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Rupert Murdoch

'You will not have a son!' Murdoch family feud exposed in blockbuster investigation

The article explores James and Lachlan's competing visions for Fox News, with James wanting to move it in a more centrist direction and Lachlan wanting to keep it strongly conservative.
James Murdoch has since left the family business. He has reportedly dismissed the slimmed-down Fox Corporation, which Lachlan controls, as "an American political project".

Using 150 interviews on three continents, The Times describes the Murdoch family’s role in destabilizing democracy in North America, Europe and Australia.

How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World - The New York Times

His 24-hour news-and-opinion network, the Fox News Channel, had by then fused with President Trump and his base of hard-core supporters, giving Murdoch an unparalleled degree of influence over the world’s most powerful democracy. In Britain, his London-based tabloid, The Sun, had recently led the historic Brexit crusade to drive the country out of the European Union — and, in the chaos that ensued, helped deliver Theresa May to 10 Downing Street. In Australia, where Murdoch’s power is most undiluted, his outlets had led an effort to repeal the country’s carbon tax — a first for any nation — and pushed out a series of prime ministers whose agenda didn’t comport with his own. And he was in the midst of the biggest deal of his life: Only a few weeks before his fall on Lachlan’s yacht, he shook hands on a London rooftop with Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, consummating a preliminary agreement to sell his TV and film studio, 21st Century Fox, to Disney for $52.4 billion. But control of this sprawling empire was suddenly up in the air.
Across the English-speaking world, the family’s outlets have helped elevate marginal demagogues, mainstream ethnonationalism and politicize the very notion of truth. The results have been striking. It may not have been the family’s mission to destabilize democracies around the world, but that has been its most consequential legacy.

Part 2: Inside the Succession Battle for the Murdoch Empire - The New York Times

Part 3: The New Fox Weapon

The Climate Change Murdochians continue to deny

I THOUGHT THE LIBERALS SHOULD LOSE. THEN LABOR TALKED GLOBAL WARMING

COLUMN Until Labor went mad this week, I was like many conservatives. I thought the Liberals needed to lose the election and find their mongrel. But this week we got two documents that show we can't afford that fantasy: the Government's Budget, which shows the economy is fragile, and Labor's mad global warming policy, which would shred it.

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How predictable is Bolt you can see right through him? He, at his Billionaire master's instructions, will spend the next weeks pushing and kicking the usual old cans down the road sensationalising banners to sell subs to their papers. The Global Warming Religion, the benefits of CO2, Science is crap, Coal is essential and will be their single approach to create concern. He won't mention the economic boom in jobs, and investment renewables have fueled and driven but will stick to the very repeated negative arguments that require neither work nor imagination. They are the arguments he's pushed in many cases for the past 20 years. Mind you he's dropped some of his scientific cherry-picked references one by Spencer that had him claiming the planet was cooling for the past 20 years, hasn't he?
Coal, Carbon Tax, Asylum Seekers, Islam, Immigrant Crime, Nationalism, reverse bigotry against real white Aussies, free speech and overpopulation will be Andrew Bolt's lazy bag of tricks which will see him not doing much actual work as we head to the election. Just look how little he's done this week one wonders if he's done it at all his columns are all repetition and his blogs paywalls.
In the election runup fear and panic will take over from debate and reason not that Bolt really ever used logic wait and see. However, there won't be a debt and deficit disaster this time around that was the three word slogan given Abbott.
Of course, he will be boosting Abbott's stocks in preparation for an LNP loss. Kicking Julia Banks and defending the likes of non-politicians and non political parties like One Nation because he needs all these conservatives to fill the space on his show.

2018 was boom year for renewables despite political chaos, report finds

Check out the Netherlands

https://www.facebook.com/climatereality/videos/443053363104553/?t=25
Andrew Bolt is so proud to be Dutch. Dreams of retiring in a country that's far more Socialist than we are. Far more Climate Change and renewable focused than we are and is far more Multicultural with a more non-Caucasian and Islamic population than Melbourne. Amsterdam's population is twice that of our's living in a smaller space. How hypocritical is Andrew Bolt in running down Melbourne voted on many occasions as the world's most livable city? Is it any wonder he feels unwanted here?

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LIBERALS OFFER ABC ELECTION SWEETENER. OR A BRIBE?

COLUMN The ABC is now so big and lethal that political parties effectively bribe its news division before an election. Labor did it in 2013, and is promising the ABC more this election. On Tuesday even the Morrison Government offered the ABC a $44 million election sweetener - only to be reminded the next day it really was just feeding its enemy. Crazy.

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Repetition sure is!! He did it a few days ago.
The LNP kicked off its 2013 term with trying to destroy the ABC with Abbott's broken promise of "No Cuts" resulting in a $200 mill one. It was followed up with another $80 mill cut and some government inquiries to prove it wasn't following its unbiased statutory requirements. All failed miserably, so severely they were an embarrassment to the government. It was confirmed the government had appointed CEO's, Board members not independently but directly by Captain's Calls. It was a fiasco showing the government was biased in favour of the wishes of the private corporate media in a quid pro quo arrangement to get rid of the ABC. Specifically, News Corp was the intended beneficiary of their political largess. However, they failed and failed badly in the process.
Today's facts are evidence of what has been actually going on, and the threat of public awareness of this attack on the ABC could cost them votes. So $44 mill has been handed back in the hope of saving some face, not as Bolt has suggested a bribe or sweetener.
As often pointed out the ABC is the best-managed and most trusted media outlet in the country running at the equivalent cost as it was in 1984. Bolt trying to say that's a burden which shows him up for what he is just a mouthpiece for Murdoch a stupid one at that. Murdoch wants the ABC broken up, gone as promised by successive LNP PMs who said they will take care of it but couldn't. So yes, this is neither a sweetner nor a bribe but a rapid attempt at backpedalling to appease the electorate.

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ON TURNBULL'S HATRED

I tend to believe it of that vindictive man the Liberals stupidly made Prime Minister: "Finance Minister Cormann['s] bright commercial future has become as overcast... Turnbull allies have told Margin Call that a “salting of the earth” is under way to spoil Cormann’s once promising private sector future." And see what else Turnbull is doing...

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Bolt has it seems been reduced to being a paperboy on blog corner. Banners to attract his job. He seems to have gone on a work to rule approach to his new Instructions. Blog corner never really his own. His radio gig with Steve Price has gone, and his podcast never made on the 31rst. One can only hope the wheels are coming off and over promoted puff piece pretending to be an informed commentator.
The banner says it all, doesn't it? When Murdoch Media has little to say in praise of the LNP they turn to blame Turnbull who they now seem to think is as powerful if not more powerful than the opposition. It wasn't that long ago we were told he was weak and had to go!! Bolt sounds just as he is dumb as bats**t.

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ASK LABOR MPS WHY THEY DON'T BUY THESE CARS THEMSELVES

Australians, left to themselves, bought just 2200 electric cars last year. Labor, maddened with its global warming faith, wants to force them to buy around 575,000 electric cars a year, or half the new car fleet by 2030. Every Labor MP should be asked why they haven't themselves bought one of these cars that they now insist the rest of us must.

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Sorry Bolt's totally wrong on that regard just as you ask why the Labor Opposition flies to the ACT. Bolt's childish questions asked when the country is in a state of transition expects not to take into account the state of current affairs. Why does Andrew Bolt a self-declared Australian Nationalist not holiday in Australia and dream of retirement in the Netherlands? Why because the state of affairs makes him paranoid about walking out the front door, but he happily lets his family do it. I'd call it domestic violence.
The reason the ALP hasn't changed over to electric like most of the world has and Australia is lagging is the fact there has been no enthusiasm on the part of the LNP to use their direct action policy to build any infrastructure to support such programs. Having bought a brand new fleet of fossil-fueled BMWs, they have shown no intention to do so. The question better asked why hasn't the Murdoch Corporation informed the Australian public what in fact is occurring elsewhere to encourage change. The news isn't their primary business is why they are lobbyists for the mining and fossil fuel industries is why.

Thursday 4 April 2019