Labor and Albanese should stop wasting their energy appeasing News Corp

Jack Waterford
Updated April 9 2022 - 8:01am, first published April 8 2022 - 12:00pm
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

I think the power of the ranting media - News Corp in particular - is on the decline. The strongest argument against my opinion is the way politicians continue to line up to pay homage to those who control the media, and, in the case of ministers, hand over to media owners hundreds of millions of public money so as to buy, or at least, rent, their favour.

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Jack Waterford

Jack Waterford is a former editor of The Canberra Times.

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