Lachlan Murdoch vs Crikey may turn out to be a misconceived adventure in reputation repair | Richard Ackland

‘Lachlan Murdoch’s defamation action against Crikey reveals much – about ego, the drift of American politics and media, and defamation law itself.’‘Lachlan Murdoch’s defamation action against Crikey reveals much – about ego, the drift of American politics and media, and defamation law itself.’Last modified on Fri 26 Aug 2022 08.02 BST

Succour has been added to the calls for an inquiry into the influence in this country of the Murdochs and the concentration of mainstream media voices. The process of pretrial discovery could produce hitherto unknown information about the operations ofthat, at the least, prove embarrassing to the proprietors and further fuel a backlash against their corporate interests.

It ended with this paragraph: “If Trump ends up in the dock for a variety of crimes committed as president, as he should be, not all his co-conspirators will be there with him. Nixon was famously the ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ in Watergate. The Murdochs and their slew of poisonous Fox News commentators are the unindicted co-conspirators of this continuing crisis.”

Despite the reassurance about an improved legal landscape for publishers, there are still plenty of tripwires in the legislation on which a good media case can founder.

money, versus decency, and the winner is…?

“It seems incongruous that the chief executive of the most watched cable network in the US and co-chairman of News Corp, with its global stable of newspapers, would be so troubled by an opinion piece published down under.”

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