Indonesian dictator Soeharto died yesterday. He was one of the 20th centuries most brutal dictators, killing over one million people in the name of strengthening his rule. The Australian newspaper, however, decides to praise the man and primarily discusses his economic “reforms”. Of course, if Cambodia’s Pol Pot had left his country in better financial…
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Murdoch praises the greatest man on the planet
Fox News is a channel truly sponsored by the White House (its latest show is below, need one say more?):
Why the silence?
Daniel Ellsberg, Brad Blog, January 20: For the second time in two weeks, the entire U.S. press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch’s London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation. But there is a worse journalistic sin than being scooped, and that is…
The role of journalists, part 253
Journalists are increasingly paying the ultimate price for simply doing their job: The number of journalists killed worldwide spiked to the highest number in more than a decade, with nearly half killed in Iraq, according to an analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based independent organization that compiles information on the deaths…
Murdoch knows a few things about bias
Fox News thinks blogs are biased (pot kettle black delusion of the day):
Let him own everything
Rupert Murdoch would like to own the New York Times. And why not? Isn’t it terribly unfair that one man can’t simply own all media outlets in a country? Poor Rupert. He’d probably really enjoy life in a one-party state where all the media is controlled by a central authority.
Fox News porn
Rupert Murdoch must be so proud. On the one hand, his Australian broadsheet declares victory in Iraq – after all, ethnic cleansing isn’t really that important to leader writers in Sydney – and elsewhere his Fox News channel promotes conservative values by showing as much female flesh as possible:
Analysis of a blind man
Rupert Murdoch says he “knows a bit about” Iraq and Afghanistan, thinks Australian troops should remain in Iraq and believes that Western victories in the ravaged countries are at hand. Would that prediction be accurate as his belief in 2003 that one of the benefits of the Iraq war would be US$20 barrels of oil?…