Tag: Billionaires
Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME –...
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
New Zealand-based Canadian billionaire James Grenon owes the people of this country an immediate explanation of his intentions regarding media conglomerate...
Union wary of Canadian billionaire Jim Grenon’s NZ media influence
By Susan Edmunds, RNZ News money correspondent
The Aotearoa New Zealand union representing many of NZME's journalists says it is "deeply worried" by a billionaire's...
Manipulated media: The weapon of the Right
The re-election of Donald Trump is proof that the Right's most powerful weapon is media manipulation, ensuring the public sphere is not engaged in...
US elections: Editorial writers at LA Times, Washington Post resign after...
Writers resign from The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times in protest over the blocking of their editorials by the billionaire owners. Video: Democracy...
Jo Spratt: ‘Free’ covid jabs are making the mega-rich richer
COMMENTARY: By Jo Spratt
When this novel coronavirus first swept the world last year, it was quickly obvious global vaccination was the only way out.
Governments...
Kasun Ubayasiri: How will ruthless billionaire posturing by Rupert and Zuckerberg...
COMMENT: By Kasun Ubayasiri in Brisbane
It has indeed been a few strange days for Australian news media. Apparently, monopolies are bad if they are...
We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts...
ANALYSIS: By Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne
Among the many hard truths exposed by covid-19 is the huge disparity...