Rupert Murdoch has fuelled polarisation of society, Barack Obama says

Former US President Barack Obama in Balmoral, Sydney, on Monday. The former US president Barack Obama has suggested that Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has led to greater polarisation in western societies through news coverage designed to “make people angry and resentful”.

Speaking to a capacity crowd of about 9,000 people at Sydney’s Aware Super Theatre on Tuesday night, Obama mixed childhood memories of transiting through Australia as a child with pointed observations about the current political discourse and the rise of China .

Asked by Australia’s former foreign minister and moderator, Julie Bishop , about the history of bipartisanship in the […]

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