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19/07/21

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Originally posted by Orson: ↑

There is only one reason and one reason only why there is at least one ABC bashing thread on HotCopper each day. The ABC is a commercial threat to Rupert Murdoch's aspirations of a media monopoly in Australia.

He and his dad have been complaining about that since 1932. They've had to invent excuses to get us to fight for their interests. In various eras they have asked us to attack the ABC because it was too highbrow, too lowbrow, too anti-worker, too left, too right, and too much a creature of the Menzies Liberal Party establishment or the Whitlam Labour Party reform movement.

None of these reasons are true. The ABC reflects Australia. That's the problem. The Murdoch approach is to build an echo chamber of media sources parroting the messages that serve his interests and the interests of the powerful forces he is in bed with. Once trapped in that echo chamber the gullible (the real "sheeple") parrot mindless abuse against fellow Australians and the taxpayers who support them - nonsensical abuse like calling others commies, leftards, lefties, woke, virtue signallers or sheep.

If you come on here and get paid to post anti-ABC rants then good luck to you. Everybody has to make a living. But if you're gullible enough to sit in the Murdoch media echo chamber and get radicalised, and actually believe that crap, you're a fool.

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Pot calling kettle .......pot calling kettle
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