A few years back I read a magazine article about Rupert Murdoch in which one of his close friends was quoted as saying the media mogul is a “liberal.”
When I bring that up, people scoff.
I tell them Rupert Murdoch is not about politics or ideology; he’s about power and money.
Much like the millionaires of The Gilded Age, he attained money and power because he saw a need and met it. Rush Limbaugh was knocking ‘em dead on the radio, and Murdoch used his resources to kick off Fox News.
In the fall, his FoxBiz, a 24-hour cable business channel, will rival CNBC and give conservative viewers more of what they’ve come to expect from Fox News.
Murdoch is news himself. Over the last few days, there have been stories about his $6 billion bid to buy out Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, both of which would be nice supplements to FoxBiz. The Bancroft family, leading Dow Jones shareholders, are saying “No dice.” LINK
On Wednesday, Murdoch announced that News Corp has launched a major initiative aimed at bringing its carbon emissions count, or “carbon footprint,” down from 641,150 tons to zero by 2010.
In taking the initiative, Murdoch said climate change could have devastating effects. Read how he plans to achieve his goal: LINK
Murdoch is one of the “Featured Members” of former President Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI. Members pledge to do something over a period of 10 years that will improve the world. (For a list of all the featured members: LINK)
From the CGI Web site (LINK):
“The Clinton Global Initiative is a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.”
It’s not clear if Murdoch’s effort to eliminate global warming is part of his CGI pledge. While members are profiled on the CGI Web site, I could find no information there about individual pledges. (It’s possible I couldn’t see the link.)
I don’t get Rupert Murdoch.
It’s apparent he set Fox News into motion, then put Roger Ailes at the helm to handle its programming.
Fox News’ entire cadre of anchors and talk-show hosts want its viewers to believe globabl warming is a joke.
Brit Hume yuck-yucks the issue every chance he gets. Sean Hannity loves to make fun of Al Gore’s climate change efforts. None would admit to seeing "An Inconvenient Truth."
How does Rupert Murdoch justify his commendable efforts to reduce carbon emissions with his flagship Fox News’ propaganda that human beings have nothing to do with global warming?
And, how does he sleep at night?
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Sir Cumspect; You have answered your own question. It is about power, not to be confused with money, which follows. Power, in the Iraq-to-be will be in the hands of the Shi'ia, who have seen it wrested from the hands of the Sunni. The Shi'ia do not give a tinker's damn about Iraq, which has existed for less than a century, they care about the struggle for power which has lasted 1500 years. When the US leaves, the bloodbath will occur, but it will not be Iraqis who die, it will be the Sunni.
Murdoch cares not for the issues, but he does care for power. The money follows. Everything he does, he does for power not for money.
What do we do, fools that we are? We help install a Shi'ia government and we watch Fox News.
Murdoch's antics does prove that conservatism is the handmaiden of liberalism.
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