Murdoch & News Corps -- The cancer eating the heart out of our democracy
By Ted Newcomen
Recent coverage of the trials & tribulations of Rupert Murdoch and his New Corps group has largely been confined to the UK -- but similar, if not worse problems, are being totally overlooked here in the United States. The game may yet be up for Murdoch in London but his grip on US news and politics is even more powerful and insidious, as he gets a free ride from America's "lamestream' media and support from his corrupt lick-spittle lackeys in Washington and Wall Street.
If it's true that the knowledge of certain impending death concentrates the mind and clarifies what's really important in life then I recommend readers watch the final recorded interview with the English writer and TV dramatist Dennis Potter.
Made in April 1994, only 8 weeks before his death from pancreatic cancer, the interview says much about Potter's view of modern life and even more about Rupert Murdoch and his pernicious influence on news distribution and the political process.
Potter actually had a pet name for the cancer that was eating away inside him, "Rupert'.
He gave it this seemingly harmless soubriquet so he could "get close to it'. He went on to explain that as a writer the ideal plot may be where someone (like him) had only three months to live and who would they choose to kill?
Potter chose the Australian media mogul because "there is no one person more responsible for the pollution of what was already a fairly polluted press. And the pollution of the British press is an important part of the pollution of British political life and it's an important part of the cynicism and misperception of our own realities that is destroying so much of our political discourse'.
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