About 40,000 people die every day. Why not him?
Socrates once debated a sophist named Gorgias, who argued that the greatest power one person could possess was the power to influence others. Humans united in a common goal is a truly powerful and terrifying force. They’ve split the atom, saved earth from Scientologist aliens, and built this thing; so generally I agree with Gorgias. One person with a selfish goal is insignificant unless they can convince whole nations of people to go along with it.
This is why the entire News Corps entity is so dangerous. The history of this company is a history of a lighting fast expansion into foreign news outlets. It is the history of deregulation and partnership with governments all over the western world. It is a history of right-wing propaganda; an orchestrated, centralized, top-down down push to codify talking points to sway public opinion to the right.
News of the World already had a sleazy reputation in the UK when it came out that the publication was full of total shitheels who breached individual privacy and public trust alike, but what about the US’s Fox News? It’s credibility is already made the butt of jokes on almost a daily basis since its inception in 1996, but what have they really done that’s so bad? We have freedom of speech in this country, don’t we?
We sure as fuck do, and that includes the freedom to lie. Fox News knows this better than anyone, because it won a case in Florida that asserted just that. They can knowingly lie and suppress honest journalism and still call themselves news. Fox News fired honest journalists for reporting on a story that implicated a sponsor, the shadowy evil Monsanto Corporation, in poisoning us all, and sued to silence the reporters. Think about that for a second. This is supposed to be a news organization and they crushed the truth, going as far to fire their own reporters, to protect a corporate sponsor who was poisoning it’s customers and lying about it. At least the Nazis were right out there in the open with their evil.
With such far-reaching media control and the favor of the law makers, News Corp. can easily suppress dissent and attack their enemies. In this country they have marshaled an army of nationalist bigots who are convinced that all other media is biased and Fox tells the truth. They have the power to legitimize the far right and effectively control the political discussion.
This is extremely consequential. Right now the House of Representatives is packed with naive ideological inexperienced right wing politicians largely because of the partnership between Fox News and the republican party. The reactionary right rallied under the standard of Fox News in 2010, and now we face a budget crisis that threatens to ruin the economy and will certainly mean a looting of the middle and lower class entitlements.
Rupert Murdoch is perhaps the worst in a long parade of shitty things to come out of Australia. I know it’s not going to happen because our entire political and legal system is corrupt, but I hope that Murdoch and his whole charlatan organization is destroyed. It sucks that we live in a world where Lex Luther is real, but Superman isn’t.
Congratulations on your wisdom in cornering “Fuckyou.com”. Unfortunately that was your peak. You are an economic and cultural ignoramus……..next!
Rich
Want to buy it, professor?
I slightly agree with this sentiment, but I’d also like to see a “fair and balanced” op-ed on MSNBC, since they pull the same fucking bullshit only for the far-left.
Dude not even close. People say that, but it’s people who don’t watch both networks like I do, and aren’t as informed as I am. Seriously I’m talking about their ‘regular news shows,’ here, not the editorial stuff.
Just remember, that the Nazis were leftists. So were the Communists. So were the fascists in Italy. The first major thing the Nazis did when they came to power was to pass Universal Health Care.
Do a little more research.
The fact is that Fox News is straight up about their conservative bias. Every host admits their bias. The rest of the media hides their left wing bias. They will never admit it.
The Nazis were leftists and I need to do a little more research?
Poe’s law? Look for your comment on Fundies Say the Darndest Things
Please be serious. I want to know more about your opinions on this matter.
You truly are a stupid fucking slave. I see you bought into the false right left paradigm hook line and sinker. Guess what, Murdoch is in favor of carbon taxes and global government just as much as NBC is.
The entire thing is FAKE you idiot. They only exist to play each other off against each other on this stupid tribal basis that you seem to love so much.
They support Perry who is Al Gores former chief of staff, NBC attacks Perry just to make him appear more legitimate. fox attacked Obama, just to make him seem more legitimate.
When you compare Perry to Paul its painfully obvious how contrived and phoney their scheme really is. Ron Paul is the real deal and Fox attacks him just as much as NBC doesn . Never mind that Perry is basically a Ron Paul rip off with the way that he pretends to attack the Federal reserve.
Its a smoke and mirrors scam and you fell for it like a typical brain washed idiot American.
9/11 is coming up, boy i sure hope you do your part to stop those terrorists because the script that the new stations were given before 9/11 even happend says thats what we need to do ho boy!
Aww fuck, if they cover my private little bitch-ass agenda – or if I’m damn fool enough to think they fucking did, when they just sing it like so – then why then why wouldn’t I just drop to my fucking knees and suck that News Corp dill like a tool-ass motherfucker too? Fuck.