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Murdoch’s ethical bypass (and lieutenants who back it)
Bruce Guthrie is a former News Limited editor and author of Man Bites Murdoch. He writes today in Fairfax papers that the challenging of the Murdoch empire reveals a hollow moral core: In 1988, while attending a conference of News Corporation editors in Aspen, Colorado, I made the mistake of raising the thorny issue of…
How Rupert should think about Watergate and worry
One half of the Watergate investigators who hasn’t spent the last decades fawning before power, Carl Bernstein, writes in Newsweek that the current Murdoch controversy has historical reverberations: But now the empire is shaking, and there’s no telling when it will stop. My conversations with British journalists and politicians—all of them insistent on speaking anonymously…
Strong reasons Murdoch should be shunned from decent society
One: Throughout his years in power, Blair had regular secret meetings with Murdoch, many abroad, and was in regular telephone contact. Price has gone as far as to claim that Murdoch “seemed like the 24th member of the cabinet”. Blair insisted no record was ever kept of the meetings or calls, so they were totally…
Rupert cares about family and power; ideology always comes second
Andreas Whittam Smith in the Independent reminds us what the Murdoch empire is really about: At its heart, News Corporation, for all its immense global interests, is a family company. The Murdochs may not control all the voting rights in the group, but they run it as if they did. It is not a place…
Investigate the Murdoch empire in Australia
An eminently reasonable call. This should be extended to the influence and power of all corporate media interests. How are benefits achieved? Who is meeting whom? When and how? A real democracy doesn’t allow one family to own so many media titles: The leader of Australia’s Green party has called on the government to investigate…
