Is Murdoch responsible for a single major PoD?

Murdoch's first international purchase was shares in(iirc) the Dominion, which is a NZ newspaper based in the capital, Wellington (now known as the Dominion Post), where he competed with a Canadian and a domestic buyer.

It is quite possible that if he had not done this, at this point, then the NZ newspaper consolidation would have happened rather differently. Although if he stays around as a big Australian player he is still likely to get NZ involved in his later pay tv or magazine units given that NZ has a high general degree of consolidation with Australian businesses.

If he goes entirely, or stays only in Australia, then NZ would have to find a new patron to push for pay tv as well as consolidation. This would be either British Telecom (owner of Clear), Telecom NZ, Telstra Australia (owner of TelstraClear) or the state broadcaster (BCNZ/TVNZ/RNZ)

Any of which would have a substantial impact on NZ's media in 2011, given that there are two large private (foreign/Australian owned or controlled) media companies and the state and pretty much nothing else but small regional independents
 
FOX news was the first to call Florida for Bush in 2000, all the other News networks went with FOX's lead and thus the recount was framed as "whiny Al won't give it up"

Fox News was the first to call Florida for Gore, while the polls were still open in the Florida panhandle.
 

Cook

Banned
Maybe in South Australia, but I've never read anything about the anti-death penalty campaign that sprung up at the time of Ronald Ryan being at all influenced by the events depicted in the movie Black And White. That was the closest thing to a national political movement that issue ever had.

Ryan was executed some eight years after Max Stuart’s conviction, national movements don’t spring up out of nowhere and the Stuart case is recognised as being significant to the abolition of the Death Penalty in Australia and as I said, Stuart’s appeal would have got nowhere without Murdock’s involvement; the Royal Commission even acknowledged that.
 
Ryan was executed some eight years after Max Stuart’s conviction, national movements don’t spring up out of nowhere


Gee, I wonder what big events were taking place in the Melbourne of the late sixties that could have supplied the volunteer activists for an overnnight save-Ryan-&-abolish-the-death-penalty grassroots campaign.:rolleyes:

Though I admit that if Stuart's lawyer David O'Sullivan had lived long enough after he moved to Victoria (he died in a car crash in 1965) he might well have joined with the likes of Barry Jones in becoming a leader of that movement.
 
Top