The case for campaign finance and media reform

[ProSense]

This is from the NY Post (Murdoch is Clinton's friend):



Murdoch is also a major supporter:

Drugmaker Roche Holding AG gave the maximum allowed to her 2006 campaign. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch threw a fund- raising event for her in July. Even some of President George W. Bush's biggest backers, including Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer John Mack, supported her.

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From Juan Cole:

Rupert Murdoch, who gives you Bill O'Reilly, Daniel Pipes, and other fantasists of the hard Right, by his ownership of a vast media empire, admitted at the Davos conference that his companies had "tried" to propagandize for Bush's Iraq War. He said that they were critical of the execution of the war, though. He doesn't watch or read his own media if he thinks that. It is never a discouraging word and 'what were the RNC talking points today?' over there in Foxland.

Murdoch's remarks are a good reason for which the news conglomerates should be broken up so that a wider range of views can be published. While Murdoch complains about competition from the internet, the fact is that far more people watch television than get their news from any blogger.

Murdoch's media have done more to cheapen American values and drive the country toward fascistic ways of thinking than anything since the McCarthy period in the 1950s. The airwaves belong to the public, and this man only licenses them. When will the public take them back and use them for purposes of which Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Franklin would have approved?

It's time for campaign finance and media reform.

[TayTay]

1. Ah, best friends

and drinking buddies. How nice.

[Island Blue]

2. George W. is going to be jealous! n/t

[ProSense]

3. Right! n/t

[blm]

4. "Thanks for joining me and George, Hill. Lyin about Kerry is fun and addictive."

"You're really GOOD at this, Hill."