Greens leader Bob Brown has accused The Australian of trying to wreck the alliance between the Greens and Labor. We wear Senator Brown's criticism with pride. We believe he and his Green colleagues are hypocrites; that they are bad for the nation; and that they should be destroyed at the ballot box.But of course they would say that, political interference is business as usual for Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the media juggernaut that owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June.No sense of irony in the following
A News Corp. spokesman told The Upshot that the the corporation "has always believed in the power of free markets.."A million bucks a lot of free market.
Christopher J Sichok, from the Murdoch University (not related), agrees;
These corporations have transformed speech from political persuasion (which it was before the entertainment-based "information age") into profit, or at least private gain, thus eroding the spirit of the First Amendment.
