The world is accustomed to having Rupert Murdoch and his various media outlets act as cheer squads for lying, low-rent, right-wing ratbag politicians.
Just look at how his US interests, notably Fox News barracked for the bald-faced liar Donald Trump – a person recently and very aptly described by former US Republican Party activist now conservative political commentator Tim Miller as America’s “most unethical, morally decrepit, irredeemably malignant citizen”.
Just look at how his Australian interests barracked for the bald-faced liar Scott Morrison.
And in the UK, it was Murdoch’s outlets, notably his populist tabloid interests that barracked for Boris Johnson and the lies he told that helped deliver the disaster that is Brexit and which helped send him to Number 10 Downing Street.
But, as our Media Glass House researchers found, at least now that Boris has been finally forced to exit the British Parliament, Rupert is still ready to lend a hand.
Take a look at how some of the British tabloids treated Johnson’s departure following the release of a damning parliamentary report into his behaviour and his accounts of his behaviour during the UK’s COVID lockdown when he was PM. (main picture)
Not all UK newspapers were as brutal to Boris, but they still made the point that he was a liar who had to go. (below)
Now take a look at how Rupert’s turdbloid The Sun dealt with what almost all other publications thought was front-page material. (below)
Just a small pointer to an insider story that takes Boris’s side, notably his claim that the report that sunk him was a politically motivated “assassination”.
Our MGH researchers say that the cosy links between Boris and Rupert’s rags is there for all to see if you head to News Corp UK’s website.
There on its “about us” page is a collage of snaps which prominently features the chubby, deliberately rumpled and tousled-haired blond liar. (below)
Clearly Murdoch’s minions have always, and may well continue, to embrace Boris because he helps them sell their grubby rags, although now that he has signed up as a columnist for a rival publication he may find them less supportive.
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As our regular reader would know, our Media Glass House teams have been keeping tabs on the campaign by the Liberal Party’s advertising and PR agency, News Crap Australia, to help promote Peter Dutton’s plans to establish a nuclear power industry in Australia.
They recently noticed two curious developments in that issue.
First, on 12 June a column by Patrick Carlyon ran in four News Crap turdbloids which advocated the embrace of nuclear power.
Mr Carlyon is a columnist for the daily turdbloid totally ignored by most Melbourne residents, The Herald Sun.
Yet for some reason his pro-nuke views ran in the Murdoch turdbloids in Brisbane, Sydney, and Adelaide. (below)
Interestingly, only the Herald Sun and Brisbane’s Courier-Mail chose to identify the writer as a Melbourne lad. (below)
No doubt News Crap honchos would say it was just coincidence that all four editors made totally independent decision to publish the same column by a person who normally spruiks his thoughts to Melburnians.
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The nuclear (political) war raged on a few days later when on Saturday and apropos of pretty much nothing the Liberal National Party senator from Queensland, Matt Canavan, continued the campaign with columns in The Courier-Mail and The Daily Telegraph in Sydney. (below)
Once again, no doubt the Murdoch honchos would again point to independent decisions by the powers that be at the Daily Tele to run a fairly mediocre argument by an out-of-state senator.
Our MGH Teams know that our reader may be getting bored by their pursuit of this issue, but they vow that the will continue to monitor the appearance of these type of columns in Murdoch turdbloids, as well as in its national broadshit The Australian. Someone has to.
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Finally, congrats to The Courier-Mail for using euphemism for buttocks in two stories on two sequential pages. (below)
However, our MGH researchers do feel obliged to point out that in the story on the left ex-senator Amanda Stoker did use the word “bottom” when detailing where ex-Liberal senator David Van pinched her.
Maybe changing to the use of “bum” was necessary because “bottom” was already taken by the story on the right.
Although our MGH teams have suggested other headings for the story detailing a drop-off in testing rates for free bowel cancer scans.
“Arse falls out of bowel testing” was one, with another being “Don’t get coit out by cancer” is another. Our reader may have other ideas.
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