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Finally, somebody takes the time to detail the absurd pattern that is Rupert "the media ogre" Murdoch.
The press would never take him on for obvious reasons. It would only make them look bad to point out how awry publishing can become. Yet, long ago as this article repeatedly pointed out, Murdoch spun out of control. Took freedom of the press and misused it like none other. Also, contributed in a central way to making sure that a positive society has to spend an inordinate amount of time looking over its shoulder.
Murdoch's behavior is so telling. We can see through him not just how popular culture's main organ of communication operates and why it often borders on being committed to disrespecting itself. You might even say society in the main is evolving into truth being trampled on because of his type of effort.
To the extent that freedom of speech and its relationship to a free press is important marks exactly the extent to which Murdoch should be defined as a modern day tyrant.
Only free elections in fact stop such people from becoming the horrors of times past. At the rate he's helping to corrupt the popular psyche however maybe not even that checkpoint will hold.
Great job Mr. B.
Viva le Salon!
