THE Long 1980s never seems to ever end, but a sign of that era’s departure into the rearview mirror came this week with the announcement of the…
But what is worse than Murdoch’s tabloid culture here and their courting and cultivating of the political far-right is the extent of global reach – the completely unregulated global media power that such individuals wield. It is the “stateless zone of the super-rich” that we have witnessed emerging in the last two decades, the era of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, the tech giants and the media moguls.
It is a dark paradox that an individual who regularly stokes the enmity of nationalism and racism – Trump’s election andwould not have been possible without him – operates beyond and above national borders and controls. “My father firmly believed in freedom, and Lachlan is absolutely committed to the cause,” he wrote about the new chair of his media empire. Lachlan, we are told, is even more libertarian and right-wing than his father. If you can believe it, the Lachlan transition will lead the Murdoch empire further to the right.
Labour came under the spell of Murdoch despite seeing Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock be mauled by the Murdoch media. No more craven example of this can be seen than former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson who gushed: “Congratulations to Rupert Murdoch for pulling off a seamless transition within the family’s global media empire — something no UK political leader has ever achieved at Number 10”.Watson may be a particularly supine individual but even this is crass for his political class.
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