Posted on 11/09/2020 9:08:08 AM PST by rintintin
Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has called for a major government inquiry into the tight ownership of Australian media by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, securing almost 140,000 signatures on a petition after just three days.
Mr Rudd, who was prime minister from 2007 to 2010 and briefly in 2013, filed a petition calling on parliament to set up a royal commission to investigate what he called the "abuse of media monopoly in Australia in particular by the Murdoch media".
"The truth is Murdoch has become a cancer, an arrogant cancer on our democracy," Mr Rudd said in a video posted on Twitter on Saturday, urging people to sign the petition, which also called for recommendations to boost media diversity.
(Excerpt) Read more at sbs.com.au ...
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