A left leaning look at the world with Media and Political commentator, Paul… The Other One Barlow.
The merger of Newshub and Stuff for broadcast news may upset some people unhappy with the service one or both currently provide, but it could have been a lot worse if rumours of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp stepping in had been true - because no other news organisation has a history of stoking division, blaming minorities and starting culture war bullshit the likes we only see pale imitations of here, quite like News Corp.
References:
https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/how-news-corp-polarised-australian-media/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/the-dirty-truth-about-all-the-murdochs-scandals
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/murdoch-family-investigation.html
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/rupert-lachlan-murdoch-australia-empire-rudd-turnbull-fox-dominion/
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