David McKnight
Populism Now!: The case for progressive populism by David McKnight
Killing Fairfax by Pamela Williams & Rupert Murdoch by David McKnight
Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery: The quest for power in Northern Queensland by David McKnight
Beyond Right and Left: New politics and the culture wars by David McKnight
Going The Whiteman’s Way: Kinship And Marriage Among Australian Aborigines by David McKnight
La Trobe University Essay ‘Rupert Murdoch and the Culture War’ by David McKnight
Rupert Murdoch founded The Australian in 1964 as a bold statement or his belief that this country needed a quality national daily newspaper. His action was based on a nation-building vision that he shared with the leader or the Country Party, John McEwen, who deeply influenced him at that time.
For twenty years, The Australian lost money, a strange anomaly in the life of its ruthlessly commercial owner. In a 1994 address to the free-market thinktank, the Centre for Independent Studies, Murdoch mentioned these losses but argued that some things were more important than short-term profits – ideas in society. He went on to quote John Maynard Keynes’s famous lines about the significance of political and philosophical ideas to men who regarded themselves as supremely practical. In the media business, ‘we are all ruled by ideas’, Murdoch added.
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