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Rupert Murdoch has always influenced votes in Oz but lately his power seems to have waned. He opposed the Albanese Labor party but they still won.
I worked for News Corp when Lachlan Murdoch ran it. He famously sent around a memo to all the staff to "not bother using the internet as it's a passing fad."..it was when using the internet cost real money.
Positive to hear the malign influence of Murdoch may be waning in Aus, and hopefully elsewhere.
Ironically, perhaps because of the internet fad young Lachlan watched pass him by...
I still haven't seen evidence of what type of conservative Lachlan Murdoch is..old style or the new wacky brand.
Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd called for a Royal Commission into Murdoch's empire and he got over half a million signatures.
Lachlan (a very pleasant guy in person) runs US Fox and Murdoch USA empire from a "basement bunker" in Sydney in a huge luxury house compound not a stone's throw from my compact flat. His residence is high on a hill with sweeping Harbour and Seaside Bondi views.
Kevin Rudd is now the Oz ambassador to the USA and worked behind the scenes lobbying for the US to drop Julian Assange charges.
Donald Trump said a few weeks ago "I hear Rudd is not a very guy".
Rupert Murdoch has always influenced votes in Oz but lately his power seems to have waned. He opposed the Albanese Labor party but they still won.
I worked for News Corp when Lachlan Murdoch ran it. He famously sent around a memo to all the staff to "not bother using the internet as it's a passing fad."..it was when using the internet cost real money.
Positive to hear the malign influence of Murdoch may be waning in Aus, and hopefully elsewhere.
Ironically, perhaps because of the internet fad young Lachlan watched pass him by...
Wyot
Reginald wrote: The media won't affect PR any more or less than other electoral system.
Surely it must be easier for media barons to effect change through backing a single party and leader which wins, than through a diffuse coalition of parties and interest groups?
But I accept that media-monopolies will influence the thinking of the masses on key issues in general.
Reginald
The media won't affect PR any more or less than other electoral system. PR gives minority groups a bigger say, and will precipitate a need for more coalition governments (not viewed, by many, as the best option). Like in the Republic of Ireland.
Wyot wrote, "Democracy to some extent has always been illusory."
Quote late great cynic George Carlin, "A window dressing illusion of choice." Masking the US/UK unelected permanent Deep State for power not for the people. Greedy Banks fund an aggressive Military fuelling Wars for a devious Media with unstated subtext, "No Profit in Peace."
While China's business is business, U.S. Business is War!
Quote late great U.S. Major General Smedley Butler, 1933, "WAR IS A RACKET! It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to
the majority of people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is
conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of
war a few people make huge fortunes."
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