Our Media Glass House researchers have a simple question: Why haven’t we seen a front page like the one above in any News Crap Australia turdbloid or its national broadshit The Australian in recent days?

Like anyone giving Murdoch media outlets even a cursory glance, they have noted what has been a vigorous pro-Liberal Party advertising campaign dressed up as news coverage – perhaps more correctly, News coverage – in the Murdoch media after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s announcement that his government had finally decided to junk the Morrison Government’s plans for giving big tax cuts to some of the wealthiest Australians. (below)

Albo was flayed for daring in late January to change his mind as circumstances changed and for acknowledging that lower-income individuals and families required extra and direct help via tax cuts to battle the rising cost of living.

As any ad agency does, News Crap Australia didn’t bother with fussy, perhaps even woke, concepts such as balance, objectivity, or facts when designing the advertisements it ran for its major client, the federal Liberal Party.

Murdoch’s national broadshit The Australian of course added its self-important voice to the “debate” and ran the Liberal Party’s attack lines in its headlines and stories. (below)

The Oz threw out all concepts of objectivity in its front-page headline in its 26 January edition. (below)

The word deceit did not appear as “deceit” to suggest someone who disagreed with Albo’s action was throwing it at the PM.

No, The Oz presented it as a statement of fact, just as Peter Dutton and the Liberal Party were doing.

Our MGH teams acknowledge that they haven’t even bothered to look at the coverage by Sky News and its far-right after dark “commentators” of the stage-three tax cuts decision.

They can only imagine the unpaid political broadcasts on behalf of the Liberal Party that have been aired on that particular 24/7 anti-Labor open sewer.

All of which brings us back to the original question posed by our MGH teams.

If the government’s decision on stage-three tax cuts is so wrong, and will not deliver the aims it is designed to do – as the Liberal Party advertisements dressed up as news stories in the Murdoch media insist is the case – why isn’t Peter Dutton copping stick for now deciding to support them?

Why isn’t he being attacked for not dying in a ditch for maintaining the stage-three tax rates that he suggests are still the right thing to do.

Well, as our MGH researchers suggest, it all comes down to terminology.

It seems that in Murdoch world Labor doesn’t change its mind to best suit changed economic circumstances,  instead it breaks promises and acts with deceit.

On the other hand, the Liberal Party doesn’t go to water or gets wedged. It “pivots”. (below)

Such tricky word play shows how lucky the Liberals are to have such an experienced advertising agency on their side in Holt Street, Surry Hills.

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