Following reports that Rupert Murdoch might be 'plotting a return' to New Zealand, Toby Manhire looks at the global shadow he casts in media, business and politics across more than six. The National prime minister, wrote biographer Barry Gustafson, played a more prominent and passionate role in the debate in parliament on this bill than on almost any other piece of legislation during his long career. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has become a player in the New Zealand media industry once again with News Corp buying a 14.9 per cent stake in Sydney-based APN News & Media. that what happened on January 6 2021 was nothing less than an attempted coup, promoted and encouraged by the president himself and his media allies like Murdoch who, through Fox News, has probably done more damage to US democracy than any other individual. International newswires. Ellis said he understood the 20 per cent of APN stock that had been released by INM and Baycliffe and not acquired by News Corp was being marketed to institutional investors. moniker of populist during the electoral cycle was Winston Peters. For a profile of Murdoch's life and work: Designscape 91 . His final tweets in 2016 were a series of fat-fingered empty replies and this: No more tweets for ten days or ever! And its hard to imagine him being engaged, if hes even aware, of the Australian newspaper hiring a reporter or two in New Zealand. 1,122. The scandal, revealing illegal activity on a near-industrial scale, had engulfed the paper and the wider company, and dominated British headlines for many months. The Manat Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage advises New Zealands Minister for Broadcasting and Media, Kris Faafoi, on media policy. Labour leader Norman Kirk railed against an obnoxious, iniquitous, repressive bill. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. "One thing that still intrigues me is where that will go. Little wonder, then, that a less violent local headline this month, Murdoch plots New Zealand return, sent a shiver down spines. Murdoch (/ m r d k / MUR-dok, UK also /-d x /-dkh) is an Irish/Scottish given name, as well as a surname. Victoria University media studies lecturer Peter Thompson said it looked more like a corporate play by News Corp than an attempt to influence APN's editorial. He controls not only major media and governments, but also owns Zondervan & Nelson, publishers of bibles, including modern editions of the King James Bible, with certain alterations and omissions. Investors and executives expect Comcast might yet make another, better offer to Murdoch, which could force Disney's hand yet again. To keep up with our latest fact checks, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Developing marketing campaigns across EDM platforms and social media accounts. Not long after Iger drove away from that conversation (and after other meetings Murdoch and his sons held with Verizon and Comcast), the two men sketched out a deal that involves Murdoch selling the bulk of the company to Disney, but retaining a large stake in the combined entity. Were not immune, he said, adding that the 1,000 people who attended an election launch for one of Advance NZs co-leaders wasnt nothing., Farrar said the accepted range of political discourse had widened as a result of the partys campaign: There was strength there which is ripe for plucking.. It also owned several provincial newspapers. In addition, former Fox News executive and Sean Hannity confidant Bill Shine is expected to take the job of White House deputy chief of staff in charge of communications, a role that only adds to the personal connections between Trump and the Murdoch-controlled news network. * June 17, 2022 5.15pm: Edit made to clarify the events involving Sky News Australia following the Christchurch attacks in 2019. It is far better than having a hedge fund or investment company with no knowledge of the industry buy in.". In 2015, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp took (shortly) a major stake in the company. Feared even by Trump, a man impervious to normal human emotion. The text in the post reads: Asked why New Zealand does not suffer from the rage of older white men like in other western Anglo countries, PM Jacinda Adern (sic) replied, Because weve never allowed Rupert Murdoch to set up a media outlet here. The guy has wreaked havoc on civil society in the US.. NEWS HOUND: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has taken a stake in APN News & Media. Those who have worked closely with Murdoch attest to his rolled-up-sleeves attention to detail, to the journalism running in his veins, and to his insistence, even as he became one of the most powerful media moguls the world has seen, that he was an outsider (a self-assessment, incidentally, he shares with Trump). It was the worst day of my life, intoned Logan. Inventor, pharmacist, entrepreneur, manufacturer. * AAP FactCheck is an accredited member of the International Fact-Checking Network. Rudd said that his. There's a big problem with Murdoch media no one is talking about - how it treats women leaders. of any kind or not, unless you have the prior written permission of AAP. Trump was by numerous accounts glued to the channel in the White House. Bestriding the worlds of media, business and politics across the western world, Murdoch the press baron embodies the Machiavellian maxim that it is better to be feared than loved. With his latest move, Murdoch may have engineered the same kind of escape for his company. INL was created following the merger of The Dominion and the Evening Post in 1974. James, who is center-left politically, will no longer be associated with it. Social media users are sharing a fabricated quote attributed to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about not allowing Rupert Murdoch to set up a media outlet in her country. News Corp sold a 7.5 per cent stake in rival trans-Tasman media firm Fairfax Media in 2007. His titles stood ready to lift a sail and catch the popular wind. Like Fox News, Sky News Australia typically gets noticed less for its news output than its voluble night-time hosts. Thu, 03 Nov 2022. Donate. APN's assets include New Zealand newspaper and radio business NZME, publisher of the New Zealand Herald. Other than generic competition laws concerning market concentration, there are no rules limiting overseas investment or cross-media ownership., Dr Merja Myllylahti, a senior lecturer in media studies at the Auckland University of Technology and co-director of their research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD), told AAP FactCheck in an email: As far as I know Murdoch has not been banned to own media in New Zealand, that is a silly suggestion.. For an interview with Murdoch: O'Neill, P. (1995) "A man for all inventions", The Timaru Herald, May 13. She is the first woman to regularly produce political cartoons for New Zealand mainstream media, and draws the cartoon cat Munro who accompanies the daily crossword in Fairfax newspapers. The move has been expected for many months, especially after April's disposal of all IN's . And its about fear. Starting in the 1960s Mr Murdochs News Limited had invested in INL or Independent Newspapers Limited, a New Zealand media company founded in 1906. By his own reckoning, Rupert Murdoch was supposed to die a fortnight ago, on a Tuesday afternoon. Papua New Guinea. That approach contrasts the public opposition Trump voiced to the AT&T purchase of Time Warner, which owns CNN. In 2007, Murdochs acquisition of the Wall Street Journal provided a long-sought authoritative newspaper in the US, a vehicle with which to take on the loathed New York Times, and the high-minded equivalent of his newspapers the Times and the Australian. Before 1996:Michael Horton was managing director of Wilson & Horton when the family-controlled company owned the NZ Herald. Joining a groaning shelf of Murdoch books, it details claims of fraternal fallings-out, and speculates about the possibility of his siblings conspiring to wrest control of the media business away from their brother after Ruperts death. We have a functioning political system, we have one house of parliament and a neutral public service, Farrar said. on overseas purchases of media entities that have an impact on New Zealands media plurality, but that should be a breeze. It would be the last time he'd appear on a rugby field. The celebration of Florida governor Ron Desantis romping to victory was an unsubtle dig at Donald Trump, against whom he is expected to run for the presidential nomination. ), No, Aotearoa New Zealand has not banned any media entities owned by Rupert Murdoch from operating in the country, Emily Fabling, deputy chief executive for policy and performance of the Manat Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage, told Check Your Fact in an email. David Farrar, the founder of Curia Market Research, Nationals polling firm, also asks the right or wrong direction question and has recorded a strong net positive result since 2008 meaning people mostly thought the country was traveling the right way. And its hard to imagine him being engaged, if hes even aware, of the Australian newspaper hiring a reporter or two in New Zealand. It was different for Andy Coulson, another former editor. Trump was by numerous accounts glued to the channel in the White House. Such sentiment allowed populist movements to gain momentum, Farrar said, something that contented New Zealanders had mostly avoided. Aotearoa New Zealand does not regulate ownership of media organisations or ban individuals from operating a media business in the country., Mr Murdoch is not the director of any company currently registered in New Zealand, said a spokesperson for the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in an email to Check Your Fact. Sky TV was launched in NZ in 1990 and while News Corp became a dominant shareholder in the late 1990s, in 2013 it sold off its stake in the company. He too claimed ignorance, saying he didnt know about the practice when he left the Murdoch empire to become chief spin-doctor for David Cameron, the man he would join at the apex of British power in Downing Street. The morning Disney announced the agreement with Fox, Trump, who had sought assurances from Murdoch that he wasn't going to sell Fox News, called Murdoch to congratulate him on the deal. Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp and co-chairman of 21st Century Fox, in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 10, 2018. News Corp has owned stakes in New Zealand media companies in the past, including television provider Sky and New Zealand Media and Entertainment, which owns newspapers, radio stations and websites, according to a report from the Auckland University of Technology's research centre for Journalism, Media, and Democracy. Politicians and parties that shared Murdochs free-market worldview, that smoothed the regulatory way, were rewarded; opponents were lambasted or lampooned. Malcolm Turnbull found himself the target of attack from Murdoch papers during his time as Australian prime minister, despite leading a party of the centre-right. Rupert Murdoch, the 87-year-old founder and co-executive chairman of 21st Century Fox and News Corp, and Bob Iger, the 67-year-old chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, met last August at Murdoch's Moraga vineyard in the Bel Air hills of Los Angeles and discussed the myriad challenges their multibillion-dollar corporations faced, according to two people familiar with the discussion. Phone hacking was not the point, he told me for a Listener feature. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has become a player in the New Zealand media industry once again with News Corp buying a 14.9 per cent stake in Sydney-based APN News & Media. By supporting AAP with your contribution you are backing a team of dedicated, objective journalists to continue this work. The tenor of Australian politics is palpably harsher and more hostile, its culture entwined in inflamed symbiosis with the Murdoch press. Thats corrosive; 40 years of negative feeling, Farrar said of the United States. But dont recline your seat. The epithet above , is not my hyperbole, but Joe Bidens. Peters told the Guardian ahead of the vote that it was time for the end of that nonsense that somehow populism is a suspicious category of person. theorised the fabricated quote might have stemmed from commentator David Cormacks assessment that a huge reason that our politics is not so extremely polarised and so far out there is because we no longer have Murdoch-owned press in New Zealand, and its never taken a foothold., It is hard to argue with that. Murdoch attempted scale when the company tried to acquire Time Warner a few years ago, but was rebuffed. Under the terms of the proposed deals Murdoch is entertaining, he will hold on to Fox News and Fox Sports 1, the Fox broadcast network and its television stations. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won Saturday's general election in a landslide and secured three more years in power after the country stopped the spread of coronavirus.. With more . Murdoch has been a staunch, even romantic advocate of print newspapers, and kept alive a number of quality titles through long periods of loss-making. Dow Jones & Company. A post shared on Facebook claims media mogul Rupert Murdoch is banned from owning or operating any media platforms in New Zealand. Plenty has transpired since. On the contrary, the issue at this stage is do we want Murdoch to take over and eliminate our newspapers?. Based in the world-renowned Gimblett Gravels region of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, William Murdoch's organic vineyard and winery produce wines that are beautifully elegant, yet powerful . Newspaper groups now have to stick together rather than tear each other apart," he said. Reuters theorised the fabricated quote might have stemmed from commentator David Cormacks assessment that a huge reason that our politics is not so extremely polarised and so far out there is because we no longer have Murdoch-owned press in New Zealand, and its never taken a foothold.. 60. Trump and Murdoch are pictured together in New York in 2017 5 / 7 Trump, Rupert's second wife Anna and the Australian media magnate are pictured at a party together in 1993 A post shared on a Facebook page (screenshot here) claims that you do realise that Murdoch has been banned from having a media platform in New Zealand. Other versions of the claim are here and here. Cormacks comments were for an October 2020 Guardian feature looking at Aotearoas relatively low level of populism, conspiracy theory and Covid-19 scepticism. A new study of six Murdoch-owned newspapers in Australia reveals that on average eight negative stories appeared about Islam or Muslims per day - and that's just a tiny fraction of the billionaire's global media empire. After a day at the Old Bailey, I caught up with Nick Davies, the Guardian journalist who broke the story and went on to literally, about it. Google ad management. Then, larger players such as Netflix started poaching major creative talent - for example Ryan Murphy, who had been at Fox's FX, in a reported $300 million deal. In 2019, major New Zealand media . APN's assets. Murdoch has a direct line to Trump and close relationships with several Fox News personalities who act as unofficial advisers to the White House. Rupert Murdoch was a disruptor long before that word became part of the Ted Talk lexicon. "We own no news media in NZ but. [4] After his father 's death in 1952, Murdoch took over the running of The News, a small Adelaide newspaper owned by his father. He is listed as number 71 on the. Dr Thompson said NZs media ownership rules are considered fairly flexible. Aside from the big payday, it is a seminal moment for Murdoch, who is turning over the power to run the company he has spent his career building. Trump and Murdoch talk weekly and sometimes daily, according to people close to both men. There are worse places to slide into semi-retirement. Choose from a number of subscription models to not only gain access to high-quality fact-based news on your desktop or mobile device, but also to show your support for Australia's only not-for-profit newswire. "They may not always get along with each other, but they are smart kids.". TRUMPTY DUMPTY, it read, pointing the finger of blame at a man perched eggily on a wall. International newswires fact checking services have repeatedly moved this year to quash false claims that his companies are banned in New Zealand. The name is derived from old Irish Gaelic words mur, meaning "sea" and murchadh, meaning "sea warrior". @jburnmurdoch . The public also rejected some political hopefuls rallying cries to populism, conspiracy theories and scepticism about Covid-19. MRD WEB + Digital Marketing. Murdoch's decision to sell part of his empire is the end of an era. His reputation is such, however, that even in absence Murdoch radiates controversy. But the historic victory of Arderns centre-left party on polling day its best result in five decades, winning 64 of parliaments 120 seats was not the only measure by which New Zealand bucked global trends in its vote. , they had grown to cover most of the country as Independent Newspapers Ltd. In 2000, he received the New Zealand "Order of Merit". Murdoch outfoxed Thomson (from whom, years later, he would purchase the establishment title he so coveted, the Times of London), purchasing a number of shares on the open market, and secured a dominant stake of almost 30% in the Wellington Publishing Company. In the US, Murdochs influence continued to grow. I made a flippant comment that then quite reasonably was construed as suggesting something that I didnt intend to convey, he told Radio New Zealand on Sunday. standard terms and conditions. New Zealand has not banned Rupert Murdoch or News Corp from media ownership, government representatives and local media experts confirmed to AAP FactCheck. Another high-profile lawmaker who has dabbled inadvertently, he said in conspiracy theory rhetoric admitted to his huge mistake the day after the vote. It is hard to argue with that. Murdoch - it seems - is intent on avoiding that fate. In the year 2019 he. Freer pointed to mysterious, secret, hole-in-the-corner negotiations with the prime minister that saw Murdoch, a hard-headed businessman, forgo some of his voting privileges. This is a story about power, and the abuse of power., He said: Its about the links between the Murdoch network and the police and the government, the corporate world, and to a lesser extent the press regulator. Thomas added that Peterss naturally rebellious, oppositional tone had not worked once he was part of the government. News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate chaired since 1952 by Australia-born American Rupert Murdoch. False. Her children live primarily in London, and Murdoch has been spending considerable time there recently. Last Modified Date: December 02, 2022. Thomson added that Murdoch is as vigorous in his pursuit of new projects as he has ever been. Feared even by Trump, a man impervious to normal human emotion. 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