{"id":40688,"date":"2025-05-05T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/as-australias-election-result-reminds-us-news-corp-no-longer-has-the-power-to-sway-voters-margaret-simons\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:21:32","slug":"as-australias-election-result-reminds-us-news-corp-no-longer-has-the-power-to-sway-voters-margaret-simons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/as-australias-election-result-reminds-us-news-corp-no-longer-has-the-power-to-sway-voters-margaret-simons\/","title":{"rendered":"As Australia\u2019s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters | Margaret Simons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The declining power of the Murdoch press is part of the wider story of the waning influence of mainstream media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\"> free app<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\"> daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s old news, but people are only just beginning to believe it.<\/p>\n<p>Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation has, for some time now, been impotent when it comes to affecting the outcomes of elections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/06\/as-australias-election-result-reminds-us-news-corp-no-longer-has-the-power-to-sway-voters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The declining power of the Murdoch press is part of the wider story of the waning influence of mainstream media Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It\u2019s old news, but people are only just beginning to believe it. Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation has, for some time now, been impotent when &#8230; <a title=\"As Australia\u2019s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters | Margaret Simons\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/as-australias-election-result-reminds-us-news-corp-no-longer-has-the-power-to-sway-voters-margaret-simons\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about As Australia\u2019s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters | Margaret Simons\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}