The Fall Of The HOUSE Of MURDOCH

[Segami]

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By Jonathan Schell


- "...The Murdochs call News Corporation a journalistic enterprise. In fact, it is, first, an entertainment company, with the bulk of its revenue coming from its film and television holdings. Second, and more importantly, it is a propaganda machine for right-wing causes and political figures.


This is News Corporation’s main face in the U.S., in the form of Fox News, whose hallmark has been relentless propagation of right-wing ideology. Whereas political propaganda had once been the domain of governments and political parties, Fox News is formally independent of both - though it overwhelmingly serves the interests of America’s Republican Party.


In Britain, News Corporation has been creating a sort of state unto itself by corrupting the police, assuming police powers of surveillance, and intimidating politicians into looking the other way. In theU.S., it has behaved similarly, using corporate media power to breathe life into a stand-alone political organization, the Tea Party.


All of this is far removed from what a journalistic organization is supposed to do. Journalism’s essential role in a democracy is to enable people to fulfill their roles as citizens by providing information about government, other powerful institutions, civil movements, international events, and so on. But News Corporation replaces such journalism with titillation and gossip, as it did when it took over the 168-year-old News of the World and turned it into a tabloid in 1984, and with partisan campaigns, as it did when it created Fox News in 1996.



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http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/11/the-fall-of-the-house-of-murdoch/



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[pipoman]

1. Journalistic integrity has been dead for decades

it simply no longer exists...

[thereismore]

2. NewsCorp = organized crime. nt

[Warpy]

3. Yes, please.

Then maybe we can work on the corporate monopolies we have left.

[tcaudilllg]

4. Both Murdocks should hang.