August 9, 2013
The real political battle is not over economic policy. It is between the old News Ltd---now News Corp Australia--- and Rudd Labor. To put it crudely Murdoch wants to destroy the Labor Government to protect his commercial Foxtel interests and the influence of his declining newspapers.
David Rowe
Thursday’s Daily Telegraph, for instance, depicted the prime minister and deputy prime minister as bumbling Nazis from Hogan’s Heroes, and the front page of Monday’s Daily Telegraph told voters to “kick this mob [Kevin Rudd’s government] out”. “Send in the clown” was how page 1 of how Brisbane’s Courier-Mail reported Peter Beattie’s recruitment as a Labor candidate on August 9. It appears that the newspaper editors of the Daily Telegraph and Courier-Mail are working under orders from New York during the election.
The confrontational, populist and biased coverage of the election has made News Corp Australia an election issue in that it draws more attention to Murdoch's motives and agenda.
This is especially so in the light of the executive disunity and News Corp's back to the future direction.
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"Murdoch wants to destroy the Labor Government to protect his commercial interests (Foxtel) and his declining newspapers."
An open, wholesale, fibre-to-the-premises NBN – the Labor version – would undermine the Foxtel business model by allowing new traditional-type pay TV providers and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) to compete on an even playing field in the pay TV marketplace.