Conservative former Australian PM: Murdoch news outlets are "contributing to death and disease"

[TheBlackAdder]

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Here's a snippet of the questions asked, and you'll need to see the reaction to them.

MEHDI HASAN (HOST): Much of the embrace of conspiracism and authoritarianism is among right-wing people watching right-wing media outlets, especially Murdoch outlets across the globe, and especially Fox News here in the United States. You and former fellow Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is on the left — and who was also on this show a few weeks ago — you’ve joined together to demand the Murdoch media empire in Australia be held to account. I know you’ve known Rupert Murdoch since 1974, I believe. How powerful, how influential do you think he is as an actor, both in Australia and globally?

MALCOLM TURNBULL (FORMER AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER): Well, he has the biggest megaphone in the English-speaking world — certainly you know, leaving out of India out of it, I guess — certainly by far the biggest megaphone in the United States, in the UK, Australia. And you know, historically, Murdoch’s media more often than not leaned to the right, but it was still reality-based. But it has now become a vehicle for propaganda. And so, there are no limits now.

And this is why you see conspiracy theories being, you know, promoted and advanced on Fox News, and extraordinary lies — and dangerous lies. You see, there used to be a view, Mehdi, that in the marketplace of ideas, you know, everyone would say whatever they like, crazy or non-crazy, but the truth would prevail. But we are in fact drowning in lies. And the threat to liberal democracy is real, because you have — as you can see in the United States — a majority of Republican voters who believe that Joe Biden stole the election. And this is just — it is completely untrue. I mean, it’s one thing for people to believe that Elvis is still alive, right? That’s crazy, but it’s perhaps not consequential. But what you have here is a lie, with devastating consequences.

HASAN: You mentioned dangerous, you mentioned devastating. So let me just ask you straight up. Do you believe Fox and the Murdochs, by creating what you’ve called in the past a “market for crazy,” by pushing not just election lies and white supremacist propaganda — but also anti-mask, anti-vaccine conspiracies — do they have blood on their hands?


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[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

[pscot]

3. Send the Murdochs back to Australia

K&R

[Hoyt]

4. Yes they are. But the dang rubes who listen to that crud are the real problem.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. K&R

[Beakybird]

6. K&R

[monkeyman1]

7. this is funny .

I'm sit'n here tonight & thinking about how TFG support'rs sitting in the jail cell's all over in that 8x 10 & for what ! 90% pleading guilty ! TFG not going pay their bail or help them out . shit ,they can't get past the front gate ! they now have a nice federal criminal to dog them . good luck on job's . credit report is going to be in the crapper. that nice shiny new truck & house ya want - gone ! fire arm's -ya rite ! by the way , FOR WHAT ? over half a million people dead because the republican party (aka) cartel that want's power & fucking money ! now they say get the because it's wiping out their damn voter's ! this party of rocket scientists is truly amazing !
now that c-19 shit hitting fan people are finally thinking maybe i might need to get the vaccination , about a yr. fucking later & lot of family's losing love one's , because it's a hoax ! who engineered this one ? I - wonder ??????

need ' to vent ------- stay safe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!