Much of the influence of these voices upon parliamentarians occurs outwith public hearing, yet these various voices-to-parliament also work closely with their accompanying megaphones-to-public, enjoying the luxury of shaping public discourse every day on almost every matter they care to focus on (including, of course, this very referendum - which, in the hypothetical absence of #Murdoch media, would undoubtedly be on course to comfortable affirmation, rather than its current trajectory towards rejection).

And whatever may be theoretically the case constitutionally or legally, practically, in terms of the exercise of functional political power, #Westminster parliamentary systems have shown precious little ability to abolish or even effectively regulate such voices (not least because one major political party was founded to be the vehicle for these very voices).

#Indigenous #VoiceToParliament

One of the complaints levelled against the Indigenous #VoiceToParliament is that the proposed #Voice will institutionalise unequal access to parliamentary attention, with some people having more avenues to exercise influence than others.

This has typically struck me as either somewhat clueless or (sometimes) in bad faith.

The fact is that there already exist a number of institutionally-enshrined "voices" creating wildly unequal access to parliament and executive government. The last week's focus from the federal Opposition in parliament has been highlighting how frequently the voice of #Qantas gets heeded, for instance. Whereas when it comes to, say, the #MineralsCouncilAustralia or Rupert #Murdoch, not only can they get a minister's ear more or less whenever they like, but their approval or disapproval often makes or breaks party leaders.

Donald #Trump Is Extremely Touchy About Voters Saying He Is Not “Mentally Up for the Job” of Being President

He insists he would beat Rupert #Murdoch, Joe #Biden, and the heads of the Wall Street Journal at a mental “acuity test.”

"So typical of the #malignant #narcissist to inflate their intelligence"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/donald-trump-mentally-up-for-the-job-of-president

People say it’s easy for #nazi and #populist politicians to gain the support of the people but it’s not. It’s has taken a lot of hard work over many years by a dedicated team. Special shout out to #murdoch for tirelessly scaremongering for many decades, #BBCnews for endlessly parroting right wing talking points and generations of politicians of all hues for passing the buck for their own corruption and failure onto the same old easy targets. Don’t sell them short, they’ve worked hard for this.

From the effing (#Murdoch owned) #WSJ December 2020:

“Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr.’ before your name? ‘Dr. Jill Biden’ sounds & feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic.

(🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻beyond condescending #patronizing)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380

Anti-science people are trying to censor and get "fact checking" completely deleted from australian media, namely murdoch and co.

#factcheck #australia #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #petition #getup #science #criticalthinking #murdoch

https://getup.to/AYqzJEfV1JCZ4oiy

Fox "News" finally caves to pressure from the US Marine Corps.
"The now unpublished story has been addressed internally and we sincerely apologize to the Gee family,"
But not to the real target of the smear, the Biden administration.
https://theweek.com/fox-news/1026098/fox-news-apologizes-gold-star-family-false-story
#Fox #Misinformation #Propaganda #Murdoch

@MAD_democracy @HaroldFeld

"They point to the settlement in the #Dominion defamation case, where #Fox Corp... acknowledged... that they had made false statements about the outcome of the #2020election... and the role of Dominion Voting System machines in supposedly “stealing” the election....

This conduct, they argue, violates the Commission’s #Character Policy — making Fox Corp and #Murdoch inherently unfit to act as a broadcast licensee."
https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/my-insanely-long-field-guide-to-the-fox29-philadelphia-wtfx-tv-license-renewal-challenge/

#FCC #FoxNews #Lies #News

I'm not linking to the #Murdoch hate-piece because (a) it's a hate-piece (b) it's paywall, and (c) the *Australian* is a hate-filled, climate-change denying, reactionary disgrace to the entire Southern Hemisphere.

The two polar opposites in Australian #media - Rupert #Murdoch's right wing *The Australian* and *Guardian Australia*. How differently they report the same story on Stan Grant, who recently had to bear the brunt of "grotesque racist abuse" following his reporting of 'the coronation'.

Murdoch's rags are constantly trying to dig up dirt and smear the names of the people they perceive as enemies. So predictable and so disgusting.
#racism #IstandwithStan #australia

@parismarx
Truthfully, saying the #media has failed us, is fucking nonsense, since it implies that's a new thing.

It isn't. And the sooner the #world holds #Trump's unindicted co conspirators, the fucking #Murdoch family, to account, the sooner we'll see the light side of this shit show called #News #Corpse and their co conspirators..

Fuck them all.

@parismarx #Trump was a monster created by #Murdoch for the NY Post in 1976. #Trump craved attention, Murdoch needed "sensation". Trump married Ivana in 1977. She gave him "class" and "social status". He failed at that, too.

Here's a little #Trump history...
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case

Trump’s plan to 'undermine' GOP debate is about 'double-cucking Fox'

"'Maybe they should have been loyal,' Trump has privately sniped — about Fox, and Rupert Murdoch, specifically — earlier this month, suggesting that the Murdochs and Fox News executives forgot that their viewers are Trump devotees, according to one of the people with direct knowledge," the correspondents write.

#debate #fox #murdoch

https://www.alternet.org/trump-debate-double-cucking-fox/

@tod #Australia are you watching this? Are you aware of this #climatechange disaster in #Canada? I have a feeling this won't get a whole lot of coverage in the #Murdoch press.

#climateemergency

@GottaLaff
I'm a little surprised that people aren't remembering that the #Murdoch's are also part of the #unindicted co conspirators.

Let's face it without Fox News the whole process would have been a lot harder.

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Rupert Murdoch Is Now Dating a Russian Scientist, and I'm Dying to See How This One Ends https://jezebel.com/rupert-murdoch-dating-elena-zhukova-1850744287 #Jezebel #americanwomeninbusiness #wendidengmurdoch #stavrosniarchos #alexanderzhukov #romanabramovich #annlesleysmith #philippebriand #rupertmurdoch #murdochfamily #jackiekennedy #elenazhukova #georgyzhukov #newyorkpost #gracekelly #wendideng #jerryhall #murdoch #lachlan #myspace #rainier #sarah

#Murdoch #seweragecompany send #helicopter #auspol #ukpol

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/15/australian-newspaper-sends-helicopter-to-spy-on-lionesses-during-training?CMP=share_btn_tw

The columnists on #Murdoch's reactionary #climatechange denying *The Australian* are *literally* insisting that they'd rather see the end of the world than the end of #capitalism

You couldn't make it up.

#australia #climateemergency #media #journalism

When I was uni no one knew or cared if you were Jewish. Now with Israel and the Israel protection society that allows them to create an apartheid people are noticing and it is terrible.
Also if you are going to let #Murdoch go after blacks/muslims and Chinese eventually their nutty readers are going to go after Jews.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/students-face-antisemitism-at-university-7-30/102726396

You know we're in deep, deep shit when #Murdoch's The Australian prints glowing praise of a federal #Labor resources minister.

#AusPol #ALP #Mining #Gas #Lng #coal