When trying to work out where your money all went...

...it might help to look at the people who now have all the money.🤔

#Meme #Humour #Funny #Economics #Politics #Disinfo #Murdoch #Fox #theSun #NewsCorp #Social #Media

Michael West opinion piece on the role of NewsCorp in Brexit & its influence on Australian politics

“the corporate media – in the face of rising social & independent media – has become ..ever more ready to propound the lies & misinformation. The billions in funding promised for the NHS has not materialised, the benefits from tax cuts have not materialised, and the Brits now face austerity measures.”

#media #auspol #NewsCorp
https://michaelwest.com.au/brexit-britains-political-tragedy-poses-a-dire-warning-for-australia/

@alexperry

No no, wrong way around! Next we want #ElonMusk to buy #NewsCorp & 'revolutionize' them in to dust too no? bye bye #FoxNews, #TheSun etc 😂 .

Picking up some notes on the #publishing industry grown from this thread: https://rage.love/@noyovo/106692014498963743

The "Big Four" companies of english-language mainstream book publishing are

• #Penguin #RandomHouse LLC (owned by german mega-corporation #Bertelsmann), which is currently absorbing Simon & Schuster (formerly one of the "Big Five")
• #HarperCollins (owned by rupert murdoch's #NewsCorp)
• #Hachette, a french mega-corporation (owned by #Lagardère)
• #Macmillan Publishers (owned by another german multinational, #Holtzbrinck)

Not only is each of these owned by a larger international media mega-corporation as mentioned above, but each has many (dozens or hundreds) of divisions & "imprints" which sell products under different names so it looks like it's published by a different company. Many of the divisions are smaller companies that were bought by the expanding giants but allowed to keep operating under their more well-known name.

& of course, while together they dominate english-language publishing, many have divisions which focus on other languages or are part of larger corporations which own other publishers.

An honest explainer! #Australia #Media #NewsCorp #Google #Facebook