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Rupert Murdoch switching loyalties again?
BillieTheBot
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The owner of The Sun, The Times and their Sunday counterparts in the UK, plus the owner of MySpace (so the rumours were true, after all) has very few fans on the boards. I'm not amongst them. This, after all, is the man who gave up his Australian citizenship to buy American media - hardly the act of a patriotic Australian who loves his country.
I was unsurprised to see him moaning to a newspaper a few days ago. He said some stuff about how he'd been a "very big supporter of Tony on big issues". How long until he's on first name terms with "Call Me Dave" Cameron? And why can't I imagine him going to LibDem HQ and greeting their leader as 'Ming'?
Here's the link.
OK, but answer me this, Mr Murdoch. As I said, you're not a man who thinks much of loyalty, especially not when your country of birth is concerned. You're now a US citizen, and will be until you see the development of the next superpower. So, why do you feel the need to interfere in the editorial decisions of British newspapers? Why don't you keep your nose out of something that doesn't affect you?
Over to the rest of you. Especially Aladdin, who I'm sure, will have many kind things to say about his friend Rupert...
I was unsurprised to see him moaning to a newspaper a few days ago. He said some stuff about how he'd been a "very big supporter of Tony on big issues". How long until he's on first name terms with "Call Me Dave" Cameron? And why can't I imagine him going to LibDem HQ and greeting their leader as 'Ming'?
Here's the link.
OK, but answer me this, Mr Murdoch. As I said, you're not a man who thinks much of loyalty, especially not when your country of birth is concerned. You're now a US citizen, and will be until you see the development of the next superpower. So, why do you feel the need to interfere in the editorial decisions of British newspapers? Why don't you keep your nose out of something that doesn't affect you?
Over to the rest of you. Especially Aladdin, who I'm sure, will have many kind things to say about his friend Rupert...
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I'm not sure whether he will switch this time... certainly not yet. But he cannot lose by indicating he's toying with the idea of switching... it will make Tony listen even harder and send a message to Cameron that he will want to hear the 'right' things before he pledges full support.
The man is truly powerful and dangerous, make no mistake.
Notice that Stooge Blair is going to meet him later this month, doubtless before he goes on yet another freebie holiday that you won't read about in The Scum. I wonder what Gordon Brown makes of all this...
I don't think he's that powerful, he's certainly not dangerous. And I don't really think he's that harmful, The Times is a decent enough paper. Sky News isn't bad either. And despite all the criticisms I don't see any problem with Fox News. Fox News has an open right wing bias and makes no secret of it - unlike the BBC which portrays itself as impartial but has a subtle liberal bias. Fox News is basically a TV equivalent of talk radio, most of the time it's a shouting match between a 'liberal' and a 'conservative' - which in itself is balanced but Fox often feature stronger conservatives who can argue their case better against weaker liberal opponents.
Anyway neither Sun or Times readers, Sky News viewers or myspace members vote as a bloc, they're not going to base who they vote for on the Murdoch line - the ever eloquent 'The Sun Says' or anything else. Murdoch has ample competition in the UK and USA and it's almost impossible that he could ever amass anything like the dominence Berlusconi has in Italy. And it's a tad patronising to say readers/viewers of the Murdoch media simply form their opinion from Murdoch media outlets, for the average Sun reader for instance they probably face far more exposure to the BBC - and for some Sun readers the Sun is simply reflecting their views and for others they buy The Sun for gossip and a light read. The Sun certainly isn't brainwashing anybody.
Rupert Murdoch is an ultra right wing, ultra neocon, god-bothering, tax-dodging nasty piece of work who wasn't born or lives in this country yet he feels the country should be run as he pleases.
His Fox channel is the single biggest joke in media history. A worthless, lying, manipulating network of lies, myths and propaganda doing the worst of the dirty of work of the neocon movement and about as interested in 'fair and balanced' journalism (or come to think of it, of journalism of any kind) as King Herod was about child welfare.
Elsewhere, the Dirty Digger has various degrees of influence in the editorial line of his newspapers. But it dictates them all. Funny how every single one of his 144 newspapers were fully supportive of the Iraq war...
The Times, being a respected broadsheet instead of the garbage rags he prefers, has some degree of independecy. Some. Murdoch will still dictate which political party the paper is to support, and even demand that the paper is never critical of China because that could harm his multi-billion Pound business interests there. Remember the scandal that broke out a few years ago?
When it comes to the Scum, the control excersided by the Dirty Digger is absolute. The S*n is an ultra right wing, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist, semi-racist despicable, blackmailing hypocritical evil piece of fucking shit. A truly abhorrent and worthless rag that should be blown to pieces by a guided missile, preferably with its staff still inside the building.
It is through the S*n that the ugliest attributes of the Dirty Digger shine with pride. The man is actually a strong social and religious conservative. That doesn't stop him from plastering tits and nookie all over his red-top tabloids. He also loves to rant about benefit cheats and scroungers... forgetting to declare the fact that he himselfs deprives the country of hundreds of millions of Pounds every single year through dodgy tax-avoidance scheme. His persecution of child sex offenders and hard talk about 'evil paedos' is relentless... while at the same time happily sexing up children and publishing insinuating pictures and comments about them so S*n readers can knock one out over them.
He's one of the most evil men alive. Simple as.
To suggest the paper has any power is laughable.
Put it this way, we have the choice to buy his newspapers and watch his tv, but we don't have the choice to not pay the tv licence so that the BBC can publish it's left wing labour bias.
No chance of reading about China's human rights record in his other daily publication, with The Sun preferring to lead instead on Lea from Big Brother's breasts, gypsies swamping the countryside, immigrants taking over the country, and other such drivel.
In fact chances are he had to let the paper do its job only because the policy was uncovered.
On Sundays I buy the Observer and on occasion the Times... and sometimes (take a seat
Only once have I ever bought The Observer myself, and I never read half of it.
If i was Bill Gates id probably throw a few billion dollars at animal charities and saving the rainforrest, but thats all.