On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe Murdoch to be entirely apolitical, opting instead to align > himself with whomever can increase his profit margin. Everything I > know about the man (two biographies and seeing the decisions he has > publicly made) points to a man without any ideology, driven entirely > by money. FoxNews has a conservative slant because it makes him money. > The Fox network is caustic and edgy because it makes him money. If Fox > or FoxNews ceased being profitable, Murdoch wouldn't hesitate to > change them. He'd bring Olberman to FoxNews. He'd switch Fox to > family-friendly entertainment. He has no allegiances that I can > detect. He has no publicly demonstrated scruples.
"a man without any ideology, driven entirely by money" is a contradiction though; values dominated by maximizing profit *is* an ideology - and in fact it is an ideology not too far removed from at least one strand of the Reagen-Bush Conservative coalition. When people say this about Murdoch and some other putative conservatives, I think what they really mean is that Murdoch is not a "values" (IOW, religious, moralistic) conservative, and maybe not a "neo" (IOW, US-centric and hyper-militarist foreign policy). They mean more that he is an economic, free market conservative. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" 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/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
