On Jul 16, 2011, at 2:43 PM, mex sara wrote: > > so wadda yall think at the demise of news international and Ruperts minions > ? > * > * > *http://tinyurl.com/6dhtqrj* > > I am thinking of all those US Fox politicians/spokes-persons
Well, Fox News is much ore an overt propaganda wing of the Republican Party; 80% of their programming is not actually news, but opinion shows, no need to hack phones and bribe police, just bloviate at will. There's a different kind of dynamic at play here in the US media...we don't really have the kind of fierce competition among tabloids that the UK does. About the only one that comes close is 'The National Enquirer' and they've been very careful to skate on this side of the law; they've lost some high profile libel suits, so they're much lower profile than, say, the Sun or the National Inquirer. Hell we don't eben have any national newspaper akin to the Guardian, even the NY Times and Washington Poast have become mere tools for molding public opinion for their corporate master's ends, which largely coincide with the Republican party anymore. (Witness Judith Miller's witless reporting of the party line during the run-up to the Iraq War, most of which has been shown to be propaganda delivered by the WHite House and the merry band of neocons at the Pentagon.) I'm surprised that the Times still publishes Krugman's columns, and the current ownership of the Washington Post would have been horrified by Woodward and Bernstein's activities, it might jeopardize their cozy access to the powers that be! I'm sure Francis would disagree, but like socialism, he wouldn't know an actual liberal media if it bit him on the ass. Basically, Rupert's holdings here don't engage on the kind of muckraking that his papers in England did, because the mass media doesn't engage in that sort of muckraking, period. They see their job as presenting 'balance', not truth, and the profit motive has reduced most news organizations to press release republication venues. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
