PUPPET-MASTER

From Andrew Bolt's blog on the pending muzzling of Australia's free press. This is very dangerous people, and we should be doing all that we can to resist it.

Communications Minister Steve Conroy half-heartedly claims that he’s resisted Greens demands that his media inquiry go after the News Ltd papers and their owner:

Conroy stopped short of asking Finkelstein to examine media ownership, which was identified as a key issue by the powerful Greens party, a key partner in the government’s coalition rule.
Despite a stinging attack in which he accused “some organs” of News Limited, of “running a campaign against this government”, Conroy denied the inquiry was a “witch-hunt” against Murdoch’s firm.
“In terms of a witch-hunt to demand that we break up News Limited, the fact is we are not interested,” he said.

But Greens leader Bob Brown, whose idea this was inquiry was, says Murdoch’s ownership will indeed be investigated:

TONY JONES:  It’s the second term of reference; it talks about the impact of technological change on the business model of newspapers and asks how diversity can be enhanced in this changed environment. Is that what you see as the foot in the door to examine newspaper ownership?
BOB BROWN: No, it’s not a foot in the door, Tony, it’s the door wide open. And of course, the commissioners will be able to look at the concentration of media ownership which has 70 per cent of the newspapers in the hands of one corporation, that’s the Murdoch empire here in Australia; nothing like that in the rest of the world.

Gosh, who to believe? The Government or its puppet-master?