The opposition parties in australia feel the same thing, because they rely on murdock's influence to get in. And so they're reluctant to criticise it beyond fixing blatantly obvious things like making sure that the public journalism is supported. The only politicians that seem to be a comfortable coming out criticising modock and newscorp inside of australia are the ex politicians. They're the only ones that will come out and say, this is got to stop. We need to do something about it. He has too much influence in the country.
Ben and James discuss Australia’s Media Bargaining Code and its fall-out.
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- Ben Thompson: Google Makes Deal With News Corp, Facebook Blocks News in Australia, Microsoft’s Shamelessness — Stratechery Daily Update
- James Allworth: Australia’s Proposed “Fox News Tax” — Medium
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