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Matilda

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5. I do think the government was weak when the Greens were calling for an investigation

Reply to pink (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 14, 2012, 04:07 AM

Mar 2012

into the media, including the issue of bias. "We don't really think there's a
problem" they said, but the truth was they were probably worried that if they
said there was a problem, they'd be attacked even more.

And it's politicians who gave Murdoch and others so much power, by not insisting that there be strict limits on the media owned in any one city. And Labor has been as bad as the Libs in that regard.

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I do think the government was weak when the Greens were calling for an investigation Matilda Mar 2012 #5