Murdoch order to 'kill Whitlam'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: AAP

Murdoch order to 'kill Whitlam'
AAP
June 28, 2014, 10:17 am

Rupert Murdoch reportedly instructed his editors to "kill Whitlam" before the fall of the Labor government in 1975.

Fairfax says the News Corporation chief's directive regarding former Labor leader Gough Whitlam is revealed in a diplomatic report from the US dated 1975.

The telegram from the US Consul-General in Melbourne, Robert Brand, reported to the state Department that "Rupert Murdoch has issued (a) confidential instruction to editors of newspapers he controls to 'Kill Whitlam'".

Mr Brand makes it clear that the words "kill Whitlam" were used in a political context and not as a physical threat, Fairfax says.



Read more: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/national/a/24341525/murdoch-order-to-kill-whitlam/

[Ken Burch]

1. Murdoch may not have "kill(ed) Whitlam", but he did kill socialism in Australia.

The Australian Labor Party has formed several governments since the "constitutional coup" of 1975, but none have offered any socialist or even mildly social democratic policies on economic or social justice issues(settling for worthy-but-unthreatening "boutique liberalism" on social issues instead), and none have deviated from unquestioning support of whatever our State and War Departments have got up to in the world.

[2banon]

2. interesting history.. one man could wield that level of power, wow.

kind of like Hitler.. (not making any psychological/political comparison) and a few other despots in world history. the difference, is Ruppert runs an empire that doesn't require the Military, or his own police sate or other government apparatus to wield power. interesting. Wonder if Wikileaks have collected cables/data dating back that long ago?

[Amonester]

3. A bit like that of the cock* brothers (*or koch, same soundings...)

Yeah, who really knows what other secret *auterity* mis-calculation these despot$ are up to...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. More like William Randolph Hearst.

[CJCRANE]

5. He controls a large part of the media in the English speaking world:

America, Britain, Australia (but less so in Canada AFAIK).

[dipsydoodle]

6. His affiliations change like the weather

In the 1980s he was supporting Thatcher.