Huffington Post political reporter Sam Stein appeared on "The Rachel Maddow Show" Wednesday to discuss Rupert Murdoch's recent comments about Fox News and its competitors.
On Tuesday evening, the News Corp. founder spoke at a forum for the public affairs TV series, The Kalb Report, and turned accusations of a Fox News bias on their head by instead claiming that it was CNN and MSNBC that "tend to be Democrats." During a question and answer session, Murdoch struggled to name a single Democrat who worked for the channel. Unfamiliar with his own network's support for the Tea Party movement, Murdoch said that it would not be ethical for Fox to support Tea Partiers.
Maddow asked Stein to explain how it could be that a man who has made himself the "public and political face" of his media properties, could sound so out of step with his own network.
Stein: "There's obviously the element of plausible deniability, Fox's motto is 'Fair and Balanced' and to admit that you've sort of boosted the Tea Parties would remove that veneer. Secondly, keep in mind, Murdoch is the recent owner of The Wall Street Journal and by all accounts, he's been trying very hard to make that an on-level competitor with The New York Times so perhaps his attention is divided elsewhere. But also this is a man who is very much devoted to ratings. And love it or not, Fox News gets a lot of good ratings. And so maybe he's simply entrusted the enterprise to Roger Ailes under the premise that as long as he can deliver viewers, what's the harm."
Murdoch, Stein explained, is ultimately a businessman, and in the current political climate, it makes good business sense to ride the Tea Party's furor.
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As we see the beginning of photo-realistic CGI, we will also witness the worst propaganda the world community has ever known. I'll bet NewsCorp will be at the forefront with videographically believable lies which will probably incite a civil war. The 'teams' will be as such: peace loving liberals who want the world to be a better place, and gun-toting religious fanatics who want the world to be a whiter place. The latter will happily knaw the skulls of the former. All the reasonable middle-of-the-road people will move to Mexico or Canada.
Sir Richard Branson: "if we let him, Murdoch will destroy democracy".
Murdoch will destroy democracy-
We were warned:
Australians warned us not to allow Rupert Murdoch to infiltrate our free press standards
England warned us not to allow Rupert Murdoch to infiltrate our free press standards
Sir Richard Branson : "if we let him, Murdoch will destroy democracy".
We ignored Australia and England- look at the dumb down we got!
WSJ- Dumb it Down President!
Wall Street Journal- Once the most trustworthy news in the WORLD
Pitiful and shameful
WSJ: Dumb it Down Mr. President!
And if Fox would quit makin stuff up, Rachel wouldn't have to spend so much time to reveal the truth.
"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. " - Adlai E. Stevenson
If the US wants to start disbanding the disinformation system, we need to start by revoking US citizenship of this man. In civil court, before Congress, I don't care where, but when a person wants something destroyed forever, they destroy the root. Well, where's the root of most of the disinformation? 98% of every source of media I hear on a 24 hour basis is owned by R. Murdoch. How about you?
If you want to control a nation, control its media
and try another direction.
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So it is from that I will say that Rupert Murdoch is the greatest threat that America faces. Use Mathew 7 and the Beatitudes to form your opinion of Rupert Murdoch , don't accept mine.
Rupert Murdoch knows exactly the policy at FOX network because he sets it. But he lies and his minions make excuses for his lies making themselves complicit in the lie. FOX is an extremist, conservative, news network, that tears America apart, when it should stirve to bring Harmony to America. FOX network is a continuous broadcast of the most radical views simply to polarize America, when it should strive to Unite America. Murdoch is Citizen Kane resurrected to a power of 10. Perhaps he has used W.R. Hearst as a template for his life. His power and wealth is so great that he can almost forecast who will or will not be elected. The FCC and the Courts favour his appeals. He is a Juggernaut no government can slow down. America will see his power displayed in Nov if the Voters choose unwisely.
Australians warned us not to allow Rupert Murdoch to infiltrate our free press standards
England warned us not to allow Rupert Murdoch to infiltrate our free press standards
Sir Richard Branson : "if we let him, Murdoch will destroy democracy".
We ignored Australia and England- look at the dumb down we got!
WSJ- Dumb it Down President!
Wall Street Journal- Once the most trustworthy news in the WORLD
Pitiful and shameful
WSJ: Dumb it Down Mr. President!
Once again-
Sir Richard Branson: "if we let him, Murdoch will destroy democracy".
Murdoch will destroy democracy-
Fair and Balanced = Unfair and Imbalanced. Orwell's vision is truly realized in Faux Noise.
Does the employment application for news shows have a box to check informing their employer of their political leanings?
That instead he ratcheted up the reactionary propaganda is the biggest clue that what he's about is political influence among the right wing (aka, fascist) "haves and have mores," pure and simple.
He continues the same hate mongering in the U.S. and still holds onto his citizenship. I think this bum should be kicked out of the country. He is in the forefront of the Corporations trying to bring down this government.
People are getting deported right and left for having committed some minor infraction years ago and heaven forbid you stole a loaf of bread in any other country in the world and tried to enter the U.S., you would be s... out of luck. It ain't going to happen. You will not be given a visa to visit.
Most new jobs are generated by very small corporations. But these are increasingly unable to compete with the giants. Every single industry and profession (law, medicine, architecture, etc.) is increasinly owned by fewer and fewer people. Inevitably, this leads to decline and stagnation abd downright manipulation of facts for corporate interests.
Murdoch has been successful in every country by playing to the poorest, dumbest, and most poorly educated people in the country and religious hacks. Roger Ailes is Murdoch's henchmen and honestly doesn't appear to care what sells - in interviews he simply says it's all about the ratings. Roger Ailes is Babba the Hut in every sense from evil to appearance.
This insidious political cancer didn't happen with a single event, but by eating away at the protections in banking, political contributions, lobbying congress, environmental controls, consumer protection, etc. etc. .
People who watch Fox News and don't realize that it is propaganda do not have the mental or educational tools to realize that they are being manipulated to keep the system growing.
Personally, however, I get worried when I see FOXNews commentators, post-election, talking about how to "re-brand" the Republican Party. Is the GOP trying to find real leaders or are they just trying to sell something?
Furthermore, not at all true that they air all sides of a story.
You seem a little confused about who "makes up things as they go"