Former PM Claims News Corp Is Australia’s Most Powerful Political Actor
Turnbull alleged that the media giant was the most powerful political actor in the country.
“The most powerful political actor in Australia is not the Liberal Party or the National Party or the Labor Party; it is News Corporation,” Turnbull said. “And it is utterly unaccountable. It is controlled by an American family, and their interests are no longer, if they ever were, coextensive with our own.”
News Corp owns many Australian newspapers, including The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Advertiser, Sky News Australia, and online outlet news.com.au.
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In the fight for tech giants to pay for news, Google relented. Facebook didn t
Gerrit De Vynck, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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FILE - In this March 11, 2014 file photo, News Corp. Exeuctive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, center, and his sons, Lachlan, left, and James Murdoch attend the 2014 Television Academy Hall of Fame in Beverly Hills.Dan Steinberg/INVL
Facebook on Wednesday blocked people in Australia from posting news stories on its website, a drastic escalation in the battle over whether tech giants should pay publishers when their stories show up in search results or on social media.
Google took the opposite approach. The company struck deals in recent days with Australia s major publishing companies, including on Wednesday with Rupert Murdoch s News Corp, to pay for some of their news content. The deal came in exchange for avoiding the most stringent parts of a new law in Australia, walking back its own threat from last month to shut down its search