Posted on 11/09/2020 9:13:54 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 ...
>> called for recommendations to boost media diversity
Fox is an independent operation and does not monopolize a federally licensed subscriber base like ATT and Comcast.
CNN is ATT — telecom
NBC, MSNBC are Comcast — telecom
Once again, malicious telecom goes unnoticed.
Yes, Fox was too eager to roll with Biden, but it’s nothing compared to ATT and Comcast.
Fox has called the presidential election for Biden.
Murdock = Moloch
Google = The Eye of Sauron
What would Facebook and Twitter be?
The article concerns media dominance. Rudd isn’t being truthful.
“ The article concerns media dominance. Rudd isn’t being truthful.”
What?
Disregard. I had US properties on my mind.
Long overdue. Time to break-up Big Media.
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