Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
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A scandal rocking Rupert Murdoch’s media empire deepened on Thursday with claims his best-selling News of the World paper hacked the phones of relatives of British soldiers killed in action. The latest allegations prompted News Corp to shut down the 168-year-old tabloid. Here’s a look at the rest of the empire.
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The Kingmaker!
Empire of scandals.
The most powerful man in the world because the human brain works just like the computer rule GIGO – garbage in, garbage out. Throw in enough sensationalism, repeat the lies often enough, and many viewers become your robots. They will spread your propaganda like a virus. Even vote against their own financial self interest, in favor of his.
No single person or entity should be in control of that much media. That’s just begging for trouble.
Zeitgeist New World Order revisited? It seems somehow conspiracy theorists understate the case! Great graphics!
The NOTW saga is a microcosm. The galvanisation of public anger about the issue has been remarkable but not completely surprising. So many issues encapsulated in one incident : Boundary violation; Disrespect of the dead; Interfering in a police investigation; Sensationalism to sell papers; Power plays; Favouritism; The Jewish control angle; Concentration of media ownership and political intrigue. When the zeitgeist of a nation reaches a certain point it doesn’t take much of a spark to set off a wildfire. To be fair to the Murdochs the closure of the paper was decided pretty quickly. A mortal wound had been inflicted. There was no point trying to flog a dead horse anymore. The world needs good media outlets not one’s like NOTW. Regarding journalism…
“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumours and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman (1862)
Insurance Policies
9/11 cover-story
7/7 cover-story
What you see in Britain is what is going on in the US. This is the 21st Century Joseph Goebbels in what he calls “news, and truth.”
Democracy Inaction.
Free Pressed.
Ugh.
This chart makes Murdoch look like a modern day Citizen Kane.
Whatever happens, today is a sad day for investigative journalism. Not all journalists at the NOTW were bad apples, just like not all MPs were not expense fiddlers and not all bankers were fat cats.
Check out my view at http://dasteepsspeaks.blogspot.com/2011/ 07/news-is-screwed.html
You might also be interested in my view on the disgrace that is the PCC: http://dasteepsspeaks.blogspot.com/2011/ 07/fall-of-another-flop.html
This half the picture of his empire …!!! It doesn’t show the 175 newspapers magazines he owns