ABC
Freedom: A Moving Feast
‘Freedom’ is getting a real workout in the Australian media nowadays. It’s a peculiarly American view of freedom, though – the Platonic, chiseled-into-granite view of the word. Hands instinctively go on hearts at its very mention.
Take the taste test and it is revealed as the Rupert/IPA flavour of freedom. In other words, it’s supposed stark and uncompromising nobility is in stark contrast to its ideological contingency. How else do you explain the shifting views of Murdoch’s loyal footservants? (more…)