This article from the Australian news site "Crikey" touches on much more than just current goings on in the run up to the Australian election. The author argues that the Murdoch news empire is being cannibalized by the forces Murdoch himself helped unleash, and that this empire is in decline not just in Australia but in the US and the UK too.

Much to think about here. I wonder whether similar forces are at work in countries beyond the English speaking world where moguls have used media power to push their right wing agendas; Bolloré and the late and unlamented ( at least by me) Berlusconi come to mind.

2025 election: The Murdoch media no longer matters

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/31/2025-election-murdoch-media-news-corp-no-longer-matters/

Murdoch Press has begun its usual dirty tactics campaign in an effort to get Australia's version of Trump (Peter Dutton) elected

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/28/a-mugs-game-murdoch-presss-anti-labor-budget-coverage-foreshadows-election-attacks-to-come

Greg Jericho:
“The Albanese government has often – and rightly – been criticised for lacking policy boldness in areas such as climate change and the need to address inequality and poverty through measures such as increasing Jobseeker. But with regards to industrial relations, the government has shown that bold policy is not just possible, but also successful.”

Not going to see this sort of endorsement in #Murdoch or #Stokes propaganda.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/increased-enterprise-agreements-and-wages-show-the-governments-ir-policy-is-working/

Source； https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/

Rupert Murdoch: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past
#Hysteria #HysteriaPodcast
On episode 17 of "This F*cking Guy," Hysteria podcast hosts Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco dive deep into Rupert Murdoch’s unscrupulous past. From building a fake news media empire, to backstabbing his kids better than Logan Roy, to a relationship history to rival Henry VII, this guy is the grandpappy of evil meets ick.
#Murdoch #Thatcher #Trump #Epstein #RoyCohn
#Reagan #RogerStone #USpol #AUSpol #UKpol #NYC #NYpost #Fox #NewsCorp #Roger Ailes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbjTlwpC0c0

#thesaturdaypaper #barryjones

A reminder why you shouldn’t vote for either major party. They have been shafting us for years at the behest of foreign influencers and large orgs and we have been letting them. My biggest fear is they are still reading the #murdoch bible to make decisions in relation to Trump #labor #lnp.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/03/22/whats-stake-this-election

Splash away, I say. Splash away...
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#AusPol #Healthcare #Media #Sky #Murdoch #Pharmaceuticals #BigPharma (can get forked)

FFS your own dad helped fuck things up (to be fair she does seem to realise that albeit belatedly, whole family is in Court squabbling over money!). And none of these execs said anything when it started going pear shaped 30 years ago..

#UK #TVIndustry #media #Murdoch

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/18/uk-tv-industry-hit-by-perfect-storm-says-elisabeth-murdoch

More on Agent Orange being a Russian Asset - This time from Times Radio, a Murdoch property:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITYZPBJUuiMAsset

#Trump #Russia #agentorange #TrumpIsARussianAsset #Murdoch #TimesRadio @timesradio

In the 2010s, the United States approached the Russian standard of inequality. Although no American oligarchical clan has as yet captured the state, the emergence of such groups in the 2010s (Kochs, Mercers, Trumps, Murdochs) was hard to miss.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#usa #russia #oligarchy #koch #mercer #trump #murdoch

Conservative commentator Andrew Bolt turns on Trump
#AusNews #vicnews #maga #murdoch #media #trump #maga

https://www.victoriannews.com.au/opinion/analysis/conservative-commentator-andrew-bolt-turns-on-trump/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

#crikey #malcolmturnbull #tariffs #newscorp #murdoch #smh #trump

“ I won't be gaslit over Trump. If you suck up to him, you will get more bullying — Malcolm Turnbull(The Sydney Morning Herald): I was not surprised to see the News Corp publications gleefully adopting Trump's abuse and claiming that I had “torpedoed” any hopes of securing an exemption from steel and aluminium tariffs. It has always been most unlikely that Australia will secure an exemption this time. It was hard enough in 2018 and all the signals from the administration are that the tariffs will be applied across the board.

And it perhaps never occurred to the team at News Corp's Holt Street HQ in Sydney that it is utterly bizarre that the unremarkable comments of a former prime minister would cause the US to decide not to exempt Australia from tariffs. Not a word of criticism of Trump, of course!

I was amused to reflect on the mental stress this episode was causing our friends at News Corp. Such a target-rich environment! They can blame me for the tariffs, or Kevin Rudd, or Anthony Albanese. Surely they can work out a formula where it's the fault of all three — but never, ever the fault of Donald Trump!”

Well worth a read!

“If You Want To Fight The Machine, Don't Move To The Right”

by Caitlin Johnson in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack

“Right wing ‘populism’ has been allowed to flourish by the very power structures its proponents purport to oppose, while the authentic left has been systematically dismantled by generations of aggressive imperial operations”

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/if-you-want-to-fight-the-machine?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

Another example that Murdoch press is just #unethical and #evil.

"News Corp staff tried to provoke workers at a Middle Eastern restaurant into making prejudicial comments.

The confrontation in the #Newtown restaurant was described this week by Asio’s director general, Mike Burgess, as “mind-blowingly stupid”.

News Corp tracked down the source of the leak to Crikey that the operation was known internally as “#undercoverjew” and he was asked to resign"

#wtf
#murdoch
#leak
#Newscorp

The NY Post isn't entirely a cheer squad.

"Commercial flights diverted as Chinese warships undertake apparent live-fire drill in sea between Australia and New Zealand"

#Putin must have told Xi that Trump will not rescue #Australia or #Taiwan if Chinese invades them. That's why they have the audacity to conduct live fire exercises there on short notice.

Of course, the far-right, #Murdoch-supported opposition party #LNP blamed it on Labor.

#LiberalNationalParty

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/21/commercial-flights-diverted-as-chinese-warships-undertake-apparent-live-fire-drill-in-sea-between-australia-and-new-zealand