“He’s evil,” writes Al Franken of Mr. Murdoch in his book.
James Fallows, writing in The Atlantic Monthly, writes, “our journalistic culture may soon enough resemble that of early nineteenth-century America, in which party-owned newspapers presented selective versions of the truth.”
A top BBC official told The Independent that Mr. Murdoch is a “capital imperialist.
Why has Murdoch-bashing flared up again? Some of it is just business; but the motivation for much of it can be reduced to three words: Fox News Channel.
Franken seems almost obsessed with Mr. Murdoch’s highly successful news network. So do media critics Joe Conason and Eric Alterman. And Al Gore was so troubled by Fox that he called it part of a right-wing “fifth column” inside the media “financed by wealthy ultra-conservative billionaires who make political deals with Republican administrations.”
In The Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Fallows concludes that Mr. Murdoch is “principally a businessman, of conventional business-conservative views, who vents those views when possible but not when they interfere with any important corporate goal.”
Fair enough.
Sounds to me like Mr. Murdoch is fair and balanced – - and I thank him for both Fox News Channel and The Weekly Standard.
As for all the hoopla from the pundits – - they simply can’t stand that finally there is a news network available that will not spew more liberal fiction and there is nothing they can do about it.
Just more liberal media hissy fits.
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