AUSTRALIA's media freedom is slipping because of its "outrageous" anti-terror laws and lack of protection for reporters' sources, experts say. Australia is ranked 28th in the annual Press Freedom Index released this week by the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders.
Australia's ranking is the same as last year's and puts it behind New Zealand (ranked 7th), the United Kingdom (23), Canada (13) and Scandinavian countries.
Iceland, Luxembourg and Norway were jointly named the nations with the most press freedom, while Eritrea was named as the country with the least media freedom.
Rupert Murdoch and wife Wendy Deng
The Mayne Report: Rupert ducks our questions
After twice promising to take general questions following his formal address, when the time came Rupert Murdoch promptly shut down the meeting without explanation. This still this hasn’t been reported in any News Corp newspaper throughout the world.
More on the Sun King: The New York Times is reporting that Rupert Murdoch has complained to the author of his upcoming biography -- a book called The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch -- that "it contains some extremely damaging misstatements of fact.
Murdoch's main complaint is that the book suggests he "is at times embarrassed by Fox News, which he owns ... and that he often shares 'the general liberal apoplexy,' as Mr. Wolff writes in the book, toward Fox News and its perceived conservative slant". Michael Wolff actually spent some 50 hours interviewing the mogul on the record.
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