Ex-Prime Minister of Australia slams News Corp (FOX News)

Malcolm Fraser was Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983. He was commenting on the state of politics in Australia and mentioned how politicians in Australia are too afraid of News Corporation

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[fielsjd]

I guess you can tell it like it is when you are no longer in office.

[cdgh99]

unfortunately people who watch fox news probably will never watch this or other such programs so they will never be aware or care of the bias that they are subjected to. Long live the ABC, BBC and other truly independent mediums.

[TheTopBloke]

@cdgh99 True, but the news in all of those countries you mentioned rarely provides an objective analysis. At least in the USA they are upfront and in your face about how biased they are. The best thing to do is simply turn all of the crap off, no matter what country you're in.

[TheTopBloke]

@cdgh99 This is a horrible program. Always slanted towards the government in power. It's just a propaganda machine.

[TheTopBloke]

He's really only talking shit because he's no longer on the payroll.

[cdgh99]

@manictatter I have spent a lot of time in the US and so much of the news there is sensationalised and biased either way. In the UK where i live and Australia where i grew up the newspapers are allowed to show such opinion but the TV is not (in the UK).

From your statement i would guess that you haven't seen much of either the ABC (aust) or BBC.There is little political agenda and no commercial pressures to influence the news. Murdoch is famous for openly supporting politicians from both sides

[manictatter]

@cdgh99 Unfortunately your're wrong. I have watched Fox News and IMO, there is always bias because those who will report and/or those who make the decisions, have a personal view. To suggest otherwise is foolish.

Fraser's point is biased and ill founded for it implies the opposing media networks to Fox are neutral. Just checkout MSNBC in the US. Just like Fox, but the opposite side.

[bigswano]

Fraser talks like he was actually a good Prime Minister, which he sure as hell wasn't

All he's remembered for is sticking the knife into Whitlam

News Corp has a clear right-wing agenda, and that comes through in all their newspapers. It is to get the Liberal Party elected, just as it is to get the Republicans elected in the US.

[dan91709]

Fox News must be investigated for its illegal pay-offs and bribes to US officials and law enforcement.

[Crosseyedpresident]

@russ9356 ...Tennessee, actually.

[russ9356]

the same idiot with his pants down in texas

[winifredatwell]

Few figures in Australian public life pack the moral punch of Malcolm Fraser. Better than anyone, he knows intimately the power of the Murdoch press, having been both its beneficiary (in 1975, Murdoch was personally writing the editorials for his news organs calling for Whitlam's sacking and replacment by Fraser) and its target (News Ltd's editorial slant is that Fraser is defacto leader of the Labor Party left). Australians owe him deep respect for taking on the News Ltd media megaphone.