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Australia’s news media now toes the line for big business

The real, untarnished news is getting through to a greater number of people after decades of being deliberately distorted or discarded by the power of money. Mobile phones have worked communication miracles in many countries.

The importance of Australia’s September election is beyond any in the nation’s history. The power of money has strangled good national government before. It can also deny us the full power of the NBN at the very time when we will most need its maximum capabilities.

Big money versus good government Independent Australia, Australia’s September election is more important than any in the nation’s history, writes Rodney E. Lever, as big money tries to strangle a good government. 23 June 13 “……Now newspapers are dying. Propaganda rules our lives. Good honest journalists are losing their jobs. Editorials expressing proprietorial views are on the front page.…..In the past few decades, Australia’s newspapers have gradually been taken over by ignorant multi-millionaire proprietors with other interests, and now journalists are ordered to write stories to political requirements….

… Rupert Murdoch ‒ who claims to be a journalist ‒ is a fraud. He has never written anything, except on Twitter, reads little more than balance sheets and dictates terse letters. He shows up in the working areas of his newspapers only when cameras are around.

This is why Australian politics is in turmoil. People think they are being informed by what were once called “the mirrors of the world”.  They are, in fact, reading manufactured pages of  falsehoods and duplicity.  On top of that, we are bombarded by mentally-deficient radio shock-jocks and screwed by much of the electronic media.

Australia’s current political turmoil coincides with frightening developments throughout the world. Several nations, in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, South America are erupting. Afghanistan remains unsettled as foreign troops leave and may continue as unsettled forever.

Angry frightened and exploited citizens are engaged in endless insurrection.  Sanguinary mass murder has erupted in religious wars, leaving hundreds of people killed and mountains of murdered children waiting to be buried.

This is our world. Today.

Australia will soon be faced with more important decisions than we have ever encountered before. Our alliances may need to be reviewed. Informed honest and accurate journalism is urgently needed to be discussed by all — voters and politicians. From where will the best information and advice come?

One issue is our attitude to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, both now being hunted by the US simply because they have revealed to the world how fragile is the internet and all modern communications.  They are not criminals. They are heroes.  They are, in fact, a pair who ‒ instead of life imprisonment ‒ could be vital in waterproofing the internet…..But Australia doesn’t want to know. It is hiding under the bed. We refuse to act in the defence of one of our own citizens for fear of upsetting America. We don’t want to upset China either, so we tippy toe around it. It is our own fault and it is not a hanging offence. We are working on fixing it ourselves, already.

Our future now depends on news online, as provided by Independent Australia and similar sources. The people who write for David Donovan andhis team have a good understanding of what journalism is all about.

There are many online sources now, with well informed, talented writers, undisturbed by others telling them what to write. Many of them work without payment.

The real, untarnished news is getting through to a greater number of people after decades of being deliberately distorted or discarded by the power of money. Mobile phones have worked communication miracles in many countries.

The importance of Australia’s September election is beyond any in the nation’s history. The power of money has strangled good national government before. It can also deny us the full power of the NBN at the very time when we will most need its maximum capabilities.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/big-money-versus-good-government/

June 24, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, media