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Rupert Murdoch’s Cultural RevolutionPosted on Jan 2, 2012
It takes master documentarian Adam Curtis only five minutes to explain what Rupert Murdoch’s war on elitism (and taste) has to do with Google. Advertisement Previous item: A Culturally Sensitive Teach-In With Victoria Jackson Next item: 'Democracy Now!': About That Whole Iowa Caucus Thing New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
By Egomet Bonmot, January 4 at 12:49 am Link to this comment
The idea and much of the footage in this Murdoch piece is taken from Curtis’s amazing 2011 BBC documentary “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.” See the preview for it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2011/may/06/documentary-internet-adam-curtis
Report thisBy mullet911, January 3 at 6:29 am Link to this comment
I think he is trying to say something about the Yuppy
era. Something like the Fukuyama idea that a fluid
meritocracy through capitalism can bring about
democracy. This turned into: Free Trade is just.
I think we have seen pretty clearly in the last 20
Report thisyears that so-called free trade does not produce just
societies.