Eric Beecher says he was ‘shocked’ by what he discovered during his time as editor in chief of News Corp’s Melbourne newspapers
Eric Beecher, who was employed by Rupert Murdoch and sued by his son Lachlan, says media moguls should be held accountable.Eric Beecher, who was employed by Rupert Murdoch and sued by his son Lachlan, says media moguls should be held accountable.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup At a meeting attended by Murdoch, editors suggested the Melbourne Herald run a campaign on solutions to the problem of teenagers defacing trains with graffiti. Beecher claims Murdoch liked the idea and suggested the paper could promote “capital punishment”.
“Freedom of the press is seen as an important component of democracy but on the other hand there are media owners who have almost no obligations or almost no regulation almost at all, apart from defamation laws. Lachlan claimed in a lawsuit that an article by Crikey’s political editor Bernard Keane conveyed a meaning that he illegally conspired with Donald Trump to “incite a mob with murderous intent to march on the Capitol” in Washington DC on 6 January 2021.
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