Kevin Rudd jumps again at the shadows of News Corp
- Written by Eric Abetz
Former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s call for a Royal Commission into the “arrogant cancer” of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is glaringly and conveniently short on detail and replete with his usual rhetoric and contempt for any media that doesn’t preach the woke Green-Left mantra.
The petition organised by Mr Rudd calling for a Royal Commission asserts that “Australians who hold contrary views have felt intimidated into silence” yet Mr Rudd is hell-bent on intimidating Mr Murdoch into silence.
"People have the right to choose which media they consume, and Australia already has a diverse media landscape with its newspapers, radio and television and online media holding a vast array of positions on the political spectrum," said Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz.
"Mr Rudd also alleges that Rupert Murdoch apparently holds a vendetta against the Labor Party even though Mr Murdoch himself endorsed Mr Rudd for the prime ministership during the 2007 election."
"It seems whilst Mr Murdoch was onside, he was a wholesome multi-vitamin supplement to the body politic and now he has turned into this alleged arrogant cancer."
"People are free to purchase and consume whichever media content they want. Mr Rudd seemingly has a healthy disdain for Australians’ choices of media source."
"The question for the current Labor leader, Mr Albanese, is whether he will he come out and support his friend and former colleague’s Ruddiciulous call for such a commission?"
Albert Van Dijk
