Antinuclear

How big money buys the media,and threatens democracy

Rupert has indicated very clearly, he is coming to buy the alternative forms of media, not only to have control, but to make money out of it.

I liked a little thing I saw in the paper where Gina Rinehart’s Dad, good old Lang Hancock, said decades ago that if we’re going to get anywhere, we have to buy the media. And Gina is dutifully moving to do [that] just now and what a difference that has made.

Bob Brown and the media: ‘I’ll take them on … they’ve crossed the line’ THE CONVERSATION, by John Keane 4 June 11, , “……Brown:’…it ought to be for the people to make and break governments and it is for the Fourth Estate to be informing them. …. I think it goes back to Jefferson,   the very simple dictum: that information is the currency of democracy. So that information is gold and it is very important that the public has a right to be informed. But what they are getting it now is opined. They are getting an opinion coming from a multi-billionaire who cashed in his Australian citizenship because Australia didn’t serve accumulation of money well enough…..
it is a huge threat to a democracy that three big mining companies could land in town last year and for the expenditure of $22 million, save themselves $1bn in taxes in the coming ten years…….
I value the freedom of the press but I’m really concerned we’re in an age where money translates into power and therefore poverty translates into powerlessness so the big end of town, to use the generic term, has a clout way beyond the ordinary populace……

And as Rupert has indicated very clearly, he is coming to buy the alternative forms of media, not only to have control, but to make money out of it.

I liked a little thing I saw in the paper where Gina Rinehart’s Dad, good old Lang Hancock, said decades ago that if we’re going to get anywhere, we have to buy the media. And Gina is dutifully moving to do [that] just now and what a difference that has made.

Bob Brown and the media: ‘I’ll take them on … they’ve crossed the line’

June 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, media