BLOG 6:#Greg Said:

In 2003 Murdoch was questioned as to whether he uses his political influence over our newspapers and television, in reply he claimed it as being ‘nonsense’ (Center for American Press 2004). But taking a close look at his previous records it seems that Murdoch has imparted his far –right agenda throughout his whole media empire. The Guardian newspaper reported that Rupert Murdoch gave his “full backing to war, praising George Bush” as acting “morally “and “correctly” not only this but Murdoch praised Tony Blair as “full of guts” for his participation within the war process(Guardian 2003).
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It is clearly seen from these statements that Murdoch is not only placing his impressive tactics within his political views but he is leading the American war in Iraq via his power through the media. Like his father, Rupert Murdoch is using his existing political powers to gain commercial favors from the government (Gentile 2003). As a result the bigger his empire gets the more that the print media industry will be highly concentrated as a result.Greater concentration of ownership will most definitely consolidate the power of the media cooperation, strengthen the influence they have on government policies, and weaken the power of investigative journalism (The Australian Collaboration 2009). This will in turn promote homogeneity, which will affect the content that goes into the press (Australian Parliament House 1992). Herman and Chomsky(2002, p. 14) further imply this by stating “the dominant media firms are quite large businesses who are subject to sharp constraints and have important common interests with other major cooperation’s, banks and government. This will affect choices”. Consequently this most certainly reducing the quality of reporting in the Australian media and affecting the way print media is structured.