Turnbull: Ad-libbed ‘demented plutocrat’ jibe not aimed at Rupert Murdoch
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has denied he was referring to News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch when he referred to a “demented plutocrat” during his speech to launch The Saturday Paper.
During the speech on Friday night Turnbull repeatedly went off-script and made several jibes which appeared to be at the expense of News Corp’s flagship newspaper The Australian and Murdoch.
After lavishing praise on The Saturday Paper’s founder Morry Schwartz and his contribution to Australia’s “intellectual life”, Turnbull quipped: “You are not some demented plutocrat pouring more and more money into a loss making venture that is just going to peddle your opinions.”
I am hoping The Saturday Paper will do well as an alternative to the Fairfax/News Corp gossip garbage. I tried purchasing their first issue but was told by the newsagent they had sold out of all copies. Either it was very popular or there is a problem with distribution.
Of course he wasn’t referring to Rupert.
Yeah, right.
Malcolm Turnbull will never ever be the leader of the Coalition.
It is my firm belief he only joined the Liberal so he could be PM.
Reader, I’m guessing you live in one of those “shit don’t stink” inner-city suburbs.
A tremendous undertaking, launching a newspaper, especially in these times. Yet it offered so few surprises, nothing markedly different from what you might expect elsewhere, and certainly far less comprehensive than the established weekend papers. I’d be staggered if can operate at a profit.
Good for Malcom. He would get my vote, any day
Sadly, the actual paper reads like the somewhat soggy organ of a demented plutocrat. Just like the Oz, but with different “essayists”.
Will someone please put the news back into news media?
Won’t Turncoat just resign from the Liberal Party and formally join the Labor.
It would make everyone much happier.
Turnball was referring to Murdoch, surely? Who on earth else would he have been referring to? The Australian has lost every inch of credibility that it ever had. Tis a one sided ghastly read.
Turnbull*
Hey, you mean to say my news is limited?
malcolm forever <3