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> Rupert Murdoch is somewhat a foreigner to you, He gave up his Australian citizenship to further his US business interests. He is widely considered to be an e
by crispinb 7y ago
> Rupert Murdoch is somewhat a foreigner to you,
He gave up his Australian citizenship to further his US business interests. He is widely considered to be an enemy of the nation. I regret my 'foreigner' cheap shot though. It's irrelevant, even a tad xenophobic.
> Their press may be a "far right press" by Australian standards, but over here they make donations to our more-left party.
Fox News!
The fact that Murdoch may attempt to smear his malign influence also over corporate Dems (a standard balanced corruption portfolio) is little mitigation.
> James Murdoch gave the legal maximum amount to Pete Buttigieg
Different person.
- burfog 7y agoIf you're going to apply the adjective "far" to Fox News, then you'll also need to apply it to the New York Times. According to Pew Research, that is more to the left than Fox is to the right. I think "far" should be reserved for Slate, Breitbart, NPR, New Yorker, Glenn Beck Program, Daily Show, Sean Hannity Show, Colbert Report, Rush Limbaugh Show, Daily Kos, TheBlaze, Mother Jones. ABC is near the center. Here is a chart centered on that, and you can pick others by clicking on the dots below: https://www.journalism.org/interactives/media-polarization/outlet/abc-news/ https://www.journalism.org/interactives/media-polarization/o... BTW, now that I think of it, Americans have a stronger case that a foreigner is running their news. By some measures, an Australian is running the largest news source. The change of citizenship is just a business tactic to enable that.
- crispinb 7y ago> Americans have a stronger case that a foreigner is running their news We'll accept blame for his having been spawned, but he's totally yours now!