![]() ![]() In the same program, on the basis of a fragment of a translated speech in China, Murray suggested the Biden family could be colluding with the Chinese Communist party, which he insisted was “not a conspiracy theory”, and which is not being probed by the media. Paul Murray on 8 December insisting that the US election was “still contested”, Trump had not yet definitively lost, and those who disagreed were engaged in “vote fraud denialism”. ![]() And he’s hardly alone among Sky broadcasters in pushing Trumpist conspiracy theories. Thanks to Sky News Australia, 461,764 people and counting have been exposed to Newman’s explication of it.Īs Wilson reported in November, Jones has been particularly successful in terms of traffic. Promoted by Trump acolytes such as Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, and Diamond and Silk, it is sure to be deployed against whichever much-needed measures that the Biden administration might take in relation to climate change. ![]() The Great Reset theory is, in reality “ a hodgepodge of one-world-=government fears that has gained steam in the wake of Biden’s win”, which, in the manner of QAnon, remixes elements of longstanding conspiracy theories that misconstrue phenomena such as “ Agenda 21” and the Bilderberg Group. In response, Jones reminded Newman that “I think your words were, ‘a fascist experiment being pushed by controlling elites’,” to which Newman replied “I don’t think that’s an exaggeration.” Now that they’ve got everybody obedient in terms of not leaving the house and doing what they have to do, and we’ve seen actions from the police in Victoria which are unthinkable in this country, there’s a segue from there into making sure that we control our emissions, that we do what we’re told to do with regard to what they call the Green New Deal.” Some of it is racist conspiracy theory, and Sky’s new business model means that Australia is effectively exporting it Newman responded with baroque conspiracy-theorising, worth quoting at length: “The Great Reset is going to be the segue from the pandemic. At one point, Jones asked Newman for a “quick one to my viewers about what’s called the Great Reset”, which he claimed that “everyone’s writing to me” about. Though their conversation ranged well to the right of mainstream, electoral conservative politics, the rhetoric was instantly recognisable. ![]() On 3 December, for example, Alan Jones interviewed businessman and former ABC chairman, Maurice Newman, on topics related to Trump’s electoral defeat and the incoming Biden administration. And a look at some recent videos posted by the channel shows that some of this content crosses the line into conspiracy theories. This, surely, means that the social media companies must share some responsibility for the content they are profiting from. Importantly, as Wilson pointed out, Sky’s success is partly premised on partnerships with YouTube and Facebook, who are sharing the spoils of the eyeballs and advertising money the new focus has yielded. On YouTube, in the last month, Sky attracted 100,000 or so new subscribers and now has 1.06 million in total, putting it just behind the ABC at 1.2 million. This has attracted a large international audience to Sky’s online offerings. ![]()
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