{"id":29561,"date":"2024-10-11T16:11:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=29561"},"modified":"2024-10-11T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:11:49","slug":"labor-liberal-weak-on-murdoch-as-media-reform-stalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/11\/labor-liberal-weak-on-murdoch-as-media-reform-stalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor & Liberal weak on Murdoch as media reform stalled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Greens have criticised Labor and Liberal for failing to back a Royal Commission into Australian Media labelling them \u201cMurdoch cowards.\u201d Today, a Senate Inquiry report into the Murdoch media was tabled<\/a> in Parliament as Australia\u2019s media ownership concentration slips further to now rank 2nd-worst in the world.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens spokesperson for Communications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPublic interest journalism is critical for democracy, but Australia now ranks 2nd worst in the world<\/a> for media diversity and the Government is failing to deliver the comprehensive media reforms needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m concerned we are seeing a rising distrust in news media as the Murdoch empire continues to undermine quality journalism and democracy in Australia and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Murdoch media\u2019s litany of biassed campaigns diminish Australian journalism as a profession and regularly fail to meet the basic standards enumerated in the Journalist Code of Ethics.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn Australia the Murdoch media organisation fuels social division, targets individual women and vulnerable minorities, and delays climate action to prop up fossil fuels. Abroad, Fox News\u2019 role <\/a>in the Dominion voting scandal and the UK phone hacking scandals are a matter of public record.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New revenue, regulations needed for public interest journalism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cComprehensive media reform in Australia is well overdue and a Commission of Inquiry would have been a sensible pathway to get the job done. It is disappointing that neither Labor nor Liberal are prepared to tackle these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPublic interest journalism and the health of our democracy continues to be eroded each and every day the Government fails to deliver real media reform. The Government response to Meta\u2019s threats to the News Media Bargaining Code remains unresolved, media regulations for the digital era are either non-existent or out of date, and funding for small and independent news agencies remains in limbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs big tech corporations continue to cannibalise public interest journalism it\u2019s clear we need to ensure a fair share of the revenue sucked up by social media platforms is invested back in the news and content they take for free. After a decade of Coalition cuts to the ABC and SBS, full funding has still not been restored and public broadcasters remain vulnerable to political attack and influence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greens have criticised Labor and Liberal for failing to back a Royal Commission into Australian Media labelling them \u201cMurdoch cowards.\u201d Today, a Senate Inquiry report into the Murdoch media was tabled in Parliament as Australia\u2019s media ownership concentration slips further to now rank 2nd-worst in the world. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens spokesperson for Communications: \u201cPublic … Continue reading “Labor & Liberal weak on Murdoch as media reform stalled”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29562,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561\/revisions\/29562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}