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Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 
“Rupert Murdoch has bowed to political and commercial pressure by ordering his Australian media outlets to stop promoting climate change denial and campaign for net-zero emissions instead.” – when it is, more or less too late.
Murdoch & his spawn (I refer to other ultra right whinge newspapers sich as the Torygraph in the UK, ditto the Daily Heil) have all done their part to delay action. They are culpable. At the moment, people are dying in their hundreds due to the climate disaster. When they start dying in their millions, those dying may care to reflect that it is the Murdoch family, the Rothermere family and the Barclay family (to name three) that are responsible (there are others elsewhere). But it is worth remembering that Murdoch owns large amounts of media in the Uk, USA and Australia. The Murdoch family, all of them, need to be held to account (ditto the others) for their actions. “I was only following orders” is not an excuse.
You make some excellent points. You are absolutely right.
Don’t rejoice too fast. Certainly News Corp Australia has confirmed it will ramp up its company-wide coverage of climate change next month, but still says its stable of commentators won’t be “muzzled”.
The executive chairman of News Corp Australasia, Michael Miller, says the mastheads will cover ‘all views’ and ‘not just the popular ones’, indicating the Murdoch empire may continue its pattern of climate science denial and ridicule towards climate action…The Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt, who describes global warming as a ‘cult of the elites’, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair, who says the climate emergency is ‘bogus’, will apparently be free to continue to undermine the science.
Actually, not rejoicing at all. But what you say about Miller, Bolt and Blair says it all.