The problem with this free country is that, foreigners with loads of money can come here and enrich themselves further by purchasing chunks of our media base and disseminating destructive propaganda across our airwaves. We spend too much time analyzing and obsessing about Glenn Beck, Hannity, O'reilly and their ilk. However, those that give them their platform to spew hate and untruths are the ones responsible for disseminating their propaganda into our society. We live in a society where some 46 million or so, voted for the McCain - Palin ticket. There are lots of clueless, lost sheep in America who are too lazy to do any homework and are thus extremely easy to manipulate. The FCC needs to revise our cable networks by enacting a revised broadcast regulatory act in order to protect us all. The dumbers (aka birthers, birchers, etc.,) are extremely dangerous, they are holding us back and they will take us all down with them into oblivion. Guess who is holding their leash?
America as a sovereign nation is no longer sovereign and will not be a force to reckon with in the long run if things don't change. We are allowing people who genuinely hate this country and our way of life to infiltrate our airwaves and spread their propaganda to alter the balance of power in order to solidify their stranglehold on the masses. Murdoch does not love this country. He is an Aussie with a British passport and is also a United States citizen. How can our constitution allow this triple citizenship?
Beginning with one newspaper in Adelaide, Murdoch acquired and started other publications in his native Australia before expanding News Corp into the UK, US and Asian media markets. It was in the UK that he diversified into TV, creating Sky Television in 1989. In the 2000s he became a leading investor in satellite television, the film industry and the Internet. Now, this guy runs the Fox media empire. To him, the acquisition thing is just a game. You run your business like a tabloid through gossip, sensationalizing, while spreading lies and innuendos to get your audience. Thereafter, your ratings sky rocket, you crush your competition and make loads of money, then you buy up the competition and castrate your enemies.
Murdoch is notorious for using his media empire to manipulate political leaders and has a perverted desire to see leaders in power licking his balls; In Britain, Murdoch acquired The Times (and The Sunday Times)in 1981. The distinction of owning The Times came to him through his careful undermining of its owner, until he grew tired of losing money on it.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Murdoch's publications were generally supportive of the UK's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[5] At the end of the Thatcher/Major era, Murdoch switched his support to the Labour Party and the party's leader Tony Blair. The closeness of his relationship with Blair and their secret meetings to discuss national policies was to become a political issue in Britain. When Blair refused to let himself be a pawn in Murdoch's games, he issued the marching orders to turn on Blair and begin undermining the labor party members and Blair's wife.
Still hungry for more power, he set his sights on the United States where his previous acquisitions like the San Antonio-Express News, the tabloid magazine, Star and the New York Post had been laying dormant. Despite the fact that in 1995, Murdoch's Fox Network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when it was alleged that News Ltd.'s Australian base made Murdoch's ownership of Fox illegal, the FCC still ruled in Murdoch's favor, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the best interests of the public. Really? In the same year, Murdoch announced a deal with MCI Communications to develop a major news website and magazine, The Weekly Standard.
Then in 1996, Murdoch decided to enter the cable news market with the Fox News Channel. Quoted by very reliable sources at the time, Murdoch stated that he hated CNN founder Ted Turner's guts and nothing else would please him more than to cut his balls off. Turner walked away from CNN shortly after ratings began to slide.
Rupert Murdoch is on track to ruin our country, our culture and the American way of life. A closer look at his most recent acquisitions will cause one to pause and ask the question :"when is enough, enough"?
In late 2003, Murdoch acquired a 34 percent stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of the largest American satellite TV system, DirecTV, from General Motors for $6 billion. On July 20, 2005, News Corp. bought Intermix Media Inc., which held MySpace.com and other popular social networking-themed websites for $580 million. On September 11, 2005, News Corp. announced that it would buy IGN Entertainment for $650 million.
At 78 years old, Rupert Murdoch is an old man and knows he has about a dozen years or so to live. His vision is to see us all dissolve into drooling, schizophrenic nincompoops before he checks out and leaves our fate in the hands of his twisted sons, Lachlan and James.
Who in their right mind will give such a powerful platform to Glenn Beck, Bill O'reilly, Sean Hannity and their ilk? Who will do this, knowing fully well that these are very dangerous, narcissistic entertainers addicted to their own fame and twisted logic? There's got to be a way for the FCC to crack down on this madness and take our airwaves back. This nation will collapse unless we calibrate certain aspects of the freedom of speech act and offer up one very important caveat - that the truth be told in our news cycle.