“The Murdoch press are an absolute disgrace, they are a threat to democracy"

Down Under:



“The Murdoch press are an absolute disgrace, they are a threat to democracy in this country and we should absolutely be having a look at them.

“They run unsubstantiated stories. I’m saying it’s a fabrication. They run unsubstantiated stories in relation to the leadership of the party”….

“We should not be diverted by the Murdoch press and their attempt to destabilise this government. This is a good government. It doesn’t suit Rupert Murdoch and his minions and we are prepared to take that on.

“Day in and day out the Murdoch press are putting false headlines out there. They are misrepresenting the position of the government. Day in and day out it’s absolute lies and nonsense that is getting printed in the Murdoch press, and that’s the issue.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-03/cameron-launches-attack-on-news-ltd/3616902

dividing nations with lies and deception. They also have wire-tapped folks and colluded with law enforcement. Murdoch's press needs to be shut down or banned.

In every single country he has media in? It's highly dangerous. Freedom of speech is not the same as mass manipulation of a society. It carries the ability to destroy the very democracy that we were founded upon.

be called out for what they are ...

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“The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of a press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957

British writer, essayist, playwright and translator.

“The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of a press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957

British writer, essayist, playwright and translator.