The Guardian broke the story yesterday:
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Weekly salon 15/2
1. Rupert gets his just deserts
The New Daily has an article News Corp in ‘dangerous times’ as audience and revenues drop in print and digital:
- Audiences deserted Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp mastheads in 2019 with its tabloid tub-thumper The Daily Telegraph losing a massive 15.5 per cent of its readership across both print and digital editions, according to research house Roy Morgan.
Scientists, bushfires and climate change
On Monday 3 February ABC’s Media Watch examined how News Corp’s loudest voices denied or downplayed the role of climate change. Those voices included Peta Credlin, Chris Kenny and Alan Jones:
Passionate denial that the bushfires should make us act on climate change runs right across the Murdoch media in this country reaching an audience of millions.
But it’s also echoed by Murdoch’s Fox News in the US…
Weekly salon 3/2
1. Invasion Day
We spent Australia Day as we would any other day, minding our own business. I was curious as to whether ‘Invasion Day’ protests has continued.
The have according to the ABC and Al Jazeera. Continue reading Weekly salon 3/2