05-25-2022, 12:53 AM
It might be time for this new parliament to pass more stringent laws concerning media ownership. What's Murdoch going to do? Threaten to unleash a concerted attack on Labor through his media holdings? He's already done that and had about as much impact as Clive Palmer. The Emperor has been shown to have no clothes.
In case anybody thinks that it would be anti-democratic to "punish" a media owner for using his media entities to express his own views, I'd make 2 points. First, he has managed to wield his influence to water down the restrictions on the concentration of media ownership - reversing that corruption of public policy would improve our democracy. Secondly, the way Murdoch runs Fox News in the USA should be evidence enough that he should have absolutely no media involvement in Australia. He has used Fox News to incite anti-democratic fervour. He seems perfectly fine with a white nationalist overthrow of democracy. How in hell isn't that grounds for expelling him from the Australian media landscape?
In case anybody thinks that it would be anti-democratic to "punish" a media owner for using his media entities to express his own views, I'd make 2 points. First, he has managed to wield his influence to water down the restrictions on the concentration of media ownership - reversing that corruption of public policy would improve our democracy. Secondly, the way Murdoch runs Fox News in the USA should be evidence enough that he should have absolutely no media involvement in Australia. He has used Fox News to incite anti-democratic fervour. He seems perfectly fine with a white nationalist overthrow of democracy. How in hell isn't that grounds for expelling him from the Australian media landscape?