Thinking ahead 5-10 years to when Gina Rinehart finally sacks a few Fairfax executives, rips up the charter, and installs a sympathetic board, it’s not too hard to imagine the front page of the SMH for that day. I should point out here that I occasionally work worked for Gina Fairfax Media…
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Gina Rinehart is like “Jabba the Hutt” in drag.
Seriously though, the Aussie media is messed up enough without her unwanted control
Why are so many men so afraid of women with power. Afraid of emasculation???? Statistics show that when women are in control of a company, a situation, or even just a picnic everyone ends up happier and more satisfied than if men were in charge. Go Gina. Show ‘em how it’s really done. Australian (male) Politicians are probably working out how to make it illegal for women to own their own business and stop women driving cars.
Oh Miranda. That was divine.
Meanwhile Graeme Woods lefty organ is given a pass, even nthough it is full of the stupid sort of bilge that only half-educated fairfax and ABC ‘journalists’ can produce.
This is great work, but I’m not sure whether all the typos are intended, as a demo of slipping sub-editing standards to come under Gina’s reign: guaranteed, deadly, mogul, immigration, etc.
Yes, Miranda; that’s the issue here. It’s completely the fact that she’s a woman, and not the fact that she holds extreme right wing views and is attempting to buy up media outlets to further her own interests. Please feel free to continue trying to make this into a completely different issue.
Miranda, its got nothing to do with Ginas gender. Andrew Forest is just as big a worry (although admittedly he hasn’t proposed the use of nuclear weapons in mining and dredging yet), and those of us anxious about Gina are frankly even more anxious about Rupert Murdoch.
The reality is Murdoch owns 70% of national newspapers, and is a far-right activist.
Gina, wants to pick the fairfax papers which would then bring the number of australian newspapers run by far-right activists to 90%. The remaining newspaper, the west australian, and whilst a generally honest newspaper goes totally bonkers-right wing around election times.
We’re talking people here who have views that would make your cranky catholic grandfather seem positively leftist by comparison.
But the end result is that we will have almost no newspapers devoted to actualy just relaying news.
Thats incredibly harmful for our already fragile democracy, and its something people should be deeply concerned about.
Gina has explicitely said she wants to run a newspaper chain so she can control the country. We’re not infering this, she actually came right out and said it. That should cause serious alarm for most people.
Urghh.. Typo’s not my strong poing….I shoudl point out that I time to tmie work for Friafax
And what of our newspaper here in Melbourne? The Middle Age? Or The Dark Age, perhaps? That is where this woman wants to take us back to!
Xenox News is Australia’s only fair dinkum newspaper. Been reading it for years.
Perfect, exept Fairfax style for headlines is single quotation marks.
Obviously I’m not a fan of her buying a giant share of Fairfax but can we really say that looks that different to how it is now?
The Sydney Mining Herald…funny, sad and horribly true.
Shayne O – re The West Australian – it is totally bonkers-right wing _all_ the time.
No sport for Gina here!
Miranda, that’s ridiculous. How did you reach a computer anyway….? your chain’s obviously too long.