The Big Lie Of Murdoch's Media Empire: News is not their first business. Wielding influence is.

[kpete]

Comment Is Free / By Jay Rosen 14 COMMENTS
The Big Lie At The Heart Of Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire
News Corp isn't a news corporation at all. It's the lobbying arm of Rupert Murdoch's global conglomerate, in the business of wielding influence.

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Fox News and the newspapers Murdoch owns are described by News Corp, and understood by most who work there as "normal" news organisations. But they aren't, really. What makes them different is not that they have a more conservative take on the world – that's the fiction in which opponents and supporters join – but rather: news is not their first business. Wielding influence is.

Scaring politicians into going along with News Corp's plans. Building up an atmosphere of fear and paranoia, which then admits Rupert into the back door of 10 Downing Street.

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[spanone]

1. k&r...

[freshwest]

2. Never been about information, just inciting the RW and demoralizing the LW. K & R

[aquart]

3. k&r

[azul]

4. It gains influence to increase profits and grow.

It uses its reporting to tell truth or lies for whomever is in power, liberal or conservative, to get tax breaks and concessions and takeover authorizations.

But it is a corporation, and it is leaning more to push for corporate-state governments rather than socialistic ones, though it is a creature of opportunity, after all.

Media corporations need to have a mission, imposed by law, to serve the public interest, and not be allowed to stray. Newcorps' abuse of this influence power gained from its public privilege position has been the lesson learned. There should be consequences for the company and its shareholders, too.

[6000eliot]

5. You don't think they were doing all of that hacking for stories, do you?

[90-percent]

6. Murdoch

I think he is typical of the type that are THE POWERS THAT BE.

I think almost all of our institutions have been captured by selfish sociopathic bullies that have no concept of the common good.

I think Murdoch is this crowd's Justin Berber. They have his poster in their bedrooms and want to be JUST LIKE HIM.

-90% Jimmy