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Welcome to the world of Nineteen Eighty Four: The U.K. scandal and Australia : Comments

By Peter West, published 21/7/2011

Is an independent inquiry and an independent regulator needed in Australia?

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Dont let a storm in the tea-cup worry you Sir!

Every thing is under control.
Posted by skeptic, Thursday, 21 July 2011 9:28:29 AM
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Rupert Murdock, his firm his family, may have committed only one sin.
That of bias openly knowingly shown in every way bias for one side against the other.
May? I should say did, at least, but in doing so we are less likely to read or see the details here.
Not in his papers nore TV news, see the purchase is total, loyalty unchallenged, to them not us.
Australian Police, no not all, just far too many, can be bought and sold by every one from Criminal Biker gangs to?
How many think it will ever change? indeed Skeptic, every thing is as you say under control and many coats of white wash.
Posted by Belly, Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:37:55 AM
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Ah well, it is not "Hacking" anyway.

The telephone company running the system is equally to blame.
That they would be so stupid to not have software running in the
base stations and in the whole system that would not allow two mobile's
with the same phone number to operate at the same time, it is they that
should be in parliament answering questions.

There are two ways to do the trick and neither should be possible.
The reporters seem to have used facilities that are provided on the system.
Posted by Bazz, Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:46:11 AM
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What should concern Australians is the need for a free press providing a range of balanced views and accurate news, preferably under diverse ownership. There can be little doubt that we have a press which is free to source and publish any material, provided it does so within the law. By and large this occurs since we appear to have avoided UK travails. There, some journalists and editors have treated the law with contempt and as an obstacle to circulation and profits and setting rather than influencing public policy and opinion.

However, in Australia 75% of the print media is owned by one company which in popular parlance has become known as “Murdoch press”. The Murdoch press owns the country’s only national newspaper, and leading newspapers in every State capital except Perth.

It is not coincidence that the Murdoch press, like its UK and USA counterparts, should espouse views based on right wing ideology and lack political balance in what it reports and the way it is reported. It is not coincidence that in Australia newspapers published by the Murdoch press should reject the science of global warming, its effects on climate and be opposed to pricing carbon. Here again there is not only lack of balanced reporting but a concerted effort to influence public opinion, government policy and bring down the nations minority government. In these endeavours, the Murdoch press appears willing to any lengths, including misrepresenting the truth.

At the very least, we should ask weather such concentration of media ownership serves our interests as a nation and as individuals. The fact that Murdoch newspapers, Nation-wide and State-wide should all follow the same line has, in the past raised assertions of undue influence by Rupert Murdoch, rejected by him with unconvincing assurance that his newspaper editors had complete freedom.

In Australia we have warned against and in a tokenistic way tried to limit concentration of media ownership. This has not been very successful and what we are left with is the concentration of Australian media in foreign ownership. For reasons noted above, this is far from satisfactory.
Posted by Agnostic of Mittagong, Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:47:57 AM
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Belly:

...but oh how “exhilarating” to see the real scum of the earth treated as the crims we all know them to be! Bring it all on…Yahhoo….
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:55:54 AM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8650631/Rupert-Murdochs-Fox-News-ran-black-ops-department-former-executive-claims.html
Ten? it could be ten times ten such links posted here.
That Many unanswered questions, ten times more concerns even fears.
Are we having our selves on.
Do we elect governments to run our country.
Or can cash/power /influence trash Democracy?
Posted by Belly, Thursday, 21 July 2011 12:27:56 PM
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