[BITList] The miners media plan

[John Feltham]

So this is what it is all about.

When is the Republican Party of the US opening for business in Australia?

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Check out the video the mining industry never expected you to see: 

http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan 

You simply have to see this video to believe it. 

This week mining billionaire Gina Rinehart became the largest shareholder in Fairfax, having already bought a stake in Channel Ten. But this new video reveals this move is bigger than one woman’s ambition – it’s part of a coordinated and very deliberate strategy, with climate skeptic ‘Lord’ Monkton seen here advising a room full of mining executives on how the industry must gain control of Australia’s media. 

Can you help share this video so all Australians understand what's really going on in the mining industry? 

http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan 

We've seen what happened in the USA when coordinated, super-wealthy corporate interests set about deliberately reshaping the media landscape to suit their agendas. It's bad news for democracy and it's bad news for the issues we care about. And while this most recent purchase was a brazen move, it's hardly the first time a mining industry executive has used their vast wealth to push an agenda. 

Last year, Rinehart helped set up a new lobby group calling for a special ‘Northern Economic Zone’ demanding lower tax, government concessions and cheap migrant labor from Asia. She helped bankroll the campaign against Government efforts to ask the mining industry to pay their fair share of tax through the Mining Super Profits tax and she's been actively sponsoring prominent climate skeptics like Monckton, Ian Plimer and Andrew Bolt, who got his own TV show weeks after she invested in Channel Ten. 

You won't want to miss seeing what's really going on. 

Click here to watch a recording they didn't expect you to see, and share it far and wide. 

Thanks for getting the word out, the GetUp team 

PS: Gina could really just be the tip of the iceberg. Thirty six hours ago fellow billionaire mining magnate and the Liberal Party’s biggest donor, Clive Palmer, flippantly said that he loved the idea of following Rinehart's lead, telling Lateline: “That looks attractive, Fairfax, doesn't it? Fairfax looks very exciting. You could have an east-west play with Fairfax. Gina should come from the west and buy 15 per cent and we could buy 30 per cent from the eastern side of Australia and really get the place humming again.”1 Get the real story and spread the word here: www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan 

1 ABC Lateline. Clive Palmer talks to Lateline, February 03, 2012 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-02/clive-palmer-talks-to-lateline/3808642?section=qld 




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