{"id":428,"date":"2004-04-07T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=428"},"modified":"2004-04-07T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T11:00:07","slug":"news-corp-decision-saddens-downer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"News Corp decision saddens Downer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #550; font size: 12x; padding: 5px; margin:\n5px;\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2004\/04\/07\/1081326792562.html\">April 7, 2004 &#8211; 8:05PM<\/a>]  Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says he is saddened by News Corporation&#8217;s decision to move its home to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch announced on Tuesday, News Corp&#8217;s home country of incorporation would be moved from Adelaide to New York by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a South Australian, I sort of am (saddened),&#8221; Mr Downer said in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a sort of end of an era.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little sad but News Corporation have to make commercial judgments &#8211; it&#8217;s a business, not just an emotional outfit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can understand why he (Mr Murdoch) has made the decision but I think, as a South Australian, I would have to say I&#8217;m a little sorry to see it happen.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It saddens me too, Mr. Downer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[April 7, 2004 &#8211; 8:05PM] Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says he is saddened by News Corporation&#8217;s decision to move its home to the United States. Chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch announced on Tuesday, News Corp&#8217;s home country of incorporation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-6U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}