Andrew Bolt's Blog,28/9/18; There's really only been one song in the Murdochian songbook and Bolt is still playing it and it's not Turnbull; The next stage in a grand plan;

TURNBULL'S DEADLY TOUCH: NOW SACK ABC BOARD

It's the Turnbull kiss of death. Malcolm Turnbull, sacked as PM, leaned on his mate Justin Milne, who's just sacked himself as ABC chairman, who last Sunday sacked ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie, after she didn't sack some ABC staff who Turnbull hated. But now the ABC board should be sacked, too. My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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" It's the Turnbull kiss of death. Malcolm Turnbull sacked as PM, leaned on his mate Justin Milne, who's just sacked himself as ABC chairman, who last Sunday sacked ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie after she didn't sack some ABC staff who Turnbull hated. 
But now the ABC board should be sacked, too."Bolt
 Andrew Bolt's little fantasy play is constantly about the boorish undemocratic minority in the Liberal Party that refuses to accept the consensus of the majority. Murdoch and Tony Abbott made their pact that News Corp would support little Tony well over 5 years ago.  If the Mad Monk destroyed the ABC the kingdom would be his. It was Rupert's father's business model and plan as far back as 1939  and it worked a treat in the US so why not keep trying here and in the UK.
Well, Murdoch didn't count on the majority of the Liberals voting Abbott out, did he? The plan, however, was never short term it was a dynastic ambition even if his horizon was in the far distance. Turnbull was an interloper never really Murdoch's man. Murdoch is well known for telling others that Turnbull must go and the message clear in News Corp's never-ending effort to get rid of Turnbull.  Their persistent attack on Turnbull dated back to when he was the opposition leader the plan and long-term business goal was ridding Australia of it's most trusted media source the ABC in the and so diminishing Australian Democracy and running the country with a Corporate Coalition.
That ambition was accelerated with when Australia's version of Fox News, Sky News after dark was born. Rid Australia of the ABC and there'd be a long-term profitable cabal of News Corp, the IPA, and any extreme Liberal ready to jump on board, Mussolini's dream of the ideal Fascist State. However, the ABC that practised sceptical and critical journalism and represented the people stood in their way.
With Guthrie and Milne gone all that's left is to get rid of the board and then Morrison, a Cultural conservative might just have the balls to smother the ABC's flame further. It doesn't even matter if he loses the next election because the plan then would be to restore Abbott in place as opposition leader. If Morrison won with the help of News Corp Abbott will be put back into a cabinet position and Murdoch's version of a media run Nation would continue and Democracy a very distant memory. We have to remember Murdoch's dad Kieth tried to rid Australia of the ABC as far back as 80 years ago.
As for Andrew Bolt well, he's just one of Murdoch's sock puppets and a member of the IPA. However, he has no interest in Australia and has done nothing of merit just ensured he mixed with the right crowd since a boy and ensured he'd be used by the Australian elite but who certainly don't regard him as one of their own. Merely someone that's been a gun for hire and not a very good but one with the mindset that makes a loyal drone.
The corporatisation of the Anglosphere may have become Murdoch's business model only after he became an American but the realisation that he was in the business of influence has never really left him that was handed down. After all his father established the IPA as far back as the forties and Murdoch has assisted that slumbering giant to waken in modern times. Is it any coincidence he was here to witness the fall of Turnbull? Don't forget his efforts to boost Abbott that went awry at the Alfalfa Club as well. No matter the mistakes the plan keeps rolling on.

ABC

ABC turmoil: Push for entire  board to be forced out

A chorus of angry voices want more heads to roll at the national broadcaster amid questions about the board's conduct over demands to sack two high-profile journalists.

Independance defined by the LNP and now being invetigated by the LNP

  ABC board members appointed by Fifield despite being rejected by merit-based panel | Media | The Guardian

 Almost all the directors of the ABC’s eight-member board were appointed directly by the minister for communications, Mitch Fifield, and some were appointed after being rejected by the merit-based nominations panel, documents obtained by the Guardian show.


“It is also important that the ABC maintain a very unbiased approach to how it reports things. That it gets it right and gets the facts right and Australians, I think, rightly have high expectations of the ABC and it is up to the board to make sure that they deliver.”Morrison

This sounds more like a warning to me  without any admission about how the government refuses to act at "arm's length"

Morrison defended the process of board appointments, which have come under renewed scrutiny this week, but Labor says appointments need to be made “at arm’s length”. Guardian

A plague on democracy — Murdoch, Turnbull and demagoguery

Turnbull’s own detractors from within his own party did not receive generous dollops of encouragement from the News Corp fraternity and those with a traditional fixation nourished by the world view of Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch is in the business of backing, moulding and overthrowing governments. Some do it by the power of the gun backed by foreign finance, others prefer a battalion of editors and self-entitled opinion makers to do what amounts to much the same thing. The blood quotient might be less, but the impact is still impressively devastating.
Australia’s own national broadcaster has been wading in these troubled waters of late, taking the view that the country’s media moguls, supported by a phalanx of populist brutes gathered at Sky News and Radio 2GB, played a decisive part in forcing the hand that signed the death warrant in the Liberal party room.
‘Few executives are as synonymous with their companies as Rupert Murdoch is with his. News Corp, he had said in the past, “for better or worse, is a reflection of my thinking, my character and my values”.’  Richard Cooke


 

How The Trumps Screwed Palestine

Deconstructed — May. 18  Podcast

 On Monday, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and other members of the Trump administration celebrated the opening of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, while at the same time and just a few miles away, Israeli snipers shot at hundreds of unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza. More than 60 people were killed in a single day, including children. Predictably, the U.S. media went into pro-Israeli propaganda mode, blaming all of the violence and killing on Hamas, which for all its many sins, didn’t actually kill anyone this week. On this week’s episode of Deconstructed, two Palestinians join Mehdi Hasan to discuss U.S. coverage of Palestine and how to get prominent Democratic politicians to take the Palestinian struggle for freedom seriously.