The News Corporation - Political Propaganda!

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The News Corporation - Political Propaganda!

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Rupert Murdoch has come clean and admitted that he controls the political 'bent' of most of his tabloid newspapers with only the Times and Sunday Times escaping his editorial control (though by how much we can never be sure). It is interesting to see that and I wonder how many people are 'up in arms' by the newspaper reports. Eventually he could be in a position to put pressure on government based on the media output he can control. (if this is not happening already!).
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Murdoch is a bastard.
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I'm inclined to agree with Chomsky's take on it: newspapers exist to sell markets to advertisers. Serving the political interests of the rich is just a nice bonus.

I'm also inclined to agree with Andy on Murdoch.
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