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This is not true at all. News Corp owns 7 of the 12 major daily papers and sells close to 70% of all the newspapers sold in Australia. Murdoch is known to keep
by satori99 12y ago
This is not true at all. News Corp owns 7 of the 12 major daily papers and sells close to 70% of all the newspapers sold in Australia. Murdoch is known to keep a close editorial eye on the Australian market, paticularly The Australian, his pet loss-making broadsheet.
- Tloewald 12y agoThanks for the info (I've been out of Australia for ten years). The fact remains that Australia still has quite a few solid independent papers (the SMH and Age) and two real public broadcasters (ABC and SBS). Even though Murdoch doesn't own as large a proportion of the US market, I think his effect on the media here is actually worse than I ever found it to be in Australia (mainly owing to Fox News and the awfulness of its alternatives).
- satori99 12y agoFairfax isn't too bad here, but it's getting worse. They are shedding journalists and photographers at an alarming rate. Their online offereings are becoming more click-baity every week. The ABC and SBS have both had their funding slashed and are in the middle of a poltical ideology shitstorm, with many serious people (MP's & senators from the coalition) calling for a complete governace overhaul or even selling off both of them. Recently the ABC won a coveted license to be able to provide an english langauge news service inside China. The incoming goverment scrapped it completely because they don't like it's perceived anti-conservative bias.