The Federal Government has made it clear that it intends changing the media laws in Oz. Many have expressed their grave misgivings about such a move - especially as it would deliver more control to 3 "players", Murdoch, Packer and possibly Fairfax [if it hasn't been taken-over]. If proof was ever needed that there needs to be more diversity and less restrictions on media-ownership it comes from News Ltd's [that is - Rupert Murdoch] Australian newspaper proudly crowing last Friday that News Ltd. has lifted its major newpaper market in Oz to 68.5%. Do we really want Rupert Murdoch controlling most of what we read, hear and see?
Most commentary on the Chilcot Inquiry Report of and associated with the Iraq War, has been "lifted" from the Executive Summary. The Intercept has actually gone and dug into the Report, with these revelations : "THE CHILCOT REPORT, the U.K.’s official inquiry into its participation in the Iraq War, has finally been released after seven years of investigation. Its executive summary certainly makes former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who led the British push for war, look terrible. According to the report, Blair made statements about Iraq’s nonexistent chemical, biological, and nuclear programs based on “what Mr. Blair believed” rather than the intelligence he had been given. The U.K. went to war despite the fact that “diplomatic options had not been exhausted.” Blair was warned by British intelligence that terrorism would “increase in the event of war, reflecting intensified anti-US/anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim world, including among Muslim communities in the
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