Murdoch muzzlers whine about being muzzled

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This is from Peta Incredlin though I could have picked any number of Murdoch dills:

Do you ever wonder, as I do, how on earth we have come to this: with free speech under constant attack; mums being denied their biological breastfeeding reality; the American Medical Association recommending the removal of the sex designation from birth certificates; and a rugby star attacked for quoting the Bible on social media, even though it’s the same book that most of our politicians hold in their hand to swear their oath of office?

The latest salvo in this war on what we are allowed to read, see, hear and discuss is the decision by US video giant YouTube to ban Sky News Australia from its distribution platform for seven days after it unilaterally claimed Sky News had breached its Covid-19 misinformation standards.

How many of the following subjects get fair and balanced coverage in the Murdoch press?

  • Climate change science. Nope.
  • Woke viewpoints and culture wars of the left. Nope.
  • Leftist political parties everywhere. Nope.
  • Liberal market economics over rent-seeking for corporations. Nope.
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I disagree with Murdoch press social conservatism, trickle-down economics, Liberal Party arse-kissing and climate troglodytism. But I don’t begrudge the existence of its editoiral point-of-view. All media outlets have one.

What is unconscionable is when it complains about the limits of speech when other, more objective media mastheads ban Murdoch’s attention-seeking, anti-science corpulants.

Cop it sweet you hypocrites.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.