‘It’s making my eyes bleed’: News Corp's Knewz on the nose | Weekly Beast

New site’s design attracts howls of derision. Plus outrage at Herald Sun’s ‘Chinese virus’ front page

Rupert Murdoch’s lieutenant Robert Thomson unleashed a grand global news project on Wednesday with the corny name of Knewz.com.

“We live in a world of vexatious verticals, of crass clickbait, of polarised perspectives and fallacious, fact-free feeds – Knewz is knowing and needed,” the publisher of the Australian and the Daily Telegraph said without a hint of irony.

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