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Posted by Ellen -7837.60pc on July 09, 2021
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Fox News is letting Tucker Carlson pretend he’s some kind of Deep State martyr, even as the network tacitly acknowledges he’s full of it.
Media Matters has a good rundown of Carlson’s latest lies:
Tucker Carlson’s week-old claim that the National Security Agency is illegally “monitoring” his “electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air” finally made it to another Fox program when he gave an interview to Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. The Fox star’s incendiary allegation last Monday night had brought widespread news coverage, a rare denial from the NSA, and demands for investigations from congressional Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). But one party remained notably silent about the host’s description of a government plot to destroy his show until this morning: Fox.
Rupert Murdoch
Australia is trying to do something about the problem of right wing propaganda in their country where Rupert Murdoch owns a 59% share of the metropolitan and national print media markets.
Australia has one of the highest levels of media concentration in the world. News Corp apparently plans to expand its reach in the country.
Former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull are making their case for dismantling the Murdoch hold on their media and they are using the January 6 insurrection in the U.S. as an example of what can happen when the media is allowed to run amok through unregulated ownership.