posted by John, November 1st, 2013 - under Murdoch, NSA, Rupert Murdoch.
Comments: none
In breaking news the NSA has confirmed it has hacked Rupert Murdoch’s private phones for eleven years. ‘The fight against terrorism knows no bounds,’ spokesthing Joseph Dzhugashvili said. Barack Obama said ‘Of course.’ Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott denied Australia’s spy agencies had broken any AUSTRALIAN laws in helping the Americans.
Kick this Murdoch mob out
Posted by John, August 5th, 2013 - under Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, The Daily Telegraph.
Comments: 7
It says much about the state of politics in Australia that this Murdoch filth can smear their excrement on the Australian body politic. This is not just because mainstream politics has veered way to the right. It has. It is because Labor and unions have led this stampede – the ALP politically and the unions industrially. This has created the sewer pit from which Murdoch’s rags can spew their shit.
Gina Rinehart and a newspaper as plaything
Posted by John, February 2nd, 2012 - under Media diversity, Murdoch.
Tags: Fairfax, Gina Rinehart
Comments: 16
Media diversity now involves picking over the carcasses of the two parties to debate differences in their rotting entrails in detail. The best way to retain independence and some form of capitalist (ie narrow) media diversity, would be to strengthen unions.