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gogogostudynow•

Face it: the fourth estate no longer exists in Australia, all we have is for-profit entertainment enterprises trying to make as much money as possible for their shareholders.

News Ltd and Fairfax are capitalist corporations which will always put their shareholder interests (money) before the good of the nation.

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Not_Stupidhumility is overrated•

Being corporate entities doesn't bother me so much. But I simply cannot believe the complete lack of self-awareness characterised by the Age's editorial (and subsequent defences thereof).

As this blog points out, it is the media who have ignored serious policy discussions in favour of a never-ending stream of Leadershit speculation. Elements of the Rudd camp have most certainly assisted, but the media decides what to report and who to believe.

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Even friggin "I need to read the script to ask the next question moron Fran Kelly" on Radio National every day drones on about this shit. It got so bad they needed to do a segment on Australian Manufacturing to show they weren't singularly focused on this deadbeat issue of the media's making.

Kelly after 5 years back in Australia listening to your shit I now get the Today show podcast from the BBC and listen to yesterday's news because the presenters there ask intelligent questions. And I don't have to listen to Tony Eastley being a smart arse with you. Kelley and Eastley, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, B1 and B2.

Plus Brisbane around 982 AM has this station that reads out interesting news articles from The Economist, New Yorker and such like. Radio National early morning news and current affairs is very superficial.

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Half right.

News Ltd and Fairfax are capitalist corporations which will always put their shareholder interests (money) before the good of the nation.

He does put shareholders before the nation but they're merely mugs whose money he uses to get what HE wants. No shareholder goes before Murdoch or his family interests.

Aye he built the companies - but not honestly - by making sure govt's in Australia and Britain gave him what he wanted. Favours or blackmail, you call it.

Murdoch dumbed down the newspapers he owns to the LCD. 1/ It's cheaper that way. 2/ He then controls what you hear and subsequently think. I think he passed that off as entertainment. 3/ Murdoch becomes King / PM maker because he says, "the fucken plebs will see what i want them to see, and that can get you elected. You do want to be, or wish to stay PM don't you Gough/Malcolm/Bob/Paul/John/Kevin/Julia/Tony..."

He has done so much harm to our society. Why don't we have science and technology as the centre piece of our society - our wealth derives from it. Don't expect insight into the political shenanigans of any party. Murdoch keeps quiet so they owe him the favour / accept the blackmail. The cost for us is closed government and an ineffective democracy.

I'd jail Murdoch over Assagne or Snowden any friggin day. But then again even after 100's have received compensation from Murdoch's criminal activity - even after the Levinson enquiry, the cunt goes out and buys a $75 million boat AND HE'S STILL SCOT FREE

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