Published: May 10, 2019
Reaction to a savage attack on Labor leader Bill Shorten suggests something may be changing in News Corp’s Australian newspapers
There is nothing new about attacks on News Corp’s influence on policy and politics in Australia. There is nothing new about claims that Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers are not just right wing, but distort and manufacture news, campaigning for favoured political parties without the obligation of fairness. There is nothing new about concern over the impact the company, which controls 70% of the country’s newspaper circulation, might have on democratic debate.
But this old story has a new twist as Australia prepares for an election, a hint that something is changing.
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