Comically ironic that this is coming from Murdoch, who shamelessly uses his ownership of a massive share of the Australian media to push his own political agenda. If we really wanted to tackle censorship and manipulation in this country, we’d start there.
News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly and tri-weekly newspapers, of which three are free commuter titles and 102 are suburban publications (including 16 in which News Corp Australia has a 50% interest). News Corp Australia publishes a nationally distributed newspaper in Australia, a metropolitan newspaper in each of the Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth (Sundays only), Hobart and Darwin and groups of suburban newspapers in the suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. The company publishes a further thirty magazine titles across Australia.[2] According to the Finkelstein Review of Media and Media Regulation, in 2011 the group accounted for 23% of the newspaper titles in Australia.
According to that, "News Corp Australia has nearly three-quarters of daily metropolitan newspaper circulation and so maintains great influence in Australia."
I think cable is really a zombie now, Netflix and every other streaming service is destroying them.
And as a consequence of that, I think that the libs were able to do uncle Rupert a favour and cut away the cross media rules (completely ignoring the fact that IP streaming of entertainment isn't local news / news), but I could be wrong.
Just waiting for Netflix or someone to buy the cricket and footy and crush channel 9 and foxtel.
And if I'm not mistaken they lobby pretty hard, backed up with articles in their various rags, for further watering down of Australia's media ownership laws
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Comically ironic that this is coming from Murdoch, who shamelessly uses his ownership of a massive share of the Australian media to push his own political agenda. If we really wanted to tackle censorship and manipulation in this country, we’d start there.
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News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly and tri-weekly newspapers, of which three are free commuter titles and 102 are suburban publications (including 16 in which News Corp Australia has a 50% interest). News Corp Australia publishes a nationally distributed newspaper in Australia, a metropolitan newspaper in each of the Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth (Sundays only), Hobart and Darwin and groups of suburban newspapers in the suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. The company publishes a further thirty magazine titles across Australia.[2] According to the Finkelstein Review of Media and Media Regulation, in 2011 the group accounted for 23% of the newspaper titles in Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corp_Australia
The biggest player controlling 23% of the market honestly sounds reasonable. It's worrying if someone controls 80% of the media.
Any idea what Murdoch's market share is by readership, rather than by total number of titles?
According to that, "News Corp Australia has nearly three-quarters of daily metropolitan newspaper circulation and so maintains great influence in Australia."
He also controls Foxtel, pretty much the only Pay TV operator in Australia.
Also by now I don't know if Australia has any cross media ownership rules anymore, so we could own a lot more.
I think cable is really a zombie now, Netflix and every other streaming service is destroying them.
And as a consequence of that, I think that the libs were able to do uncle Rupert a favour and cut away the cross media rules (completely ignoring the fact that IP streaming of entertainment isn't local news / news), but I could be wrong.
Just waiting for Netflix or someone to buy the cricket and footy and crush channel 9 and foxtel.
And if I'm not mistaken they lobby pretty hard, backed up with articles in their various rags, for further watering down of Australia's media ownership laws