Andrew Bolt's Blog,22/1/17; Did Rupert Murdoch read Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Message & The Global Village and changed the nature of his media business plan to make culture his business? Andrew Bolt is just an accident waiting to happen a tool in Murdoch's and Ailes's design. Pinnochio Bolt has began to believe his own press years ago and now believes he dances and moves without strings just as Tony Abbott once did and Donald Trump believes now..

 Battlelines are now drawn in the war against transparency and truth

Alan Austin has a few tactics to help us win the oncoming war against #fakenews and #posttruth.

‘Fake news is a type of hoax or deliberate spread of misinformation in social media or traditional news media with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically.’

" The three developed countries whose mainstream newspapers and TV have been most seriously contaminated by fake news are the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. This is principally the result of the malicious influence of media proprietor Rupert Murdoch."

 Far from original a symptom of News Corp's business plan, modelling himself on Fox News USA personalities O'Rielly and Hannity,  birth child of sexual predator Roger Ailes king maker of Donald Trump is "Australia’s most notorious fake news generator is a “journalist” with Murdoch’s Herald Sun – Andrew Bolt – who has been found to have fabricated “news” by the Victorian Magistrates Court, the Supreme Court and the Federal Court.
In the notorious Eatock v Bolt case, the critical issue on which Bolt was found to have violated the racial discrimination act was his lack of truth.
The judge determined that"

"... the facts asserted in the Newspaper Articles that the people dealt with chose to identify as Aboriginal have been substantially proven to be untrue."

'the critical issue on which Bolt was

found to have violated the racial

discrimination act was his lack of truth'

"Bolt has also been found by academics and others to have fabricated or spread untruths regarding the environment, climate change, the stolen generations, Julia Gillard and other matters. Bolt is not alone in Murdoch’s Australian stable."