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Who's afraid of Rupert Murdoch? The end of an era.
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If enough people keep up the narrative about Murdoch paying no tax, his papers’ (utterly undeserved) image as the friend of Aussie workers will take a real beating.
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I dislike that you've called it a narrative, even if I know what you mean.
'Narrative' suggests that it's spun. It's truth; Newscorp doesn't pay taxes here. Newscorp gets money from the government, they don't give it.
Reality should never be considered a narrative.
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Yes, it's absolutely the truth.
Probably more a reflection of how the word "narrative" has been debased.
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About time
Enough of this cancer on democracy
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Passengers will see two bespoke bulletins a day from the national broadcaster. Plus: Aunty’s stars party at Ultimo
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SMH reporting Murdoch told Jerry Hall their marriage was over by email.
Classy guy.
Classy guy.
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Oh thank Christ.About time
Enough of this cancer on democracy
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Surely she married him for the money.
I'm struggling to think of many similarities between him and Mick Jagger, realistically how could you be romantically attracted to both?!
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Catholic tastes in men.
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The demographic he appeals to are slowly dying off, and not being replaced by the next generation. Long term Newscorpse will be just that.
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Good times.
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******* hope so, but I won't be holding my breath.
They're cockroaches. Just as soon as you think you've got rid of them, you see a few a week later.
The only people left who buy the Herald Sun aren't even bothering to read the stories at all any more. They just flick through the pictures to the sport/racing section or whatever liftout.
Even Andrew Bolt's columns have disappeared from the public arena. Nobody any longer cares or reads it enough to bother having the regular uproar over the stupidity of it.
That's the problem with their race to the bottom. They've now reached the bottom and it's keep digging or give up. There is no "dig-up".
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I’ll just park this here.
the sucker bait numbers seem 2 b dwindling.
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I’ll just park this here.
More than half those numbers are just watching for the lols, Ruprecht will die soon and so will his little fascy empire.
The real issue then becomes, what takes its place?
His even more faschy sprog
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Fox News
Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company Dominion
Adam Gabbatt in New York
@adamgabbatt
Mon 4 Jul 2022 17.30 AEST
In the months following the 2020 US presidential election, rightwing TV news in America was a wild west, an apparently lawless free-for-all where conspiracy theories about voting machines, ballot-stuffed suitcases and dead Venezuelan leaders were repeated to viewers around the clock.
There seemed to be little consequence for peddling the most outrageous ideas on primetime.
But now, unfortunately for Fox News, One America News Network (OAN), and Newsmax, it turns out that this brave, new world wasn’t free from legal jurisdiction – with the three networks now facing billion-dollar lawsuits as a result of their baseless accusations.
Group aims to strip Fox News of ad revenue over ‘fueling next insurrection’
Read more
In June, Dominion Voting Systems, which provided voting machines to 28 states, was given the go-ahead to sue Fox Corp, the parent company of Fox News, in a case that could draw Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan, into the spotlight.
In the $1.6bn lawsuit, Dominion accuses Fox Corp, and the Murdochs specifically, of allowing Fox News to amplify false claims that the voting company had rigged the election for Joe Biden.
Fox Corp had attempted to have the suit dismissed, but a Delaware judge said Dominion had shown adequate evidence for the suit to proceed. Dominion is already suing Fox News, as well as OAN and Newsmax.
“These allegations support a reasonable inference that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch either knew Dominion had not manipulated the election or at least recklessly disregarded the truth when they allegedly caused Fox News to propagate its claims about Dominion,” Judge Eric Davis said.
Davis’s ruling is not a guarantee that Fox will be found liable. But the judge made it clear that this isn’t some frivolous attempt by Dominion – and media and legal experts think Fox could be in real trouble.
“Dominion has a very strong case against Fox News – and against OAN for that matter,” said Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a professor who teaches constitutional law at Stetson University and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute.
“The reason Dominion is suing is because Fox and other rightwing news outlets repeated vicious lies that Dominion’s voting machines stole the 2020 election from Trump for Biden. But all of these conspiracy theories about Dominion’s machines were just pure bunk, and Fox as a news organization should have known that and not given this aspect of the big lie a megaphone.”
“What’s particularly bad for Fox is [that] Dominion asked them to stop and correct the record in real time, and Fox persisted in spreading misrepresentations about the voting machine company.”
Indeed, in his ruling, Davis noted that “other newspapers under Rupert Murdoch’s control, including the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, condemned President Trump’s claims and urged him to concede defeat”.
In a statement, a Fox News spokesperson said: “Limiting the ability of the press to report freely on the American election process stands in stark contrast to the liberties on which this nation was founded, and we are confident we will prevail in this case, as the first amendment is the foundation of our democracy and freedom of the press must be protected.”
A potential precedent in the Dominion v Fox case could be found in a recent case involving Sarah Palin, who sued the New York Times. Palin claimed the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. In February a jury sided with the Times, finding that a Times employee had not acted with “actual malice” against a public figure or with “reckless disregard” for the truth – the criteria necessary to prove defamation.
But the Times victory shouldn’t give Fox too much hope, said Torres-Spelliscy.
“In the Palin case, the New York Times quickly corrected the mistake about Palin that had been added while an article was edited,” Torres-Spelliscy said.
“By contrast Fox News kept up the bad behavior and repeatedly told myths about Dominion’s voting machines. This is likely why judges in several of these Dominion defamation cases have not dismissed them.”
Dominion isn’t the only company seeking damages from Fox and its contemporaries.
Smartmatic, an election software company which provided voting software to precisely one county in the 2020 election but found itself subjected to claims that it was founded “for the specific purpose of fixing elections” by associates of Hugo Chavez, the former president of Venezuela who died in 2013, is suing Fox Corp, Fox News and associates for $2.7bn.
Still, Fox News is the most-watched and arguably most influential cable news channel in the US, and is probably too big to fail.
But that isn’t the case for the smaller rightwing networks OAN and Newsmax, which are also both being sued by Dominion and Smartmatic – in June, a Delaware judge refused Newsmax’s motion to have the Dominion case dismissed, but did not weigh on whether Newsmax was innocent or guilty.
“I think OAN is going to be wiped out from the litigation costs. Forget about any judgment,” said Angelo Carusone, president and chief executive of Media Matters for America, which monitors rightwing media.
Carusone pointed out that OAN is already struggling to survive, after it was dropped by the DirecTV cable company – which was reportedlyresponsible for 90% of OAN’s revenue – in April.
“We’ve started seeing, already, them scaling back programming, they’ve been laying off staff, they’ve been cutting back the number of programs. So it’s pretty clear that they don’t have sufficient resources to weather a protracted litigation.”
Newsmax, which is still carried by DirecTV, is “relatively cash flush” in comparison to OAN, Carusone said – enough to survive a trial, if not to pay the billions of dollars Dominion and Smartmatic are seeking.>>>
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Fox and friends confront billion-dollar US lawsuits over election fraud claims
Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company Dominion
Adam Gabbatt in New York
@adamgabbatt
Mon 4 Jul 2022 17.30 AEST
In the months following the 2020 US presidential election, rightwing TV news in America was a wild west, an apparently lawless free-for-all where conspiracy theories about voting machines, ballot-stuffed suitcases and dead Venezuelan leaders were repeated to viewers around the clock.
There seemed to be little consequence for peddling the most outrageous ideas on primetime.
But now, unfortunately for Fox News, One America News Network (OAN), and Newsmax, it turns out that this brave, new world wasn’t free from legal jurisdiction – with the three networks now facing billion-dollar lawsuits as a result of their baseless accusations.
Group aims to strip Fox News of ad revenue over ‘fueling next insurrection’
Read more
In June, Dominion Voting Systems, which provided voting machines to 28 states, was given the go-ahead to sue Fox Corp, the parent company of Fox News, in a case that could draw Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan, into the spotlight.
In the $1.6bn lawsuit, Dominion accuses Fox Corp, and the Murdochs specifically, of allowing Fox News to amplify false claims that the voting company had rigged the election for Joe Biden.
Fox Corp had attempted to have the suit dismissed, but a Delaware judge said Dominion had shown adequate evidence for the suit to proceed. Dominion is already suing Fox News, as well as OAN and Newsmax.
“These allegations support a reasonable inference that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch either knew Dominion had not manipulated the election or at least recklessly disregarded the truth when they allegedly caused Fox News to propagate its claims about Dominion,” Judge Eric Davis said.
Davis’s ruling is not a guarantee that Fox will be found liable. But the judge made it clear that this isn’t some frivolous attempt by Dominion – and media and legal experts think Fox could be in real trouble.
“Dominion has a very strong case against Fox News – and against OAN for that matter,” said Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a professor who teaches constitutional law at Stetson University and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute.
“The reason Dominion is suing is because Fox and other rightwing news outlets repeated vicious lies that Dominion’s voting machines stole the 2020 election from Trump for Biden. But all of these conspiracy theories about Dominion’s machines were just pure bunk, and Fox as a news organization should have known that and not given this aspect of the big lie a megaphone.”
“What’s particularly bad for Fox is [that] Dominion asked them to stop and correct the record in real time, and Fox persisted in spreading misrepresentations about the voting machine company.”
Indeed, in his ruling, Davis noted that “other newspapers under Rupert Murdoch’s control, including the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, condemned President Trump’s claims and urged him to concede defeat”.
In a statement, a Fox News spokesperson said: “Limiting the ability of the press to report freely on the American election process stands in stark contrast to the liberties on which this nation was founded, and we are confident we will prevail in this case, as the first amendment is the foundation of our democracy and freedom of the press must be protected.”
A potential precedent in the Dominion v Fox case could be found in a recent case involving Sarah Palin, who sued the New York Times. Palin claimed the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting. In February a jury sided with the Times, finding that a Times employee had not acted with “actual malice” against a public figure or with “reckless disregard” for the truth – the criteria necessary to prove defamation.
But the Times victory shouldn’t give Fox too much hope, said Torres-Spelliscy.
“In the Palin case, the New York Times quickly corrected the mistake about Palin that had been added while an article was edited,” Torres-Spelliscy said.
“By contrast Fox News kept up the bad behavior and repeatedly told myths about Dominion’s voting machines. This is likely why judges in several of these Dominion defamation cases have not dismissed them.”
Dominion isn’t the only company seeking damages from Fox and its contemporaries.
Smartmatic, an election software company which provided voting software to precisely one county in the 2020 election but found itself subjected to claims that it was founded “for the specific purpose of fixing elections” by associates of Hugo Chavez, the former president of Venezuela who died in 2013, is suing Fox Corp, Fox News and associates for $2.7bn.
Still, Fox News is the most-watched and arguably most influential cable news channel in the US, and is probably too big to fail.
But that isn’t the case for the smaller rightwing networks OAN and Newsmax, which are also both being sued by Dominion and Smartmatic – in June, a Delaware judge refused Newsmax’s motion to have the Dominion case dismissed, but did not weigh on whether Newsmax was innocent or guilty.
“I think OAN is going to be wiped out from the litigation costs. Forget about any judgment,” said Angelo Carusone, president and chief executive of Media Matters for America, which monitors rightwing media.
Carusone pointed out that OAN is already struggling to survive, after it was dropped by the DirecTV cable company – which was reportedlyresponsible for 90% of OAN’s revenue – in April.
“We’ve started seeing, already, them scaling back programming, they’ve been laying off staff, they’ve been cutting back the number of programs. So it’s pretty clear that they don’t have sufficient resources to weather a protracted litigation.”
Newsmax, which is still carried by DirecTV, is “relatively cash flush” in comparison to OAN, Carusone said – enough to survive a trial, if not to pay the billions of dollars Dominion and Smartmatic are seeking.>>>
Fox and friends confront billion-dollar US lawsuits over election fraud claims
Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company Dominion
I resisted for as long as I could. But lockdown got me on a weak moment. Everytime I use Kayo I feel a little dirty
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Sprog will get pushed aside for even more radical psychos.
America is burnt toast
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