[clear] In Australia, there has been a fierce debate over media reporting of climate change, particularly by the Murdoch media empire. In a recent interview in 2014 with Sky News, Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive officer of News Corporation and 21st Century Fox, maintained: ‘We should approach climate change with great scepticism.’ He commented: Climate […]
#murdochmafia climate change denial: @ekidna1 and @DrRimmer on countering @rupertmurdoch propaganda
August 17, 2014
Filed Under: #auspol, Climate Change, Environment, Front Page, MSM, News Limited Tagged With: 21st Century Fox, Astroturfing, climate change, Climate Denial, Concentration of media ownership, Fourth Estate, Gillard Government, Greg Combet, Herald Sun, Journalism, Julian Disney, Media, News Corporation, News Limited, News Ltd, Piers Akerman, Robert Manne, Rupert Murdoch, Sky News, The Australian, The Conversation, The Daily Telegraph, University of Canberra
A Murdoch-free household is a galaxy too far: @burgewords #CreatingWaves on #NewsCorp
July 12, 2014
NEWS sites are getting harder to access for free of late. Paywalls are up and apparently profitable for News Corp and Fairfax. Crikey had one for years and recently Wendy Harmer’s flagship site The Hoopla shut the gate on free reads with its 34 cent per day subscription. Media-hungry online consumers are faced with a choice about […]
Filed Under: #auspol, #CreatingWaves, Citizen Journalists, Creating Waves, Fairfax, Front Page, Michael Burge, News Limited, NoFibs, Queensland, Social Media, The Arts Tagged With: 21st Century Fox, C.S. Lewis, Crikey, Donna Hay, Fairfax, HarperCollins, J.R.R. Tolkien, Janet Frame, News Corp, News Limited, Paywalls, Rupert Murdoch, Star Wars, The Hoopla, Wendy Harmer