Pelican,

" can you not see the dangers in concentration of media ownership and in a biased media." In this case absolutely not.

Newscorp has only a small fraction of the total media, and there are plenty of other papers with a large variety of "biases" and opinions, there are blogs, news letters, facebook, twitter etc, before even considering radio, TV etc.

Newscorp has a small number of very popular papers that supply 70% of newspaper readers largely because the reporting reflects the views of his readers. The investigative journalism, the wide variety of analysis and opinion pieces are not matched by any other. People buy the papers because they want to. The moment the papers become a purely political mouthpiece the readers will abandon them.

Whether you like it or not "Throw this mob out" is the sentiment of the majority of Australians.

Yes, SM, nothing like an avalanche of party political propaganda to help along the "opinion" of the masses.

No one can deny the venom delivered by the Murdoch media in this election.....it's so blatant and in yer face.

You might think that's good for democracy, but some us are aware of other instances in other countries where this sort of garbage was the thin end of the wedge.

Yes, Poirot, nothing like an avalanche of party political propaganda to help along the "opinion" of the masses.

No one can deny the venom delivered by the ABC media in this election.....it's so blatant and in yer face. Not to include the avalanche of negative (and factually incorrect) Labor advertising.

You might think that's good for democracy, but some us are aware of other instances in other socialist countries where this sort of garbage was the thin end of the wedge.

Re Rooty Hill;
I thought the best line of the night was from Tony Abbott;

"If you want a personal opinion of myself, ask my collegues.
If you want a personal opinion of Kevin Rudd ask his collegues."

Interesting.

Sorry, SM, the ABC has been flogging Abbott and the Libs with a wet lettuce leaf - if anything.

"Nothing" compared to Murdoch's outright and unequivocal bias.

Anything dodgy concerning the Libs has been pretty much ignored by all MSM...and if MSM abd the ABC do get around to inquiring, it's only tacked on as an afterthought...like Brough's dodgy actions, etc.

(Pull the other one, it's got bells on it)

seen the ABC is so bias towards the Libs, no Labour tragic will complain about any cuts or sales. Now that both sides agree it is bias lets be rid of it.