no doubt Conroy wants the warmist to continue to be allowed to preach their spin but silence the free thinkers who have exposed the scam.

Belly, not all that often we agree, but on this one, you have hit the nail on the head for once.
Just take a look at England to see what depths Murdoch will sink.
Any relationship between journalism and the scribes from the Murdoch press is purely coincidental. Fortunately, The Daily Telegraph does nothing more than feed the bottom dwellers, so is unlikely to sway too many to their rabid paranoid thinking, a publication Joseph Goebbels would be proud of.

Murdoch turned on Whitlam after Whitlam called him a "shonky slob" because Murdoch wanted to be appointed Ambassador to England as a foothold to expand his media empire and he's had the Libs in his pocket ever since.

His newspaper was the only one where journalists went on strike because of editorial interference and having their stories changed by editors to meet political demands from Murdoch himself.

Now Abbott meets with Murdoch and the next day announces he will stop the NBN from proceeding because it potentially hurts Murdochs business interests. After the election he will expect to be given the Asia broadcast rights as payment for services rendered.

His newspapers are effectively doomed anyway and he has put Foxtel into the same section of his "empire" because it is potentially finished too.

The over-the-top hysteria from News Limited is an indication that they have something to worry about when it comes to telling the truth - or at least the whole truth.

It's not a matter of the half-truths he says about the ALP but his deliberate avoidance of reporting anything potentially damaging to the LNP.

Now that's something more akin to Stalinesque methods that what Conroy announced.

Belly, Paul, wobbles,

You only have to listen to your salivating at the chance to get news limited to see that this media legislation is Labor's retribution against a press that does not tow the Labor line.

If Fairfax is so balanced, what do they say?

"Freedom of speech is too important to be tossed at will into the fickle winds of cynical, face-saving politics. Yet Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has done just that in trying to rush through dangerous media reforms. Conroy has failed to make the case more media regulation is needed, let alone justify a public interest test to vet ownership or an advocate to ''authorise'' what is acceptable for people to read, see and hear. Conroy has not shown how such reforms can operate at arm's length from government - the institution with most to gain from restricting free speech."

"We also know the consequence - intended by Conroy or not - will be a sharp reduction in voices capable of holding the powerful to account."

The freedom of the press is not synonamous with the freedom to only print what Comrade Conroy believes is correct.

SM I wounder, do you understand your views are just to the right of the Tea Party?
Yesterdays Murdock media, currently under review in America and England, are no different than the ramblings of *Josephs Gobbels*
Yes Labor is lost, internally hiding its head to ignore its voters wishes and the nations.
But now, clearly, in its dieing days, this country,s Murdock print media comic books, has lost any hold on reality, so too SM have you.
The current thought, Labor voters disappear on the night your team wins,is madness.
It can not be dismissed, if most LIBERALS spoke and thought as you do, even Gillard would trounce you in any election.

I reckon Murdock is too damn far left, & needs to be straightened out.

These cleaver Labor laws will be just the weapon Tony will need to do that, just after he buries the ABC.