To get you started in a pro-American news outlet at Fox News, check out the local time for Shep Smith's news hour, he has big probs with Pres. Trump.
There's ALWAYS a liberal on Outnumbered and The Five.
Tucker Carlson always has a progressive or two drop by.
During business hours Fox News is straight news.
Tucker Carlson is the first of three partisan shows but none are as utterly one-sided as, say, Cuomo.
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This is NOT about conservative news sources. It is about foreigners co-opting America media to push an international neo-Nazi agenda.
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Based on the photo of him walking out of the Fox News office with his father, looks like Lachlan has been channeling Ray Donovan. Not to mention the bribes, payoffs, and threats.
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When will we begin see Murdoch & 'Fox News' as entities that are screaming 'fire' in a crowded theatre? And do something about it?
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What do the Murdochs want? They want to overthrow representative government everywhere in the world and restore a feudal "civilization" with themselves amongst the lords of the manor.
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When Rupert Murdoch is on his deathbed, I wonder if he will swell with pride in the pivotal role he played in the dumbing down of the citizenry in every market where his media empire dominated. He has become fabulously rich by exploiting the darkest impulses of humanity, by relentless fear-mongering and disinformation in support of his pinch-minded ideology. Who will mourn his passing?
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Those who mourned Ailes will mourn Murdoch.
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Thank you NYT, JonathanMahler and Jim Rutenberg for this excellent and informative article. Although I basically knew about Rupert Murdoch but had no idea the extend of their far reaching influence across the three continents.
This is very scary and just shows how easy it is for very wealthy and unscrupulous Machiavellian type individuals to influence weaker individuals to do their bidding and cause havoc. It seems no one is brave enough to stand up to these amoral individuals and intervene. Money surely can corrupt however, "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" oh how true.
Again, thank you for this very informative article.
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The Fairness Doctrine, abolished in 1987 by Reagan, certainly helped open the door to peddlers for profit like the Murdoch's.
Pitting his sons one against the other in a succession battle seems to have brought out their baser instincts, but not much else. The current generations of Murdoch's with more money than they will ever spend, and barely speaking to one another.......nice family legacy; they probably think it was worth it.
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Well, at least comments in Murdoch's papers, Wall Street Journal in particular, are allowed in real time, without first being screened by unseen, unnamed folks in the name of protecting readers from themselves. Plus, every story in the Wall Street Journal has contact information for the writer so you can send emails or otherwise provide feedback. No such opportunity exists in NYT. You can make a very legitimate argument that NYT, by this and other means, aims to control minds every bit as much as Murdoch. I don't happen to agree with Murdoch's political stances, but the truth is the truth: Murdoch doesn't censor people with differing viewpoints, NYT does. Hopefully, this comment will make it past the censors, I mean, screeners.
If you're going to live in a glass house...
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So when the Murdochs were trying to buy Sky they had to pull Fox News off the air in England because there were too many complaints that its content was "unfair and inaccurate." Even though they pulled Fox News off the air, however, the British authorities denied their bid for Sky because they would have "too much control over news" and they barred any Murdochs from being on Sky's board even though they owned a third of its shares.
We need laws like Britain has. Now that Fox News is in the hands of the worst of the worst (Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch) and plans to amp up its nationalist right-wing, anti-immigrant daytime line-up (adding to their prime-time hate-mongers) they are a threat to our security and our democracy. Fox News's anti-immigrant rhetoric, like that of its Australian counterpart, triggers violence against minorities and inspires people like the Australian who slaughtered a mosque full of Muslims.
Fox News is not just "unfair and inaccurate", it is dangerous. They lie about issues like abrupt climate change, preventing their audience from knowing the facts, and hog-tying our government from curbing carbon pollution. Their ethnic hatred and their lies should ban them completely from the airwaves and cable, and neither Rupert nor Lachlan should be allowed to sit on any corporate board of any media company.
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I worked in Australia way back in 1971-72. Worked out of "big" towns like Eneabba, Blackall, Guyra. Murdoch may have only been intent on creating a media empire, but I do know that he saved my sanity by publishing The Australian. Alongside the Australian Financial Review, these were the only tolerable newspapers that were in any way readable. So, good on ya mate!
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A Dysfunctional Family exports its dysfunction to its own society and others.
This family has now succeeded in sowing a sort of virus in Australia, England and the US.
Use your business to buy your politicians in order to loosen regulations to improve the business, so it can buy more politicians, in order to loosen more regulations - in order to improve business, buy more politicians, sow more discord.
It’s a negative feedback loop for society, even if it makes a lot of money for this dysfunctional family.
Oligarchs are now ruling the world this way!
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Fox News is a blight on our society. They do not just make its audience more conservative; they do not merely feed them doubt about climate change; no, the worst thing is they teach their viewers to laugh at and shout down people with other points of view. Their hosts are not just belittling their liberal guests; their (mostly male) viewers are belittling their wives and their children, too. So it's not just tearing our country apart as Fox News prevents any compromise in Congress on critical issues like addressing abrupt climate change, they model ridicule and disdain that plays out in our families, just like it's playing out in the Murdochs' family. Fox News makes conservatives unpleasant if not impossible to work with, be around, let alone share a family with, so if you don't want to raise your children on Fox News, keep your distance from conservative men.
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“Mr. Murdoch, the founder of a global media empire that includes Fox News, helped topple governments and destabilize democracies around the world.”
The hypocrisy of the New York Times reaches new heights with this headline. It is certainly true, as this piece notes, that Mr. Murdoch has a right-of-center perspective, and that the editorial perspective of his publications tends to reflect this.
But to accuse him of “[destabilizing] democracies around the world” is grossly inappropriate.
The New York Times, and for that matter most US mainstream news publications, lean left of center. The Times publishes innumerable editorials and op-ed pieces reflecting your point of view. Indeed, much of your news coverage reflects the Times’ left leaning perspective. While you usually don’t deliberately print falsehoods, your choice of which news to cover and which not to cover, the wording of your headlines, and the “context” your news reporters choose to include has become strongly partisan. The Times’ editorial pages very much attempt to influence elections. Does the Times plan to run a headline describing itself as “destabilizing the democratically elected President of the United States??”
The answer, of course, it that the Times is exercising its right to freedom of the press, just as Mr. Murdoch exercises a similar privilege.
Readers have no trouble finding left-leaning news coverage. Fox News provides one of the few options for a conservative perspective. I’m glad it’s there.
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If most US publications leaned left we would not be living this oligarchy. 1%, largest income inequality since the robber barons and all.
And we wouldn't need to fight our corporatist representatives for health care.
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Thinking people would not give credence to the trash that Murdoch publishes.
His success coincides with the dumbing down of the general public by a failed education system.
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"It may be more accurate to say that the White House — just like the prime ministers’ offices in Britain and Australia — is just one tool among many that this family uses to exert influence over world events."
Americans, congratulations on surrendering your country's sovereignty to one family. While he was still living, I wonder if Osama bin Laden understood and realized that he and Rupert Murdoch had largely the same objective--to bring the United States of America to its knees.
Instead of a global caliphate, we have a global media conglomerate with the Murdochs calling the shots.
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All this great reporting and the editor forgot to put "Save for Later" Ribbon on this story before publishing it.
Such a pity Lachlan and company hadn't had an extra magnum of fine imported champagne ( Ugh....clutch my pearls but have you EVER had domestic champagne ?!?!) and slept in that morning.
When we talk about the worst men, and women, in the history of mankind there are some names that almost always comes up; Hitler, Pol Pot, Ayatollah Khomeini, Stalin... leaders who were also mass-murderers.
We wonder about the people who followed their orders and sometimes even tortured and killed their own neighbours.
But the cynical evil from the likes of Murdoch, the Koch brothers and, yes Mitch and Donald Trump are looked at with different eyes and the people they use to execute their wishes are quickly excused.
The most irritating for me is that we can see both the strings and the puppeteers but still we are unable to find a way to fight back in this war against Democracy.
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The evil empire. What do all evil people want? Power so they can do more evil. And the evangelicals say the Democrats are bad...oh brother.
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I've got to ask. Why doesn't the Times investigate, oh, MSNBC? You don't think nut jobs like Maddow aren't dangerous to democracy? That network, along with CNN, the MSM, have spent the last two years supporting a narrative designed to overthrow the duly president the United States? Please. Do you know the word asinine?
And before that they treated the president like the crown prince who no one could say a bad word about.
Fox's opinion programs are probably less extreme to the right than the MSM in general and MSNBC in particular is to the right.
Where is the evidence that FOX has destabilized the US government? Being conservative doesn't mean finding the biases of the overwhelmingly biased MSM problematic doesn't mean you are destabilizing democracy.
Why don't you do an actual content analysis and compare how FOX handles topics vs MSNBC -- or even the sainted NY Times. That would be actually interesting. This is an interesting bio, but you accusations about FOX news et al are ridiculous. You disagree with their positions. Which is far. But demonizing them -- that's not.
And what about freedom of speech? That doesn't to you? Free press and all that ?
Another hit job -- by the pot, calling out the kettle.
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1. The things Maddow advocates for aren’t really that dangerous to democracy. Free healthcare, free college, etc are not going to destroy our democracy. Right wing domestic terrorists shooting up churches and schools will. Unchecked corporations concentrating wealth in the hands of a small group of people definitely will. The worst you can say ab
2. This president was not duly elected. Facebook and Twitter have gone before Congress and provided hard evidence of a Russian campaign to
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I don’t think Rachel Maddow has ever inspired domestic terrorists and assassins, or found excuses for them. Nor has her show led to political or economic chaos, as is currently happening in the UK (or even in the US).
You might disagree with her opinions, but you can’t impute her with causing serious harm.
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I dream that MSNBC would be a left version of Fox! If only...
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So if Lachlan is to leave the company, would this family still be a problem? With Rupert already coming close to death and James now actively opposing the company, what would all this become?
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Until the advent if the Internet and cable news the extremist right resided i the nations woodwork and underbelly. Thanks to the constant racist dog whistles, pandering to extremest Christians and political crackpots they elected Trump. Make no doubt it was FOX that enabled and still enables Trump. I even suspect pandering FOX hosts are his personal private cabal of effective advisers none elected or even vetted. FOX lies 24/7 to keep the creature float. The carnage and ruin in Britain is largely still unknown. Lets hope the America Experiment in Trumpism causes all democratic nations to break up media cabals. We have seen the damage they do and the carnage they create. We have seen the damage, politically biased FOX, does to our society and how it distorts truth and facts.. Don't be fooled by recent changes, a few progressive won't change FOX. It is damaged to the core as an independent media.
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"Mr. Murdoch helped topple governments and destabilize democracies around the world."
This headline has appeared near the top of the Times' home page for most of today. It is extraordinarily hypocritical and grossly inappropriate.
Mr. Murdoch enjoys freedom of the press, just like the New York Times. The difference is that he has a right of center political persuasion, and the Times is well to the left. Diversity, in this context, is a good thing.
The Times regularly prints editorials and news articles designed to influence voters and the outcomes of elections. The Times might just as well post a headline "The New York Times continues to try to destabilize the democratically elected government of the United States."
We have many choices when it comes to left of center media. Fox News provides one of the few right leaning alternatives. I'm glad it's here.
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It’s a question of degree. The sheer volume and size of Murdoch’s empire is what makes it dangerous, not the fact that the WSJ is a fiscally conservative business paper or The Sun a rubbishy tabloid.
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If Bloomberg and Schultz and all the other billionaires out there really want to do some good, they should take that money they were going to spend on a misguided presidential campaign and just buy Fox News; buy it and shut it down. It is a toxic propaganda machine undermining democracy across the English speaking world.
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This is an interesting piece. Not a lot that's 'new' here besides the part 3 revelation of Lachlan getting cold feet over buying out his siblings from the family trust, but a useful bringing together of the latest wisdom of Murdoch watchers. A pity so little of it is 'on the record', but that seems to be the way of the world these days.
I'm not sure that you've got the Australian end of the story quite right. Murdoch's national newspaper, The Australian, was initially a full throated supporter of both Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard until their administrations collapsed under internal faction fighting and recriminations. Once they became losers Murdoch ditched them. As for Lachlan's question "Do you think Turnbull can survive?", you chose to read that not as an unremarkable question from someone who'd just flown into Sydney amidst a media/political storm, but as some sort of instruction to undermine Turnbull. I don't think you got that right.
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Was this revenge by an Aussie against the UK (and by extension America) for shipping British convicts to Australia in the 19th century?
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Rupert Murdoch transformed journalism and media in a weapon of mass destruction. Division, hatred, racism and baseless fear are inoculated to otherwise normal people through fake news and manipulation of facts. This media baron would be able to control peace or violence in any given country from the comfort of his armchair. All this in the name of power, money and depravity.
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Interesting insight into the hate machine the Murdoch family has created and perpetuated in the US, the UK, and Australia. Fox News created the disaster known as Donald Trump and has divided America in a way not seen since the Civil War. Sounds like Lachlan Murdoch is a chip off the olf block?
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it is very depressing reading. Many smart and ambitious leaders sold hopes and dreams of their citizens for an additional peace of cake. Case of UK is especially disturbing.
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The point of this article is not that Fox has an unholy pact with President Trump. The point of this article is that no media should be taken at face value, whether from the left or the right. Facts are a hard thing to find in the muck and mire of the media, and it's only through an ardent desire for truth that it can be sifted through. ALL media is a succubus who when given too much trust devours the reason and will of a populace too helpless to think for itself. To prevent this seduction of the public from happening we need to stop settling for being informed and start striving to be inquisitive.
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Beautifully stated. We can read or watch journalism along the full spectrum of opinion but in the end it should be our own efforts to glean the truth that count the most. Unfortunately, most Americans lead such busy lives just trying to keep themselves and their families afloat that the energy to self-educate just isn't there.
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I briefly worked for National Geographic soon after Fox bought them out. In less than two years, Fox systematically gutted the place. It's now a faint shadow of its former self. It's clear the Murdoch family acquired--financially struggling--National Geographic to make themselves look less sleazy.
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It seems strange that the Murdochs can get away with so many venal actions to undermine democracy, continue climate change and promote racism, yet be run out of England for a teenage prank of snooping on other people's phones. Maybe we should reexamine our values in holding up individual freedom versus the effect they have on our collective society.
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A law implemented in 1949 "FCC Fairness Doctrine" sought to prevent polarized ranting with no inclination for honest reporting, guess who struck it down - Ronald Reagan. Reagan's efforts have gifted the ignorant coalition with news that says they're news but doesn't actually have to be saddled with any truth and honesty. That's why we now have nothing but folks on conservative talk and Fox News that pontificate on some irrelevant, erroneous and illogical personal soapbox rants that fuel those who love what they're hearing and can be counted on to not fact check. Thanks to Reagan we now get "Fox News reporters" telling their audience that "Santa Claus is white" while others show up at campaign rally's to stump for their preferred candidate. Welcome to the end of civilization in America.
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Whatever America was when Murdoch came in, he would have represented the opposite...All about The Power and The Reach to influence and manipulate an unprepared and under educated population.
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Try this, Murdock is a demagogue (via is news organizations) who plays the populous to get what he wants. That is, he could not give a hoot about immigration to the US from Central America, or about abortion, but he will happily use these things on people who feel their ideas are so neglected that hearing them on TV, the gratification they feel blinds them to what he is really doing. What is he really doing? Making the rich richer. Feeding the aristocratic class and their children their golden morsels. That is what he is really all about.
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I was particularly piqued by a sentence referring to Murdoch as "Illiberal." I thought I know what this word meant: not a liberal. However, after looking it up, I was astonished that it not only meant "not liberal" but also meant "narrow-minded" and "fascist."
I used to be what was called a "liberal" up until about 10 years ago and still have "some" liberal views. I consider myself a "fiscal conservative" but am registered as "Independent." I am very offended that the tone of this article is there is something wrong with people who don't think like liberals think or, in fact, like the media think.
If I don't believe in open-ended immigration, "Medicare for All," the "New Green Deal" or any other impossible to achieve goals than I guess in the Media's and Democrat Party (not all) there must be something wrong with me.
I am a person, entitled to my opinions. If something makes sense I can work with it. If it doesn't I can't. Simple as that.
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I stated to watch cable news a few weeks ago. The coverage was all Trump, all day. I would feel a lot more violated by Fox News if I didn’t know that CNN and MSNBC hadn’t lost their i partiality and copied Fox’s format and partisanship.
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This article is evidence against the concentration of media ownership both within a country and across national lines and a warning about dynastic inherited wealth and power.
I am an agnostic, but if I believed in such a thing, the Devil would look an awful lot like Rupert Murdoch.
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The Murdoch clan under Rupert have taken a wrecking ball to the common good, all in the name of money and power. Rupert Murdoch's mother was one of Australia's most important philanthropists, supporting children's health, the environment, and the arts, among many causes. Her son and grandchildren have chosen instead to use their vast empire to attack democracy, refugees, and the climate. A very different legacy, and we are all the worse off for it.
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It’s sad to think that Dame Elizabeth’s son has turned out the way he did and turned his children into mini-me copies of himself. Grotesque, in fact.
We live in an age of news silos and trigger warnings. When getting their news people nowadays are looking for a nice warm bath that reinforces all their existing prejudices and our news media - market driven as they are - are giving it to them. MSNBC, the NYT and CNN make a fortune denouncing Trump and feeding the frenzy. Fox digs its gold in the other direction. If they weren't all profit-making organizations mainly responsible to their shareholders we could fault them but they are and they can't. Profits overcome any concerns about balanced coverage. But on things that really matter like supporting an all war all the time foreign policy buttressed by a steady flow of covert and overt military operations around the world, it's nice to see America's news sources find common ground because when it comes to the military industrial complex and the operation of the war machine everybody the Dems, the Republicans, and their respective networks and media entities all fall into line. Nobody is going to stand in front of that train. Funny how that works. Not really.
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Most people watching James Bond movies identify with Bond, M, Q, or Miss Moneypenny, or even Felix Leiter. A few see themselves as Dr. No, Blofeld, or Goldfinger. With their quest for world domination, wealth, and power at their command the Murdochs would most definitely find sympathy for the latter, especially when those we call villains are "cheated" our of their just rewards by some do gooder.
Nobody seriously believes Fox News represents "conservative" points of view. They embraced neo-cons during the Bush era, so they were moving away from traditional conservative values even then. Now, they're Trumpists -- for stronger centralized power in the executive branch, greater deficit spending (running up the national debt when no "stimulus" is still needed), and who want to legislate their amorality so that government controls every aspect of your life, from boardroom to bedroom.
OK, that's an overstatement. Just putting it in hyperbolic terms because they're the only kind FoxNewsers understand.
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What this article shows most alarmingly is the inexorably tightening alliance of mega business interests - whether in media, energy, finance, pharma, or agriculture - with our elected leaders in Washington. Republican administrations have led the anti-regulatory, anti-antitrust rampages that have tilted the playing field so decisively in favor of giant squids like the Murdoch empire. But Democratic administrations have not been shy about courting the favors of newcomers like Silicon Valley and what's left of old-timers like Big Labor and Hollywood. With its relegation of most stories about such matters to the business pages or business news segments on TV, the media has kept many Americans in the dark about this colossal merger, which has done so much to determine not only what we consume but also how we live and think. "Conservatives" like Murdoch are being hypocritical when they rail against "big government" when what they should be saying (in the immortal words of Walt Kelly) is: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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Finally, the toxic influence of the Murdoch family on world affairs is being properly investigated. The question that needs answering is how national and international legislation can be developed to protect society from private media interests exploiting the worst instincts of humanity.
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Good article. All that is missing is a reference to the fall of the Whitlam government in Australia in 1975 when Murdoch learnt his craft of engineering politics. The United States has Fox. We have a mega version. Murdoch controls 70+% of our media. He was our most toxic export.
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Mr. Murdoch will survive this criticism like others before. The critics have to learn that frequently their opinions don't change the road of figures like Mr. Murdoch.
Western liberal democracy has flaws, just at the beautiful elephant or any perfect bird has flaws. If the West did not empower the rich and disempower the poor Murdochs and Trumps would not decide our lives.
It feels all moral to criticise China and Russia's way of running their countries, it does not mean the US is perfect. US policies on guns and health rights, are examples of issues that increase Murdoch's wealth and power.
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I thought this was a fascinating article. I've been aware of the Murdochs and their influence for years. Every headline from a Murdoch paper here in Australia (66%) is tainted with Murdoch soft power. You find yourself asking what is the paper's goal in pushing this and burying that and the answer is that one man has a significant control of the public space and public opinion.
The opposing view is always down played and Murdochs view is leveraged up. If a story is detrimental to one of Murdoch's political puppets it is buried, if a story is detrimental to those with the opposing view of Murdoch's they go to town.
Basically everything he owns, including my local paper here in Tasmania, is untouchable to me because it's always pushing the Murdoch worldview. We should all be concerned by this
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Is fear of his slander and money allowing him to disrupt democracy in the free world? Why is an immigrant allowed to come to this country and create a hurricane of misery? Murdock is a slanderous destructive empire. Where are the Jedi knights to take him down?
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When my wife and I were newly married,
I brought home the game Monopoly, having remembered its little tin car and plastic houses from childhood. We set up the game, and soon my wife was in debt, pleading for me to buy her one remaining railroad for a decent price. I thought up a clever way to leverage the deal and looked up to see a tear rolling down her beautiful face. I wrote in black marker on the box "never play this game with someone you love." It has sat on a dusty shelf since.
I have a wonderful, loving family.
My sons are kind, capable, and happy. They are not billionaires, but then they aren't wrecking the world either.
Sometimes we worry if we'll have enough money to pay the bills, but we get by.
And in the end, Rupert, it's all Monopoly money.
We've never once worried about having enough love.
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It's an excellent article with a potential to be turned into a TV show or a movie. Loved reading it all the way. Editorially, what is happening at fox is symptomatic of what is happening to all media including the liberal ones. All News outlets have their biases including the ones who claim to fight to restore impartiality. Unfortunately, in the New media world, the balance of opinion is not achieved from within the organization but from outside by promoting one of the many biases on all sides of the political divide. As far as Murdoch family's symbiotic relationship with politicians is concerned, that's not unique either. Every large company, including those who claim to have a liberal conscience develops one. The Murdoch story might be a thoroughly researched great expose, but they are just a reflection of how political and commercial interests work hand in glove on all sides of the political spectrum. The loser is always the common man who is fooled into picking one side over the other by righteous narratives created by not so righteous individuals, again on both sides of the political spectrum.
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- After Murdoch lost the bidding for the British government’s sole satellite broadcasting license, Thatcher again came to his rescue, looking the other way when he started a rival service, Sky Television, which beamed programming into Britain from Luxembourg.
I think nothing in these two sentences bears much relationship to the facts. The programs were beamed from London. And Murdoch never bid for the government’s sole satellite licence. It was initially handed to the BBC and a consortium of established broadcasters, before ignominiously collapsing.
Murdoch may be justly criticised but he opened the British television market to competion. Sky News is utterly unlike Fox. Indeed, it tilts left.
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Thanks to years of Republican and business oversight, the rules that limited ownership of media outlets have gone by the wayside, opening the door to Murdoch and others to walk through and mold our news and information to their liking. The rules were in place for the sake of national security. No single entity, let alone a foreign one (Yes, Murdoch is a US citizen for the convenience of ownership), should have this much influence over the news we receive.
Money truly does talk.
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Another great example of the harm that comes from letting wealth accumulate with the few at the top. Reinstate the tax laws of 1950 and make America great again.
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This is interesting, mainly as a means of avoiding left-wing media introspection which, let's all be real about this, so far and away dominates media of every kind.
It's nice to have conservative news sources, but only conservatives review them. It would be helpful to further along a balanced national dialogue if liberal news consumers would check the enormous dose of reality waiting just one channel away on 24-hour televised/streamed news, or one simple click of your mouse on a news source that provides an opportunity for a much broader view.
The day of false equivalencies is over. Get informed. Use your brains.
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You mean *propaganda.* Fox and their genetic mutants are not news. They're propaganda.
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There's PBS and NPR, but to conservatives who are fine with their "news" anchors reporting that "Santa Claus is white", those two extremely reputable public news venues might as well be MSNBC. To conservatives anything that doesn't talk their talk is not their talk and is in fact their enemy. There's nothing wrong with the number of "liberal" news channels. When thinking conservative v. liberal, think wrong v. right, bad v. good and lies v. truth. Just because there's so many "liberal" news channels doesn't make them wrong, it makes them more likely to be the right.
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Conservative political readers, analysts, and clinical psychologists read what the progressives are telling each other here, if only to nail down forecasts of when the socialist mania will develop into rage, depression, followed by coughing and seizures.
Using one's brain always concludes with a newfound respect for conservatism and the Founders of the country.
He will be immortalized as a destroyer of civilizations. He can be comfortable with that legacy but he can't be proud. If Trump was the end of my lifelong works, advocacy and political philosophy I would hang my head in shame, not put a crown on it. Rupert and his clan should use this famous biblical quote on the Murdoch family crest. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?".
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Destroyer Of Civilizations. Appropriate and well recognized. Shiva is not only the destroyer worlds, he is also protector. Murdoch is no protector but of his own dynasty. When Germanicus died, Agrippina, his wife, eventually destroyed her entire family save only Gaius Caesar known as Caligula who eventually succeeded Tiberius as Emperor. Rupert is our modern Agrippina who will support and install Lachlan as our Caligula rather than lose his dynasty. From that point on, the Roman Empire collapsed with the final end of Nero. This is what we can look forward to from the Murdoch dynasty.
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I'm not so sure soul recovery is any longer a mainstream value in America. This brings to mind a Roger Cohen column from March 30th: "Let me offer a word about Trump in conclusion. The obsessive focus on him tends to obscure the fact that he may not represent the antithesis of American values but be more representative of them than people think. What if, as the former ambassador Peter Mulrean, who quit the State Department after Trump was elected, put it to me, Trump “is just an extreme version of what we’ve become, our society’s ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’?” And, Mulrean added, “I mean all of us, not just those who voted for him.”
The fact that the Murdoch/Trump phenomenon is fully forming in this present moment may, if we're willing to face it, a mirror worth looking into.
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My soul for the world? Sure, not a bad bargain.
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Why liberals are so enraged at Fox perplexes me. Most intellectual conservatives dismiss the Fox yakkers (Hannity et al) as most intellectual liberals dismiss the MSNBC/CNN yakkers. Conservatism wasn't reborn or inflated under Fox; it merely benefited from a balancing of the previously left-tilted media landscape.
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Here’s just one example to explain why they’re enraged: Most Fox viewers believe Hillary’s emails are a far bigger deal than anything Russia has ever done.
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If only people of a conservative or Republican bent (e.g. 85% of my family) knew anything, let's say the name, of even the most widely read intellectual conservative.
Stated differently, did any of those respectable conservatives believe in birtherism? Or that the Obama/Churchill statue issue was an actual thing to worry about? Or that Obamacare would rationally employ death panels? (To think of three things on my lunch break.)
I don't think they did. So why then, Russ, does 85% of my family and, no doubt, most of Fox's viewers believe in these things.
Fox.
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Isn't it though? I'm more worried about a person in power in my own government who lies and hides information than a foreign power who attempts to subvert our democracy. The latter can easily be perceived and united against. The former is much more elusive and schismatic.
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The end result of capitalism is monopolies. The larger, more powerful, richer companies will be out, take over, or close their competitors. The solution to this was pointed out in the Gilded Age of the 1890s with the resultant legislation with the Sherman Anti-trust Act.
We need to limit Big Pharma, Big Banks, Big Media, and Big everything else where more than 50% of an industry is owned by one company. I would prefer to knock them down to size of about 30% of an industry.
Capitalism is supposed to be an efficient business model. And, that perhaps is true, until they dominate a market or industry and can charge what they will.
Bottom line: It's time to cut Rupert Murdoch's Empire down to a size where by law, it must divest itself and allow competition among the media from the international, national, state, and local media.
Second bottom line: This recommendation applies to all large companies that are "Too Big To Fail" and have too much ownership within an industry or even across multiple industries.
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ON a microeconomic level there is some substance to your comment as efficient, although there have been many bankruptcies, lives devastated, externalities that would suggest otherwise. In essence, capital is given by the banks (those who have the most get the most )loans money. Seldom does one see these banks lend for low income housing, grocery stores in food desserts, hospitals in rural areas. We could list the collateral damages to infinity. There is little measure, if any, of ethical considerations how money should be distributed.
Agreed. The arc of history may bend toward justice, but the arc of capitalism bends toward consolidation and all its concomitant ills, absent policy intervention. The religion of “free market” capitalism must be tempered by an acknowledgement of its self-destructive tendencies.
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Haters are always going to hate. The Murdoch's, Trump, and Fox Networks were and are wildly successful. The many unsuccessful attempts to derail the promotion of non liberal views is daily and unfaltering yet Mr. Trump was elected to the highest office in the land and Murdoch's are some of the wealthiest people on Earth. I am not a Fox News devotee or a solid Trump supporter but I can see the smoke screen for what it is and the more that News outlets project their opinions instead of factual News the more this country stands divided instead of united.
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Money; power; success. The golden Gods of Republicans. Murdochs have made a fortune on the backs of citizens around the World. People? A business expense. Disposable. Thank you for making money at people's expense. Ray Sipe
United under Trump/Pence? I'll take divided under anybody any old day.
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In regard to the news vs opinion dichotomy, I would argue Fox News (particularly it’s early morning and prime time) has devolved into a third category: Advocacy.
With opinions, you arrive at a conclusion...but with advocacy, you start with the conclusion and bend reality to stick with your predetermined conclusion no matter what.
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I have always believed that allowing a person to accumulate an over-abundance of influence in media (television, radio, newspapers etc) is the fault of the country that permits it, not the individual who is smart enough to understand how to exploit it. I remember Edward Kennedy when he proposed his Bill to limit he number of news outlets that one person could own in any given market and it's my understanding that, year after year, the safeguards contained within that Bill have either been watered down or revoked and Murdoch more than anyone else has seen his influence grow as a result. It is simply mind boggling to me that a modern democracy could allow one man or one company to insidiously manipulate the media that we're all exposed to. Unfortunately I don't see anyone on the horizon with the political strength to combat and revoke this dangerous trend and thus we must all be personally vigilant in choosing which sources of news we listen to and which we ignore. Choosing wisely is easier said than done and even my preferred choice, The New York Times, worries me at times in terms of it's impartiality and factual reporting.
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It seems Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch loved 'liberal democracy' for decades as it allowed them to build an empire and unprecedented wealth.
Once that was accomplished, they set about destroying that system.
Neither appears remotely interested in the concept of an honorable legacy.
Despite their unprecedented power and wealth one can only pity them.
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I guess when Rupert dies, the great mystery will remain: Why did he seem to hate the very countries that enabled him in building his empire?
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One of the great catastrophes of Fox was the work of Roger Ailes who built a television network that openly promoted one biased political point of view... the financial success of which ultimately led almost all American media to follow suit including the Post and Times. The recent collusion debacle is the culminating result of Ailes' sorry influence. No independent thinking person can trust any of the media any longer.
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Remade the world? More like ruined it.
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Good coverage of Murdoch, a still too powerful mogul who needs to be challenged. That said, he would not have had nearly the impact without the twisted, evil genius of Roger Ailes who succeeded in tribalizing our politics, and dividing our nation -- As I wrote in an article a few months back --
https://almarkowitz.blogspot.com/2018/11/divided-and-conquered-roger-and-us.html
We are still living in the broken country that is his legacy.
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I have zero sympathies for Murdoch and his folks but some statements here are apparent 'hit-jobs' in the words of the beloved president, and such is the intent of this 'article'. This is not journalism but rather a crude and brazen attempt to vilify the other side.
Speaking of all this, more or less the same holds for NYT, in truth, just it is on the left rather on the right.
Non-partisan journalism does not exist in USA!
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Murdoch is a symptom and not the disease. To view him as the arch-villain he clearly is absent the devolution of our society in the pursuit of profit & greed under the fiction 'free markets' is a dire mistake. Perhaps, in light of resistance to acknowledging humans role in climate change, a species ending mistake.
What the Murdoch's want, to paraphrase the former New York Times writer Chris Hedges, "more, more, more". There is an insatiable lust for money and power that is pathological. And it is not hyperbole to state as much. When there is no satiation of greed and power and the fulfillment of 'it' is at the cost of billions of lives around the globe - whether it wheat price manipulation on Wall Street that results in deaths on other continents or, on a smaller scale, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin 'capitalizing' on distressed mortgages that left 10s of thousands to lose their homes so he can buy private jets and mansions - the pathology is clear.
We need to quit rewarding the most pathological among us by referring to their illness as "success".
We need to recognize there are people who will destroy the world around them without one iota of care for another person.
We need to recognize many of these people, like our President, have demonstrated no capacity to demonstrate empathy or compassion.
And we need to recognize until we question what capitalism has become things will only get worse. If you think otherwise you are in deep denial.
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This is all explained by psychopaths among us having the evolutionary advantage of ruthlessness that allows them to rise to the top and over and over throughout history, bring suffering and misery on the rest of us.
Psychopathy is way more prevalent than many people realize, and it is a spectrum, so often it is not recognized.
The Psychopath Test by Ron Johnson is a great read on the topic.
Anyway, it would be great if we could identify and defang anti-social psychopaths before they rose to power.
AI tech could save humanity in exactly this way.
Wouldn't it be lovely if the rich and powerful used their wealth and power to do the most good for the most people instead of letting greed be their guide?
Since that'll never happen the next best thing is an educated public that understands when it is being hoodwinked. Thanks for helping educate us all, NYT!
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i certainly hope that the Murdoch empire responds with a similar attack on the Ochs/Sulzberger family empire.
How journalism has fallen! We have gone from the era of heroic reporting, to the era of fake-news, and even worse, non-news.
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You should stick with the Post!
The NYT tries to seek the truth, and for the most part, it does a good job presenting reality to readers whereas Murdoch presents an alternate reality.
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Thank you for you comment.
The issue I was addressing, was a content selection issue, not an accuracy of reporting issue. I'm sure the Times did a fine job of dredging up the facts; they have always been very good at that; if you put aside the Jason Blair Incident, and more recently, the totally biased reporting on the alleged Duke Lacrosse team incident.
I think the Post has something to do with Sports reporting - you seem to be far more familiar with it than I am.
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Well done, the bias takes away from an other wise Pulitzer prize winning story.
Who I am kidding this bias will sell with the judges.
You people can not help yourselves, the gratuitous comments are beyond the pale.
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Wannabe gods producing wannable gods producing wannabe gods. Fascinating stuff especially if you believe there is a real God, who probably pays little attention to all these wannabes. The press secretary for the president intimated that God wanted Trump to be president. One can only imagine what she thinks when the wannabe gods get together.
We live in a world of mortals. There are no immortal men or women. As the lady at the post office reminded me: "we all have our expiration date" which includes all those wannabe gods.
We went to war to spread democracy(supposedly) around the world how many times? How many millions of Americans died in those wars? How many civilians died in all those world since the early 1900? We had to defeat Communism/Nazi's et al.
Now we let a family own media around the world that is destroying democracy and can be attributed to the death of democracy here in the US? Reagan/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Trump keep loosening the regulations that were place to allow this to happen.
Not a shot fired, well that is not true either. We have hated filled individual who are mass murderers shooting up theaters, schools, concerts hall, et all and people die.
Sounds like this is a very dangerous family that needs to be taken down.
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Murdoch's media empire lies, plain and simple. He and his children should be pariahs and not welcome in civil society anywhere. Let's hope that happens sooner than later.
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William Randolph Hearst created “Yellow Journalism” that consists of half-truths, distorted facts, speculation, and conspiracy theories. The character, Charles Foster Kane, in the film Citizen Kane, is based on Hearst. Hearst, much like Murdoch, used his newspapers to reach the masses and to influence politicians. It wouldn’t surprise me me a bit if Rupert Murdoch on his deathbed had a “Rosebud” moment considering all the unnecessary human misery he has caused with his brand of Yellow Journalism.
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Any person with that much power (whether accumulated or via hereditary means) is antiquated and antithesis to Democracy itself. (let alone that all people are created equal)
Each and every day, via print or media, one man's visions of how certain countries in particular, and the world in general, should function have been dictated from the top down through editors and the like. Essentially the bottom line, is that anything that affected HIS bottom line, was to be destroyed at all costs. Pressure has been brought to bear on whole governments (in particular its leaders) to conform to his vision.
If they didn't conform, then they were out, and if they didn't kiss the ring, then they were not even allowed in to the game.
It's been his game where we never had a chance to win. Only him.
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Essential reading for those who care about democracy. Should be read in tandem with this, from Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/02/the-american-empire-is-the-sick-man-of-the-21st-century/
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It seems to me that Mr. Murdoch has created the most damning of all legacies: he's cheapened everything he's touched - even human beings.
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And then depression set in.
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Money, Lies and media.
Deadly to a democracy that has had its safeguards completely removed by republicans Reagan and Bush. Then fully enabled by Scalia's "Citizens United".
Take a look at the result .....The lying Trump, whom We The People did not elect, and the republican coup of 2016.
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"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" These words from Anton Chigurh ring true for this investigation. If Trump is the place that the Murdochs' philosophy has brought us to, then what good is the philosophy.
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Finally! I've waited so long for a feature like this one.
Here in Germany, so many people I know have been asking - how could Brexit happen? Trump? Why do some Americans deny that climate change is man-made and do not see it as a serious problem? Why do Australians, who are already on the receiving end of some of the worst climate change events, like drought, floods and fish kills in Queensland and New South Wales recently, not see climate change as their no.1 priority? how is that even possible?
As the daughter of an magazine editor, I was always trying to tell people about the Murdoch empire, and its influence on politics, having spent a large part of my youth being schooled by my dad on the transgressions of our local 'Bild'-Zeitung (the highest-circulation German tabloid) and its outsize influence on the Germany government, gently coaxing it in the direction 'Bild' wanted, by way of headlines...
And what about the rise of Berlusconi in Italy, being elected president four times, where he owns TV stations, newspapers and magazines, giving him dominant influence on Italy's public opinion, making him both the message and the messenger?
Of all the billionaires trying to dictate politics and subvert democracy, Murdoch has to be one of the worst (although far from the only one) - thank you NYT for shining a light on this.
As his' and other billionaires' disgusting shots at oligarchy become more widely known, public opinion is turning against them, their policies, and products.
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This series is an amazing accomplishment by the New York Times. It's also a highly frightening expose on how a media giant that doesn't pay much heed to truth has become a state-run forum for an American president, much like the old Pravda and now RT.
In FOX world, truth is whatever the opinion shapers say it is. FOX viewers aren't very discerning about what they watch and read, because as long it reflects their views, it's seen as gospel.
Just think how much FOX News saves in fact checkers, and careful investigative reporting. Unlike media organizations like this one, the goal isn't to illuminate or analyze, it's to reinforce the views of the politicians it embraces.
As such, FOX has played a crucial role in polarizing this country long before the Trump presidency was even a glimmer in Murdoch's eyes. The Murdoch family, to put it mildly, isn't very nice or ethical.
Its agenda is decidedly un-American, going against the grain of a robust free press that should amplify a multitude of views rather than providing a megaphone of one.
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Murdoch has done more to subvert and besmirch the Fourth Estate than any other media mogul. A pox on Fox and all the other propaganda organs of his creation.
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This series is an extended argument for liberal democracy and why we need it.
Rupert Murdoch and his children were never elected to power. Yet, they can force their views and will on ordinary people. This is a form of extra-governmental, corporate dictatorship.
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What a saga!
A dynastic struggle worthy of the Shakespeare's histories with rivalries worthy of Richard III
A media monarch reminiscent of Charles Foster Kane, complete with Hollywood subplot.
An epic scope worthy of Lord of the Rings, complete with absolute evil and senescent Gollum.
One thing for certain: this account would never be published in the London Times.
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The Murdoch family are as hated as Trump is. Murdoch has worked tirelessly to the detriment of America. This family lives in Great Britain and has no interest in American ideals. It is all about money at our expense. Democrats should not even consider appearing on Fox stations.
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Wait, I know what they want: money.
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Perhaps the most despicable thing Rupert and his empire has done is to champion politicians and industries who are climate change deniers.
These politicians and their fossil fuel minders spew alternative universe and magical thinking disinformation and outright lies to counter irrefutable data about the reality of what Mother Nature has in store if we don’t immediately change our insanely stupid course.
The rich like the Murdoch clan will be able to insulate themselves for the longest time from the effects, while a stunning variety of species of plants and animals will suffer extinction.
Many of our own species will increasingly suffer also from ill health and starvation.
I’m a native of Ft. Lauderdale which has unfortunately turned into a playground for the rich. At high tide when the moon is full even the masters of the universe who ply the streets in Bentleys and Porsches must seek higher ground than the flooding but fashionable Las Olas boulevard.
“That’s why I say hey man, nice shot,
what a good shot man.”
Filter
1995
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Such businessmen and corporations are being equally helped by for-sale intellectuals churned out by our institutions of higher learning. These opportunist and shrewd "intellectuals" and managers must not deny thier own collisions to destroy our democracies and the world we all live.
Previously our collective ignorance, lack of education for the masses, put religious clerics to establish religion and feudal system of governance. Now failure of many of our educated and other mainstream elites, who traditionally enjoy power, has paved the way for distrust and dissolution of vast majority of common people on traditional or status quo political parties and political power structure. The intellectuals, mainly from the working class background, who were immensely benefited by past era socially beneficial policies during their early part of life, behaved equally badly, were equally interested to accumulate more power and more money by selling themselves to anyone who can buy their 'education' and expertise to help only themselves. Trust on formal education and science is at its lowest now even in countries like in USA, arguably the science and technological superpower in the world.
This is a nice article and a book review on that issue.
America Has Gone Off the Rails. Steven Brill Sees Ways to Get It Back on Track.- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/books/review/steven-brill-tailspin.html
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I feel utterly depressed after reading the exploits of these greedy, self-important moral idiots. But we all owe the NY Times our gratitude for this series, which follows the money behind the rise of right-wing extremism. From Reagan & Thatcher, to Clinton & Blair, to Trump, the consolidation of financial power, political power & media power has been deliberately engineered.
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It's about time the Times covered Murdoch's influence. One could plausibly argue that more than any other single person, he has been responsible, directly and indirectly, for the mess that led us to Donald Trump and to Brexit.
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This man knowingly operates a propaganda organization designed to sow discord and to spread distorted information in order to enrich himself and his family. He should be deported back to Australia.
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The Most Powerful Media Company On Earth?! And I've always thought that The New York Times was the most powerful media company on earth! Serves me right!!!
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Shouldn't this article be about how he has tried to balance the left wing nonsense we've had shoved down our throats for decades. I'm still waiting for the sky to fall if Reagan gets elected. I've lost count how many times since it was going to fall if a republican was elected, appointed judge, or a republican Congress passed a law.
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I don't know, look around you. people are dying because of republican policies- everything from health care to immigration. it's like they were designed to be cruel and inhumane.
the country and world would improve the day no republican ever comes near government again. and I was once a proponent of a healthy opposition party.
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I don't know. I have read the first part so far, and I see a lot of claims and little or no evidence for the enormously ambitious thesis that Murdoch and his children have toppled governments and destabilized democracies. It sounds a lot like your reporting on the Russian conspiracy that supposedly elected Trump. Then the commission found nothing, after spending millions of taxpayer dollars. I'm a liberal and did not vote for Trump. But aren't you, NY Times, engaging in rabble-rousing and little else? How about a lot more proof of your thesis, and a little less hysteria? You're not helping the liberal cause, in my opinion, with this type of hyped-up, conspiracy-threat, poorly substantiated reporting. What if they appoint another special commission and spend more millions on investigating Murdoch? Like it or not, people like to watch Fox, and they clearly wanted to vote for Trump. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion in Free America, right? I think it's the same in the UK and Australia. Come on, Thatcher elected because of Murdoch? Please.
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You don’t know that it found nothing. Outside of Mueller’s team, only Trump’s appointee - a man who publicly dismissed the whole investigation from the outset - has seen the report. Barr is being contradicted by Mueller team members.
Hence the congressional sub poena.
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like the ron comment - "Like most of the rich and powerful the Murdoch empire is undermining democracies in favor of state fascism. The Murdochs of the world believe they are superior to the rest of us and deserve to run businesses and countries to their liking. Our anti-trust laws are not working to curb the power of the likes of the Murdoch empire to the detriment to the our democracy and democracies around the world. We like to believe we have moved beyond emperors, kings, and queens but have we? If one looks at the US economy it has been repeatedly reported that the control of national wealth is in the hands of very few creating a new ruling class that only serves itself through control of the political system, mainly elections and subsequently, government."
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Shame on Murdoch. Instead of using his influence to educate people and show what true, honest journalism is he has encouraged division, dishonesty and lies.
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the murdochs have no sense of shame; only a bottomless sense of greed.
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Thank you Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg for your excellent work on Planet Fox, the entire Murdoch rat nest which has no moral core and are as totally impoverished as the Trump family. It was really painful to read this 3 part piece but as an American reading this paper daily--for decades, it is my duty to stay informed as to what my government is doing and has done for decades. With Turmp its been daily torture because like Murdoch he loves to destroy.
The Murdoch sons are as pitiful as their pitiful father. Their father is responsible for their very damaged lives. Power corrupts. Money corrupts. Having no moral spine along with power and money together is poison for the greater world.
My sorrow as a witness to this daily is endless. I had to take a shower after reading this piece to wash the newsprint off my soul which it has stained. Only thing is that such evil intent doesn't wash away with soap and water.
I couldn't help thinking about C.G. Jung while reading this piece.
“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
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I have lived in the 3 countries where this venal old Aussie and his media properties have wrecked havoc over the populace for decades.
Murdoch is a bonafide smut peddler, fueled by power, money and is a deeply unethical man.
His newspapers and tv channels have brought discourse further down to the sewer level in Australia, the UK and America.
The Murdoch name is a stain on every democracy where he has lived and plied his trade.
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It's an interesting article. One perhaps that may be overblown.
Similarly one could look at the NYTimes or WashingtonPost and note that there is a globalist bias, that has no representation of married working class families, or their concerns. Anything patriotic is called nativist or chauvenistic, and ignores the realities of the empire we live in.
It's a flashy piece - would be great to have a more objective view of things is all. Seems a bit too sensationalist....
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Fox Noise may be powerful but seems malevolent in it's intent to misinform the public...instead of informing, so to gain imperial control of credulous minds. Too bad, given the morals ( or lack thereof) involved. Adjusting the facts, and the truth, to circumstances favorable to a certain group, ought to be frowned upon. Fox Noise could use some transparency in it's dealings. Rupert's sons may come to realize this, especially after the sex abuse of several of their employees...and leading to their firing for becoming a liability. Oh well, who said we all can't be corruptibly Machiavellian when the price is right?
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The Wall Street Journal is owned by someone whose vast fortune has no vested interest in the machinations of daily American political issues?
And the same guy owns Fox News?
I can’t imagine why anyone might be critical of capitalism. Look at how much the Murdoch family has gained!
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When is this available in print - on newsstands?
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Thanks for the comment. This article will be in this weekend's New York Times Magazine.
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It would be wonderful to live a life of Rupert Murdoch, and yet he was lying nearly incapacitated at the age of 86, young in comparison with current longevity of the elites.
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Of all the malign forces at work in the world it is hard to top Murdoch/Fox. It seems to me that they have happened upon a very effective algorithm for milking people's cash and credulity by simply propagating nonsense that keeps people both frightened and ignorant, but engaged. I don't think that Murdoch necessarily has a nefarious intent. To make sense of the Fox phenomenon I think that it may be useful to look at it as a biologist might a parasite that has found an effective means of existence. The question for me is how to root it out? Is there anyone out there who has a mission to hobble it? There is the example of Peter Thiel sinking Gawker.
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When the history of this era is written, Rupert Murdoch will have been seen to have had a more destructive impact on the US than the 9/11 bombers.
His legacy is one of bitter national divisiveness in a country that unwisely welcomed him as a citizen, and which he then betrayed with a continuous inflammatory media outpouring that poisoned national discourse and turned neighbor against neighbor.
His will be among the most toxic names of this era.
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It's tragic for the United States that Rupert Murdoch came to this country and became an American citizen in order to build a media empire here of sludge and lies - Fox News - that's now an alternate universe mouthpiece - and 'kitchen cabinet' - for the Trump administration.
Reportedly Murdoch told people that he wanted Trump to win the 2016 election. The falsehoods involved in Trump doing so - his own lies, false reports on Fox & Russian interference - are daunting and are now a daily threat to our democracy and the various organizations we must depend on to defend our freedoms - including the media, the intelligence agencies and democratic elections.
If we examine the damage Fox News has done to our democracy spreading conspiracy theories and lies on a daily basis, it begs the question: does U.S. Citizen Rupert Murdoch care at all about the survival of our democracy?
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Apparently He Does Not!
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At the end of the day, the question is whether one made the world a better place.
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