MEDIA NEWS:

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch (far right and at left in main picture) has personally ordered the sacking of all News Crap Australia staff involved in the researching, writing, editing, and publishing of a story appearing in the group’s Australian turdbloid newspapers today attacking the nation’s ambassador to the USA and former prime minister Kevin Rudd.

The story (far right and at right in main picture) lambasted Mr Rudd’s spending as ambassador on official entertaining, citing a bill of US$107,000 in the 2023-2024 financial year.

Mr Murdoch who retired as co-chair of the global News Crap organisation last year but maintains a role as co-chair of the global News Crap organisation, apologised to Mr Rudd for the story.

“I must say I was incensed when I read that item,” Mr Murdoch said. “It was so heavily slanted against Mr Rudd and quoted figures very selectively just to paint him in a bad light.

“In particular I was outraged that buried in the story was the fact that in the 2015-2016 year the cost of such expenses incurred by the Australian ambassador in Washington – a job shared in that period by former federal treasurer Joe Hockey and former Labor leader Kim Beazley – was US$121,000.

“Given the inflationary environment since then, it means that Mr Rudd has actually cut back such spending. Yet the story gave him no credit for that and simply presented figures with little context just to do him over.

“I really can’t stand by and let that happen, given my personal commitment and adherence to editorial fairness and factual reporting.

“That’s why I have directed my son Lachlan and all the editors of the papers who ran the story to make up their own independent minds and sack all concerned.

“I won’t brook the risk of a repeat of such a blatantly anti-Rudd and by extension blatantly anti-Labor approach to reporting in newspapers that I own,” Mr Murdoch said. “We must continue to be scrupulously bi-partisan.”

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