Media power: why the full story of Murdoch, Stokes and the Liberal leadership spill needs to be told
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is notorious for meddling in politics.AAP/Dan Himbrechts
The first German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, said there were two sights the public should not see: the making of laws and the making of sausages. To this list of enduringly nauseating spectacles we should add one more: the political machinations of media moguls.
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