Rupert Murdoch and David Koch Collude Against Wisconsin Workers

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Rupert Murdoch and David Koch Collude Against Wisconsin Workers
By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Posted on February 25, 2011, Printed on February 26, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150047/

In the week-long battle taking place in Wisconsin over Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights, you'd expect Fox News to be doing what it's done: misreporting the story, mistakenly characterizing a poll supporting public workers to mean its opposite, featuring Glenn Beck painting the protests of union workers as something cooked up by Stalinists. And you might be tempted to think, well, that's just Fox playing to its base of frightened Tea Partiers who prefer a fact-free zone to the more challenging territory of actual news, where the answers are never pat, and the world is a bit more complicated than it seems in the realm of Fox Nation.

You might think it's all about what brings in the advertising dollars for Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Fox's parent company, News Corporation. But it runs much deeper than that, involving key players at the Wall Street Journal, News Corp.'s crown jewel. The informal partnership between billionaire David Koch, whose campaign dollars and astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, have fomented the Wisconsin crisis, and billionaire Rupert Murdoch, is profoundly ideological -- the ideology being the exponential enrichment of the two men's heirs, all dressed up in the language of libertarianism and free enterprise. Together with his brother, Charles -- also a big donor to right-wing causes --David Koch runs Koch Industries, the conglomerate that sprang from the oil and gas company founded by his father.

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http://www.alternet.org/news/150047/rupert_murdoch_and_david_koch_collude_against_wisconsin_workers/

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1. As Walker told "Koch" in between his bloviated bragging, he could use some "help".

Looking at the media coverage on the protests, where distinguishing between the good guys & the bad guys couldn't be more obvious, can there now be any doubt that the U.S. media is no better than the state-owned, communist propaganda we learned about in the '50's & '60's?