Dr Gideon Polya is a Melbourne-based Australian scientist, academic, artist, writer and human rights and climate change activist (see: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya180711A.htm ).
Dr Gideon Polya on “Boycott Murdoch media” (2011): “The indignant global response to the phone hacking and police bribery by UK employees of Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire obscures the awful major crimes of this Evil Empire: (a) promotion of the War on Terror and genocide-ignoring non-reportage of the 12 million deaths associated with US and US Alliance wars in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan and (b) anti-science non-reportage and false reporting about the worsening Climate Crisis that if unaddressed will kill an estimated 10 billion non-Europeans in a 21st century Climate Genocide. Accordingly, all decent people must boycott Murdoch media to save the Planet… Rational risk management vital for the safety of society successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis (this involving the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. However this is typically perverted by (a) lies, non-reportage and censorship, (b) anti-science spin involving the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position and (c) blame and shame, with the ultimate obscenity being war. The Murdoch Media pervert rational risk management in this fashion, mist notably by (1) promoting the Iraq War and the Afghan War and non-reportage of the resultant carnage (violent deaths and avoidable deaths from war-imposed carnage now totaling 4.6 million and 5.0 million, respectively) (see “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ and “Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ) and (2) irresponsible climate change denialism, noting that unaddressed man-made climate change is set to kill 10 billion people this century (see “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ). Decent people must Boycott Murdoch Media as a danger to Humanity but we should also hold other Mainstream media accountable as illustrated below… The World is facing an unprecedented climate disaster that top climate scientist predict is set to kill about 10 billion people this century (see “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ). Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We can no longer afford lies, spin, non-reportage and censorship over man-made climate change and other huge threats to Humanity. Decent people should boycott Murdoch media (that are evidently beyond redemption) thereby helping a transition back to Democracy from Murdochracy and Lobbyocracy in the English-speaking World. However we must also resolutely expose such perversions in the remaining Mainstream media.so that our societies can apply rational risk management to major threats to Humanity.” [1].
Gideon Polya, “Boycott Murdoch Media To Save Planet”, Countercurrents, 18 July 2011: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya180711A.htm .