Friday, July 15, 2011

Rupert and scum, where will it end?

Rupert Murdock's media empire includes Fox news, and the Wallstreet Journal.  In England his power was all the way to the top, both parties kowtowed to him.  The dirty tricks they used to get stories, and keep stories going has been reported for 6 years by The Guardain, the high journalistic standards and totally independent newspaper in London.  For 6 years, but the British public didn't much care that Murdocks papers were scum, it was fun to listen to the gossip,  lies and rants.  Sound familiar?  Finally the shit hit the fan, goggles weren't enough when they messed with the kidnapped and murdered girl.   In a flash he shut down his largest asset in England, the oldest and widest read (rag) paper, withdrew a bid to expand into TV news.

To do all this, cut off his right arm in Europe, tells me we are not to the bottom of this, there is more to come and it's huge.  From early reports, people involved have indicated the Murdock assets in the US may have done the same dirty things with 911 victims families.  The FBI is investigating.  I really dislike Fox news, they did here what Murdocks assets did in England, directly manipulate the political events of the nation.  The WJ has for years been a GOP shill, but at least report general business news, so it's only partially bent, but bent it is too.

If FOX did these things here, wow, how will it play, like the past 6 years in England?  Or have we had our 6 years of titillation?  Like I said, I think there is a lot to come yet on this story in England, and perhaps here as well.  It is bad enough we have inept press at many levels, the local news fire truck chasers I no longer watch, no local news, it's like watching the try-out for cheerleader.  But a press that is corrupt or working in collusion with a political party, this is a clear and present danger to democracy, and must be corrected, if they did it here also, if it takes putting Fox news corp in jail, let it be.

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