to it as a branding exercise. As a very rough guide to the electoral politics of the cut, a News Limited poll found ...

The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2012-05-03 11:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and News Limited would suggest so, fuelled further by the recent headlines that Hancock Prospecting has ...

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by Fox News creator Roger Ailes, and in Australia, by the swashbuckling head of News Limited, John ... was pronounced chair not of News Limited, but of Channel Ten. Even without Australia’s cross-media ownership ... was appointed director of News Limited in Australia. A frequent newsroom presence in those years, Lachlan ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

mistreated in eleven Indonesian abattoirs. The wave of revulsion that followed – the inundation of the news ... a “that’s not allowed” but “that’s okay.” We have our limits and our permissions. But the categories ...

The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-03-13 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

were in bed with News Limited newspapers. Even my own friendship with the prime minister had been put ... certain members of the NSW right were in bed with News Limited newspapers. Even my own friendship ... became public on ABC News. Just two words lit up: “It’s over.” I didn’t believe it. To be sure, ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

in collaboration with News Limited, destroyed the credibility of a Prime Minister who had the temerity to float ... inquiry reports, it is certain that there will be no recommendation requiring News Limited to relinquish ... on a limited number of politically biased sources of news and analysis. Many of the newspapers will remain ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

of Murdoch’s own money plus about $30 million of News Limited’s cash has gone into neocon Bill Kristol’s ... ever since. It’s been a long, colourful and often whacky ride, not least for News Corporation. ... was and still is a frustrated politician,” wrote John Menadue, who served both Whitlam and the News chief. “He ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

in the atmosphere, and our emissions do not limit their effects to the locality in which they are emitted. ... of News ...

The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

personal stories leaked to the Daily Telegraph (after mounting a legal fight, News Limited offered him ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to news of the Eastern Bloc, has been well reported. The records of a seminar held in 2000 to commemorate ... that gives headquarters limited access to their membership lists. The arrangement is so restrictive ... Wales. “If by doing that it limits our growth so we can’t become a governing party I’ll accept that, ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

decide to write a long letter to John Hartigan, Chairman and Chief Executive of News Limited. I make ... to Hartigan arrives, ostensibly written by the Corporate Affairs Manager at News Limited, Greg Baxter. ... (News Limited, The Australian newspaper) ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-10-05 13:58 - 25 comments - 0 attachments

With the powerful and pervasive backing of News Limited’s financially flush media outlets, the neoliberal extreme ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of the present time. Murdoch’s importance rests in his responsibility for injecting, through Fox News, the poison ... Angeles Times as being in favour of certain extremely limited restrictions on internet anonymity. ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

with the Wall Street Journal , the New York Post and, above all else, the immensely influential Fox News ... world. News Corp also provides this kind of anti-science irrationalism with a kind of faux-respectability ... ultimately be “limits to growth”. They are the kind of people who had vigorously and sometimes successfully ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-12-12 10:46 - 31 comments - 0 attachments

takes it up to the government,' News Limited CEO John Hartigan told the ABC's 7.30 late ... (John Hartigan, News Limited, The Australian newspaper, Inside Story) ... Defending News in Australia "Beware ...

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of the state-wide and national newspaper market by a single corporation, News Limited, posed a threat to the health ... The right was only granted after I had informed the Chairman of News Limited that I intended to take ... only two main conclusions in my recently published study of the Australian , “Bad News ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-11-29 13:39 - 4 comments - 3 attachments

(Laura Tingle, News Corporation, News Limited, Phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch, Australian ... Laura Tingle: Murdoch finds bad news travels fast "And now the minority government that his Australian arm has systematically tried ...

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(Andrew Bolt, News Limited) ... Bolt an opportunist keen on Fox News, says writer ' - Karl Quinn, the Age , October 5 The recent Federal Court finding against Andrew Bolt condemns the News Ltd columnist in no uncertain ...

Blog - Monthly Wire - 2011-10-06 15:10 - 63 comments - 0 attachments

and for now, outside a spot in the Fox News line-up, it is hard to imagine what she might make of herself. ... to limit or pacify the numbers of frightened, angry and alienated citizens they need for political ... a free run on Fox News. And they were not feeding on the despair, poverty and ignorance to which great ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-12-01 15:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

readers: “I was considering resigning as a News Limited columnist.” The reason? “I thought this company ... contacted News Limited Chairman and CEO John Hartigan, thus setting in train the events that led to Bolt’s strike. Bolt’s response was remarkable. He accused his employer, News Limited, of “an overreaction” ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

with storytelling technique from the outer limits” and that “dazzling time-lapse photography of the night sky ... at the corner and after some discussion through the window, jumped in. The big news was their friend Kia had ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-15 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Drinkers Register, curbed its bottle shop opening hours, banned 4 and 5 litre wine casks, and limited ... to the liquor commission – all of them dismissed – Severin at one point offered to limit sales to one 4 litre ... countries that reveal an increase in price significantly limits alcohol abuse. But the question remains, ...

The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2011-10-10 13:54 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

increasingly violent and degrading. Tyler quotes an editor of Adult Video News (the main American trade ... far more pervasively and subtly than the law, they set limits on our behaviour.” Pornography has ...

The Monthly - Cordelia Fine - 2011-09-19 11:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Australian Politics, Bob Brown, News Limited, New Matilda) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments

I hope the news that Noam Chomsky has appealed to Hugo Chávez on behalf of the detained Venezuelan judge María Lourdes Afiuni might give Nick Dyrenfurth ... Chomsky has a case. Are “fair-minded observers” of the Middle East really limited to those who call ...

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