EDITORIAL | The Murdoch media like to be seen as champions of free speech. For any Murdoch to sue a small website for saying bad things about him is astonishing. | The Age's View
This is a story that, in many respects, is of David and Goliath proportions. On one side is Fox News boss Lachlan Murdoch, one of the world’s most powerful media executives, and on the other is, a small, progressive news website run by long-time local media proprietor and former editor Eric Beecher.on the US congressional hearings investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021.
The other embarrassing aspect to this case is that Lachlan could not have sued a similar website in the US for defamation because the United States protects the free speech he champions. In response to Murdoch’s threat of defamation,has claimed that the Fox News boss would struggle to prove serious harm when similar accusations to what it published are regularly made in the US media.
The media is far from perfect, but Australia’s defamation laws are a serious brake to heated commentary – as the Crikey piece was – as well as substantial investigative journalism in the public interest.
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