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“These are not uncalculating politicians. By poking a stick inside this particular cage they are making a meaningful statement about media power: how it is evolving and diffusing; how the spectre of Murdoch no longer acts as a curb on politicians doing the right thing; how new media is recalibrating the unhealthy influence of the old media establishment; and how political leaders now feel confident enough to believe that the machinations of one newspaper empire can no longer unseat governments, destroy careers or turn political tides.“
— Crikey, on Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard openly criticising Rupert Murdoch’s Courier-Mail and Daily Telegraph. (via rachelhills)