how I left Murdoch's war machine and survived ! [View All]

[WearyOne]

I have a confession.

Up until 18 months ago I worked for Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd in Australia. Not as a journalist but in a capacity that was directly involved in bringing in the financial rewards News Ltd reaps from advertising.

Before the illegal invasion of Iraq I began to feel uneasy the way the Murdoch dominated print media in Australia was gung-ho in promoting the war, which our Prime Minister in Australia John Howard as a George Bush 'deputy sheriff 'slavishly followed his master into without consulting his people ( the first time in our history a Prime Minister committed the country to war without a people's mandate).

Within a few months of the 'shock & awe' campaign I could no longer stomach working directly for an organization which, as the writer John Pilger : http://www.resist.com.au/comments/c68.asp: has pointed out a number of times, was an active promoter of this war by it's constant repetition of the lies used to justify it. In fact Pilger goes as far to say that without Murdoch's News Ltd support via his media empire in Britain, the US and Australia, Bush & the Neocons could not have invaded Iraq.

I resigned telling my co-workers and supervisor the reason . Some laughed but many expressed a similar wish but pointed out the usual reasons they couldn't follow, mortgages,rent, family etc. But I had these as well.

I was immediately offered a well paid job with Murdoch's competitor the other Australia Media mogul Kerry Packer's PBL Publishing which
dominates television. I declined because they too helped promote Howard and his Bush led war.

It took a hard and stressful 12 months but now I work for myself and although I don't make the same money I feel free because I will only work with other corporations or individuals who hold the same ethics..which DU'ers express on here every day and which I have no need to explain. I've never been happier.

I urge all other workers on News Ltd world-wide empire : Fox News etc, to plan your exit now. Treat it like a military operation, even if it's going to be a year down the track. Plan your getaway from this evil empire because I know from experience, the brightest and best minds in this organization think like I do and like all the other members of this board. You're only there for money and you know
as well as I do this rapacious organization will replace you with a machine the minute it can.

And it can't go on forever.
Murdoch is an old man and his successors, his sons aren't up to the job. Five years ago Lachlan Murdoch as CEO of News Ltd in Australia ,in a cost cutting exercise, sent a directive around to journalists to cease using the Internet for reference because it wouldn't last .That's how in touch they are. And despite all appearances News Ltd is built on a sea of debt with moneymakers like Fox News propping up huge debt laden other areas of the corporation. His newspapers world-wide have declining circulations.


Now Rupert Murdoch is bleating about how he and the other handful of like-minded media barons in the USA must seize the initiative and grab hold of those Internet advertising dollars. This man isn't the media genius he is credited as. No doubt he paid afortune to a US marketing firm to write his speech and come up with this initiative.

Together we can stop this evil empire from continuing to spread
it's tentacles and it's influence on the White House.

( please appreciate I can't use my name for a number of personal reasons )