Reference :- The very media that the petition refers to claim the petition has been manipulated .
Dear senior staff at News Corp ,
This is a serious matter , and warrants a thorough investigation . (Younger readers might not recognize the word ,"thorough " which has been recently superseded by the word "robust ". Although the new word does not have the same meaning precisely . A " thorough " investigation might be achieved despite being underfunded and handicapped . It might succeed against overwhelming odds . The term " robust " gives an impression of forcefulness and power , two of the main ingredients in any recipe for corruption . )
Anyway , that's enough obscure linguistic pontification for now . The point is that this petition has been found to have fake signatures , many apparently forged by what you call " Bangladeshi bots " . It's bad enough that robots signed the petition , but these are not even kosher R2-D2 or C-3PIO robots . They are not even lovable rogue robots like Bender from Futurama . Frighteningly, they are foreign robots , from a weird and inferior country which no doubt wishes to destroy our freedoms and way of life through sheer vindictiveness .
Mind you , the numbers are not great . Perhaps Bangladesh is too poor to afford many robots , since the fake signatures are thought to number about 1000 or so . This means that 99.8% of the signatures on the petition are fair dinkum . Sadly, it does not lend strength to your argument that the petition is a fraud , but you can still resort to the fear tactics that have served you so well to date .
My advice is that you reference the fact that Bangladesh is ruled by a socialist government . Nothing sparks fear faster than the term " socialist ".
A useful headline could be :-
" Foreign Socialists help former Labor PM rig petition . "
The article that follows could highlight the importance of keeping the media free of government regulations in a democratic society . You need no advice for that , since it will practically write itself . It is a fundamental principal of capitalism that governments should never enforce regulations that distort the balance of free market forces .
By the way , how are you going with your recent lobbying ? I see you want the government to introduce regulations that force Facebook and Google to pay you royalties . And fair enough too . Those high tech guys must think that the media are just a bloody free for all .
Somebody needs to teach them some rules .
Your comrade , Ken
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