About the nicest thing that could be said,
about Rupert Murdoch and NewsCorp.
Although I generally admire entrepreneurs who build giant companies, Rupert Murdoch, despite giving us Homer Simpson, generally has not been a force for good over the course of his long career. His Bill O’Reilly-ed, Glenn Beck-ed Fox News has done a great deal to coarsen the political discourse. His tabloids have lowered the standards of journalism on three continents — and routinely broken the law on at least one of them. He had dumbed down his prestige papers, like The Times of London. He has run roughshod over cross-ownership rules meant to prevent one man or company from having too much power — and then used his lobbying might to get those rules diluted.
I am certain that more is going to come out, how they illegally controlled politics and politicians for their rightwing agenda, and enabled Bush to start illegal wars, based on lies that they disseminated. I hope he goes to jail for the rest of his miserable life.
Although I generally admire entrepreneurs who build giant companies, Rupert Murdoch, despite giving us Homer Simpson, generally has not been a force for good over the course of his long career. His Bill O’Reilly-ed, Glenn Beck-ed Fox News has done a great deal to coarsen the political discourse. His tabloids have lowered the standards of journalism on three continents — and routinely broken the law on at least one of them. He had dumbed down his prestige papers, like The Times of London. He has run roughshod over cross-ownership rules meant to prevent one man or company from having too much power — and then used his lobbying might to get those rules diluted.
I am certain that more is going to come out, how they illegally controlled politics and politicians for their rightwing agenda, and enabled Bush to start illegal wars, based on lies that they disseminated. I hope he goes to jail for the rest of his miserable life.
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