{"id":12900,"date":"2010-03-11T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12900"},"modified":"2010-03-11T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:17:05","slug":"john-pilger-welcome-to-the-worlds-first-murdochracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12900","title":{"rendered":"John Pilger: Welcome to the world&#8217;s first murdochracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11 March 2010<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpilger.com\/\">johnpilger.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adelaide is Australia\u2019s festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious trail starts here. No statue stands; his is a spectral presence, controlling the only daily newspaper, even the printing presses. Across Australia, he owns almost 70 per cent of the capital city press and the only national newspaper, and Sky Television, and much else. Welcome to the world\u2019s first murdochracy.<\/p>\n<p>What is a murdochracy? It is where the fealty and augmentation of Murdoch\u2019s editors and managers are undisguised, an inspiration to his choir on seven continents, where even his competitors sing along and wise politicians heed the Murdochism: \u201cWhat\u2019ll it be? A headline a day or a bucket of shit a day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpilger.com\/page.asp?partid=569\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 March 2010 johnpilger.com Adelaide is Australia\u2019s festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3m4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12902,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900\/revisions\/12902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}