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posted by martyb on Thursday August 16 2018, @01:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the railing-against-racists dept.

The state of Victoria, Australia has banned broadcasting of Sky News from the underground loop stations in Melbourne's train network.

The ban comes after Sky (owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp) broadcast an interview with far-right activist Blair Cottrell. Cottrell, the leader of the United Patriots Front, has convictions for arson, burglary and racial vilification, has advocated violence against women and has called for portraits of Adolf Hitler to be hung in school classrooms.

Victoria's transport minister, Jacinta Allen, has defended the decision against claims of censorship, stating that "Hatred and racism have no place on our screens or in our community." ... "If people want to watch Sky News in their own homes, they can do that to their heart's content," she said. "Any material that uses our public transport assets to promote itself needs to be appropriate."


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 16 2018, @03:33PM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 16 2018, @03:33PM (#722248) Journal

    That does mean that the entire Murdoch media apparatus is never going to shut up about this forever.

    I would have expected it too.
    However, I was to be somehow pleasantly surprised - see that 2nd link in TFS? SMH is owned by Murdoch.

    3/4ths of all newspapers screaming about this every day from now until the end time.

    Yeah, naah, mate. Only until the people start to get bored about - spring is coming, won't be long.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Thursday August 16 2018, @03:45PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 16 2018, @03:45PM (#722257) Journal

    Your right is better behaved than our right, then. Here they still publish multiple articles almost every month about Chappaquiddick(a democratic senator killed a woman drunk driving, covered it up, and kept his seat, but it happened over 40 years ago he's been dead for 8 years now).

    Seriously, go to google news and type that word in. Look at the endless streams of never forgetting anything.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by petecox on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:04PM (1 child)

    by petecox (3228) on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:04PM (#722381)

    Wrong.
    Sydney Morning Herald's parent company Fairfax was bought by Nine, a TV network.

    Not Rulpert!

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:59PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:59PM (#722425) Journal

      I stand corrected.

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