More than 176,000 citizens have signed former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s petition for a Royal Commission into the domination of Australia’s media by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. No media organisation can feel comfortable about such a protest.
Australia has a more concentrated media ownership than any other comparable country. You don’t have to dislike the way Murdoch runs his newspapers and television station to think this is a bad and dangerous thing. Depending on how you count, he controls about 60 per cent of newspaper circulation, as well as owning SkyNews.
