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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines8/27/2018 6:30:49 pm PDT

Former Australian PM says Rupert Murdoch is the biggest threat to democracy in the world

Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, former Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd slammed the billionaire media mogul as “the greatest cancer on the Australian democracy.”

“Murdoch is not just a news organisation. Murdoch operates as a political party, acting in pursuit of clearly defined commercial interests, in addition to his far-right ideological world view,” he charged.

The former prime minister noted parallels with America, where the News Corp executive chairman owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal.

“In the United States, Murdoch’s Fox News is the political echo chamber of the far right, which enabled the Tea Party and then the Trump party to stage a hostile takeover of the Republican Party,” he noted. “In Australia, as in America, Murdoch has campaigned for decades in support of tax cuts for the wealthy, killing action on climate change and destroying anything approximating multiculturalism.”