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The Digital Media Bargaining Code, brainchild of Josh Frydenberg, unopposed by Labor, is lining the pockets of the big end of town. What’s the scam?

The scam has been exposed by Chris Janz, former publisher at Nine Entertainment. Janz told ABC Radio National’s Medialand program last week that the money from (the code) mostly went to the shareholders of Australia’s biggest media companies or was used to pay off their debts.

“…Google and Facebook were encouraged to do deals with effectively the big end of town. The bulk of the cash flowed to the big end of town. I was running one of those at the time. It was fantastic … the reality is, though, the money flowed to shareholders or flowed to retire debt.”

Chris Janz, former Nine Media publisher to ABC Medialand

As pointed out by MWM and others at the time the code was put in place, Janz says, “It wasn’t guaranteed to be spent on the journalism.”

It was just used to increase the profit, and very little flowed to new entrants.

Janz is now the CEO of Capital Brief, one of those new entrants.

https://michaelwest.com.au/the-digital-media-bargaining-scam-exposed/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

killing the news....

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera reported the death of five of its employees, including reporter Anas Al-Sharif, as a result of an Israeli attack on a journalists' tent near a hospital in Gaza City.

Earlier, the Israel Defense Forces claimed a strike on Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, whom they accused of working for the Palestinian movement Hamas.

"Five Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital," the channel said on X.

In late July, Al Jazeera rejected Israel's accusations that its journalists, including Anas Al-Sharif, were working for Hamas, calling it a campaign to justify the killings of these people.

"A short while ago, in Gaza City, the IDF struck the terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as a journalist for the Al Jazeera network. Anas Al-Sharif served as the head of a terrorist cell in the Hamas terrorist organization and was responsible for advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops," the IDF said on Telegram.

The IDF published a link to documents allegedly confirming Al-Sharif's involvement with Hamas.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20250811/israeli-strike-kills-five-al-jazeera-journalists-in-gaza---reports-1122591662.html

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.