Wednesday 11 November 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL 11/11/20 Men in the Canberra bubble behaving badly; News Corp and Climate Change; COVID and the US vote;

 

 

 

  

Liberal Ministers Reaffirm Position That Marriage Is A Sacred Union Between A Woman, A Man And His Bit On The Side

"It's about giving a child a biological mother and father. And a step mother and a half sister,” 

 Christian Porter class action lawsuits

The idea that this party boy, while allegedly engaging in such compromising behaviour, is persecuting and harassing two patriots who have served their country so well on the basis that they are a threat to national security is utterly sickening.

What else do we not know about Christian Porter? What do third parties know about him that he would prefer to keep secret?

In a government that insists it’s all about national security, Porter must be sacked.

To simply say his past should be forgotten is telling us there is one rule for the elite and select and another for the rest of us. To try to tell us Tudge practices what he preaches and Morrison to say they didn't do anything untoward on my watch shows just what a do nothing arsehole he is. A real role model for how we should all behave. How generous and unprotective would he be if it was his wife? 

The ABC has exposed the sordid side of Canberra in the public interest

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull and News Corp's Paul Kelly have a heated debated on Q&A on Monday night.

Murdoch's News Corp defends climate coverage in escalating Turnbull stoush

News Corp is attempting to defuse the former prime minister's criticism after he locked horns with a senior editor on Q&A over coverage of the national bushfire crisis and climate change 

What seemed to be overlooked by Paul Kelly, the solitary defender of News Corp on Q&A, was while his argument may have had some validity some 50 years ago it no longer does. The systemic change in the media landscape in Australia over the past half a century has seen diversity lost. The diversity he's talking about simply isn't there any longer. The macro division is simply between private & public  broadcasting overlaid by the growth of big tech and the algorithms of digital technologies.

Murdoch being the largest fish in the English speaking news ocean. His business model's focus has changed from supplying a diversity of news and opinion to harvesting subscriptions like a whale does krill to exist. Ratings to sell to  the largest concentration of money in the market whose existence depends on  influencing the politics of the rest of us.

Kelly and Morrison simply overlooked the global and multinational nature of Murdoch's operation arguing it's merely another media operation in our market place. If that were the case News,Corp would have gone bust years ago and Kelly would be out of a job. The fossil fuel industry is a planetary global mega-bemoth industry and Climate Change a consequence threatens it's very existence. Murdoch with Genie Oil is a heavy investor and his business model services their mutual interests. Kelly's attempt to cast News Corp as simply another private news source fails.

News Corp is a mega political influencer a super spreader of global influence  which is used to confuse, obfuscate and divide opinion with regard the global problem the fossil energy industries have helped create and that science has discovered and defined. The problem the fossil fuel industries suspected existed for almost a century but were too reluctant to address.


Climate CrimesU.S. Withdrawal From Paris Agreement Casts the Stakes of Election in Planetary Terms

 Donald Trump's handing of the pandemic does not appear to have cost him many votes.





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