Australia/Media

Australia/Media

Media in Australia outlines the current state of the corporate press, television, radio, film and cinema, and social media in Australia.

Overview

There are two national and 10 state/territory daily newspapers. Increasingly, news material is published online in Australia, sometimes exclusively. Each state and territory has one or two dominant daily newspapers which focus upon the major national news while also containing news of importance for the state that it is sold in. These include: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Age (Melbourne), The Herald Sun (Melbourne) and The Canberra Times. The two national daily newspapers are The Australian and The Australian Financial Review, which are owned by different companies. Nearly all major metropolitan newspapers are owned either by News Limited, a subsidiary of News Corporation, or Nine Entertainment Co..

Other notable corporate and government news websites are: news.com.au, ABC News Online, Seven News Online, SBS News Online, Nine News, and the Guardian Australia.

In addition to the public broadcasters ABC and Special Broadcasting Service, there are three major commercial television networks: the Seven Network, the Nine Network and Network 10.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Full article: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Murdoch

Full articles: Rupert Murdoch, NewsCorp

Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-American media magnate, the founder, chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate. Long suspected of being a CIA asset.

Bill Casey was one of the key men in the acquisition of media after WW2. It was one of his proteges (a young German immigrant to the US) who was sent back to Germany after the war to take over Bertelsmann and build it up. Rupert Murdoch was very tight with Shackley, which is how he got launched on his global acquisitions and has now taken over the WSJ. Murdoch was running a failed national newspaper in Australia while Shackley was station chief in Oz. Then suddenly he becomes a US citizen literally overnight and goes on an endless buying spree. Shackley's pockets were infinitely deep. At the time, Murdoch was facing the likely closure of his newspaper The Australian. His ticket out was Shackley. This also explains why Murdoch was allowed to break all the rules in acquisition of media in America.

Integrity Initiative

The Integrity Initiative's Australian Cluster is referenced by Euan Grant in the sixth Integrity Initiative leak in Document:Integrity Initiative Weekly Report 16th to 22nd July 2018.

Also mentioned, was that Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor of The Australian, held a closed door meeting on Australia’s perception of the Chinese threat at the London Henry Jackson Society. His "contact details have been circulated with comments to Australian cluster UK colleagues."

See also Australian Strategic Policy Institute for a similar setup to the Integrity Initiative.

Trusted journalists

In 2019 Mike Pezzullo, head of the Home Affairs Department, openly boasted that he had two dozen 'trusted' journalists he spoke with. He said he only talked to them to confirm or deny the veracity of information they had already gathered, and did not leak material himself. Pezzullo would not name the journalists or explain how they reacted if he felt the material they wanted to publish or broadcast was against Australia's "national security interests" or might be embarrassing for the government.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Theodore Shackley	“Bill Casey was one of the key men in the acquisition of media after WW2. It was one of his proteges (a young German immigrant to the US) who was sent back to Germany after the war to take over Bertelsmann and build it up. Rupert Murdoch was very tight with Shackley, which is how he got launched on his global acquisitions and has now taken over the WSJ. Murdoch was running a failed national newspaper in Australia while Shackley was station chief in Oz. Then suddenly he becomes a US citizen literally overnight and goes on an endless buying spree. Shackley's pockets were infinitely deep. At the time, Murdoch was facing the likely closure of his newspaper The Australian. His ticket out was Shackley. This also explains why Murdoch was allowed to break all the rules in acquisition of media in America.”	Theodore Shackley Sterling Seagrave	2007

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