The former Prime Minister of Australia said politicians are frightened of him:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2021/feb/19/australian-politicians-frightened-murdoch-media-beast-kevin-rudd-video

JD Vance recently flew across the United States to meet him in his mansion:

https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-montana-visits-rupert-lachlan-murdoch-d4f040113968ea5d702061cac6129ee4

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[+] 144 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Not just media - he directly has a hand in shaping governmental policy.

    By his own admission, that's why he dislikes the EU so much - they don't pay enough attention to him.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, that niche is filled by axel springer, instead of just being empty

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Boycott...

    Fox News

    The New York Post

    The Sun

    The Times

    The Sunday Times

    Sky News

    The Wall Street Journal

    Comedy Central has better reporting.

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  • [+] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's a shame, I had no idea he owned Sky News. I usually found them to be an excellent professional news source when one doesn't want the Governmental bias of the BBC.

    I wouldn't trust Comedy Central though, joke or not, they're American, and the Americans can't be trusted these days either.

    I suppose the lesson here, sadly, is that we can't believe anything from any source at all. Assume everything is half-truths, half-reported, and what we're being shown is the distraction from the thing they don't want us to look at.

    I wish I knew how to find the hidden "real news", but the sorts of people that purport to provide it are loonies in their basements in tinfoil hats, alas. Though, perhaps that's just the image of them that the media wants us to see...

    :-(

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It seems only Sky News Australia is owned by Murdoch and not linked to Sky News UK.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Aahhhh, that makes more sense. I wondered how such a seemingly respectable, proper journalistic platform could be owned by that tosser, haha.

    Well, small victories I suppose! Thank you for clarifying that.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    YSK that he is also the most successful shriveled up testicle ever, and ironically he and his children are a bunch of "cunts" according to many Australians.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Hey, not just Aussies, friend. The rest of the world also considers all of them useless, parasitic, rotten cunts — from the top of their cunty übermensch lizard-skulls to their cunty grind-the-brown-children-into-dust hoof-covers. 🤌🏼

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    lachlan is worst than he is, currently hes trying to cut his other children out of the will, so they cant potentially shut down fox, because the other children besides lachlan dont share his views.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He owns the Sun and the Sky? Is he gonna buy the Land next?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    He is the mainstream media.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Owns more than just that. Owns the entire Dow Jones as well, which explains a lot.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Technically he owns the majority stock in two mega media conglomerates that own these companies. Right now he and his children are fighting over ownership after he dies https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/12/the-guardian-view-on-the-murdoch-family-drama-moguls-death-could-imitate-art

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I never cease to be amazed that Rupert Murdoch is still alive. Truly a terrible injustice that time has not yet seen fit to take him from this world.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    A patient person with a sniper rifle could be an option.

    Obviously I'm not advocating this type of action, obviooooouuuusly. I'm merely saying that he probably doesn't have the same type of protection that a world leader enjoys soooo...

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    BUT SOROS!!!

    Checkmate Atheists!

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    he's garbage but sky news (uk) is owned by comcast not rupert these days; sky news australia is still owned by him though

    he does own talktv though.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He should be considered enemy #1 of the American people.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I suspect too that Trump is simply not useful anymore to whoever actually has significant influence within the US.

    Consider that Trump actively harms the US economy, in more ways than one.

    • Trump's stance against "handouts" to the people cripple the US economy. Poor people will spend whatever they get. If they get $1K in handouts, they're gonna spend $990 in consumer spending, thus stimulating the economy. The economy is like a human blood, it needs to keep flowing sothat the human can thrive. Trump's crippling of consumer spending cripples the US economy, and that certainly is a problem to whatever feudal lords there are in the US operating in the shadows today.
    • Trump's stance against renewable energy makes energy significantly more expensive, which again harms manufacturing (blue collar jobs) because cheap energy is the basis on which manufacturing runs. All manufacturing is a direct consequence of plentifully available cheap energy, and we all know that solar energy is the cheapest form of energy in human history
    • Trump's cuts to NASA are a threat to a new and growing economic branch that robs people of a vision of future and aspiration. The exact consequences are hard to estimate today, but they're definitely cuts to the US economy's future.

    Consider that the wealthy elite is heavily interested in a good economy; it is their life and blood.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Everything in recent years has gone sideways. Murdoch initially wanted to build Fox News around Obama but was overruled by Roger Ailes according to reports. Ailes wanted to build conservative propaganda networks whereas Murdoch wanted people watching the news.

    Jeff Bezos's wapo and Murdoch have become allies in exposing the Epstein pedophilia network. And oddly also Walmart. This must have to do with the tariffs and ultimately the economic impact of the tariffs.

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  • And oddly also Walmart.

    I suspect they might want to present themselves as "fighting for the people, i.e. against Trump"?

    Considering that walmart is heavily connected to the people directly (as they are daily customers), it is very important for them to get along well with the local citizens. That is especially so as maybe, otherwise people get dissatisfied with "big companies" and "big chains" and that anger might last out against walmart, as it is a big chain?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It will be interesting once he dies. Iirc his kids (3 of 4) inheriting his estate don’t have the same vision as him.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Most powerful billionaire in the west has real wicked witch vibes

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    He owns Australian Sky News. He doesn’t own European Sky News.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don’t know how relevant it is anymore, but I recommend watching the documentary Outfoxed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outfoxed

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Apparently Lachlan is son is even worst than he is, hes a true believer of trump. and hes trying to cut his other children out of his will, and give it all to Lachlan, because them not on the same page of conservatism, could threaten his FOx news company. Another fun fact, he seperated fox from his other news sites, so they arnt liable if fox gets sued.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Given the lawsuit orange fuckface filed last week, I expected to see the day's biggest news that Bondi informed cheeto dick he was in the files literally anywhere on foxnews, but it was all Obama treason this, Hillary emails that. Weird to think Murdoch wants to use one media arm to fight aussie dirt dingle, but not them all.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Rupert Murdoch needs to be hung, drawn and quartered, and all of his possessions divided among the entire world!

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