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POPSCensorship Disguised as Fairness
Now, poor, abused and deprived leftist politicians are demanding the revival of what they call the Fairness Doctrine, created and enacted for a while in the 1980s, aimed supposedly at balanced use of public airwaves. You may remember that, during the life of that regulation, all media had to struggle to provide equal time to virtually any and every political opinion. It wreaked such expensive havoc and confusion on the airwaves that it became difficult to get anything on. The canny Rupert Murdoch encouraged a “fair and balanced,” though admittedly conservative, Fox News Network, and it eventually it out-rated CNN and all other cable offerings, hands down. Why? Because ordinary citizens liked what they were viewing, and collectively applauded the opinions expressed. And they greatly appreciated hearing and seeing news being reported without the obvious filtering of liberal bias. At last, somebody in broadcasting was giving the public what it clearly wanted.
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POPSMr. Murdoch Goes To War This would be music to the ears of any newsroom, so hope mingled with the professional dread in Murdoch’s audience that afternoon. He may be awful, but he is rich and awful, smart and awful, powerful and awful, and while he may well be crazy to still believe in the future of print, he is determined and crazy. Murdoch might be the last person The Journal would have chosen as its savior, but newspapers may well be down to last hopes. What does he see that others do not? What is his vision for one of America’s most venerated dailies? Can he really grow The Journal in such a hostile economic climate? And if he succeeds, might The Wall Street Journal as we know it, and as millions of readers have loved it, cease to exist?
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POPSThe "Dark Genius" of Fox News "To me, that's the smoking gun if you're looking for evidence that Fox News is as much a partisan political machine as a news organization. I think TVN is a great piece of evidence in that whole puzzle. And Joe Coors played the role of Rupert Murdoch in that. Basically, Ailes learned how to run a national news service. He learned how to get stories to deadline, he learned how journalists work the news, but most importantly, he learned from Coors and his associates, people like Jack Wilson, how to try and manipulate the news product. Because the Coors people, they wanted a conservative news service, they were frustrated they couldn't get that because it turned out the reporters they hired were too professional."
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POPSFOX not so NEWS I wonder, when the FCC shuts that crap down. Freedom of speech..or slurred speech.. muckrakers. Hitler would be proud of that bunch of propagandists. No wonder that Rockefeller thanks Murdoch. Their propaganda Mouth.
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POPSHELLO FELLOW LUNATICS AND FASCISTS! You won't believe the audacity of one Bill O'Reilly. He in all his delusional big headed bubbleness is calling anyone who leans left (you know those who think and care about others and our planet) Lunatics and Fascists... (FASCISTS, HUH? A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism...)talk about the POT calling the kettle black)! I can't stand this big ASS-A-HOLA, who can? But what baffles me to no end are his viewers. The man is a hateful bigot and he doesn't even try to hide this fact. I guess we really are a racist, sexist, xenophobic society (well those who watch Bill O'Reilly and believe him, anyway)... It's so pathetic! Please watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBwJqzdajc
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POPSBrilliant Quote I like direct answers, and it sounds like Murdoch was supplying them. I love the Alaska quote most. He was described as the sharpest at D6. Someone else got funniest.
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POPSMurdoch Thwarted This is a surprising turn of events. Murdoch was willing to offer $580 million for Newsday because he could combine the paper with his New York Post and save a bunch of money. Dolan's Cablevision lacks the same synergy opportunities with Newsday but he was willing to pay $70 million more. There's no good explanation why so far, but a lot of people are wondering.
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POPSByte THIS We have reduced crucifixion to a 10 second sound byte. Remember all they said about Jesus is "He said he could destroy the Temple." Do we really want GE and Rupert Murdoch to have the power to destroy a good man in 2-3 sound bytes?
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POPSBill Kristol's Obscure Masterpiece After watch Jon Stewart skewer Kristol on The Daily Show, and see him try to STILL defend the war in Iraq, I hadda clip this enlightening strory...The guy embodies how the MSM is corrupt.
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POPSMYSpace Exiles Atheists As this belief in the right to suppress “offensive” speech is coupled with increasingly centralized, private control of both new and old media, it poses increasing and potentially overwhelming threats to free speech. We can
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POPSFour examples of the unwisdom of assuming that we know all we need to know about the climate The Murdoch diktat: Rupert Murdoch, who owns or controls much of the world’s media of communication, issued an edict to all his editors in the early summer of 2007 to the effect that they were in future to reflect his opinion that “global warming” was the worst threat faced by humankind. Murdoch cited the long drought in Australia as evidence for “global warming” – an instance of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Within two weeks of the Murdoch diktat, much of Australia had been inundated by unprecedented floods. Given the proven unpredictability of the climate, anyone who says, “The Debate Is Over” is merely displaying scientific ignorance of a long-established result in elementary chaos theory as applied to the climate.
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POPSSIBEL EDMONDS STORY OF FBI COVERUP UNREPORTED IN US MEDIA comment by peterrb1 in the dailykos: This whole disturbing episode shames almost everyone involved with it: the press, the participants, and the supposed overseers, Congress. I can see why the corporate press and Congress do not want to touch this: if the details are only half true, the revulsion towards US Governmental institutions and its’ people would make the reaction to Watergate look like a mild tantrum. The knowing and willing betrayal of American nuclear secrets for personal gain on a pervasive institutional level that crosses the partisan divide and covers political and career bureaucrats is concrete confirmation of a popular attitude, “They are all crooks!”
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POPSWhy WSJ.com Won't Go Free Blodget makes a good argument for Murdoch keeping the WSJ in a subscriber model...a pretty bold prediction, given the rest of the industry's assurances that the wall is about to come down.
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POPSObama's Globalist, Neocon Foreign Policy Barack who advocates "change" is also a CFR member. Both the democrat and republican establishment, with variations, are leading the same direction. His absolute allegiance to Israel (therefore the Israeli Lobby) is here documented, which is the basis for the middle east conflicts and the neocon agenda. One should be concerned when William Kristol (neocon PNAC member) gives plugs for Obama. Hillary is being supported by Rupert Murdoch of FOX. Edwards is a member of Bilderberg. None of the "lead" candidates will restore freedom for individual liberty.
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POPSThe Facebook betrayal - users revolt over advertising sell-out Would Clipmarks ever be so crass? If what Clippers clipped and popped was content analysed, it would be a gold mine for marketing companies. Do Forbes know this? Such an analysis would be very useful and ethical of the individuals names were stripped from the data. Marketers and pollsters would still get a unique picture of what people are interested in.
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POPSMurdoch Says WSJ.com To Be Free No surprises here, although still no word yet on exactly when WSJ.com will drop its subscription wall. Presumably, it will be after News Corp.'s closes its acquisition of Dow Jones. The takeover is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
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POPS News Corp Quells Unrest In Pro-Western Georgia The US and its Coalition allies can ill-afford to ignore this week's developments in the small but geo-strategically significant Caucasus nation of Georgia. Major outside players including Vladimir Putin and Rupert Murdoch are involved in a story involving media and politics. The events in Georgia, including unrest involving some 50,000 people and President Mikhail Saakashvili's crackdown, are not just a political fight between the ruling government and the opposition. It is part of a complex struggle involving the old Russian guard, business oligarchs, and a media outlet in the continuing battle with leftist tyrants masquerading as "progressives." The opposition parties are trying to rearrange political alliances to effectively counter Shaakashvili's National Movement bloc, and are scrambling to find a replacement leader to salvage what turned out to be a politically suicidal week of demonstrations.
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