Will News Corp change its approach after Labor's election win? Not if the US example is anything to go by
- Written by Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney

In 1953, the Communist East German regime quashed a widespread uprising and afterwards admonished the protesters, saying the government had lost confidence in the people. In a famous satirical poem, left-wing author Bertolt Brecht said that, if so, perhaps the government...