This is the day that Rupert Murdoch, American citizen, has been working on since he and his organisation fell out with Kevin Rudd with this story "Captain Chaos and the workings of inner circle" seven months into his Prime Ministership.
Over the next six years of largely progressive government we have seen a propaganda campaign by Newslimited that has included two coup attempts and most recently, in it's new guise as Newscorp, a blatant fraud on the public via a dominating one sided pitch, by all newspapers in the stable and elsewhere, that has successfully brought about an illegitimate Abbott government.
It is no accident that Tony Abbott and his more obvious rival, Malcolm Turnbull, are both ex-employees of Rupert Murdoch. Certainly, they are there to do his masters bidding with all the help of a PR department, almost the size of that expected, in a totalitarian regime.
Unbiased and factual Information is critical to any democracy. Australia, except for small snippets of truth, no longer has that readily available.
Great article Joe. I have retweeted it and emailed it to contacts including ALP.
ReplyDeleteWe are all wasting our time until genuine reform is accomplished to ensure that full and accurate information is available to voters on which they can make informed political decisions.
We are currently the victims of propaganda aimed at bolstering the fortunes and power of the wealthiest in our society at the expense of the reat of us.