Fair and Balanced Talk radio

How to balance talk radio. Sometimes the best ideas come from the strangest places..
Listen to the offer to purchase agreement offered by the Rupert Murdoch (owner of FOX TV)
to the Bancroft family for the purchase of The Wall St Journal.
Rupert proposed having a fairness panel to oversee the editorial section of the paper.
If Rupert himself knows that fair and balanced isn’t fair and balanced maybe we should
use his idea to bring back the fairness doctrine with fairness panels.
Why not balance talk radio with such a panel. Or re balance Fox TV.

Should Murdoch succeed in buying the WSJ champaigne corks will be popping at the FINANCIAL TIMES. The business and financial community will simply not put up with the “Fox Newsification” of their primary source of business news and that would make the “Pink Times” a big winner.

When the history of our era is written, let us hope that Murdock does not get to dictate his own whitewash via his iron grip on public discourse, at least among the ill informed majority. This man bought himself a US citizenship, short-circuiting the usual five-year waiting period, in order to own Fox news, and then promptly used that to help put Bush in the White House. If history speaks clearly, Murdock would be fingered as one of the worst anti-democratic villains of our times, and there are so many!

My hunch is that Murdoch is, if not directly working for, working closely with British intelligence among others. Basically that would make him the head of their ministry of information. Perhaps we Americans can’t imagine such a scenario because we have a hard time seeing past the Citizen Kane architype as media mogul. Why would a modern intelligence network only concern itself with observing and gathering information when it could be so much more productive as a distributor mis-information as well? It seems like the only rule these days is that there are no rules.

I thought Murdoch was the reason we have anti-trust laws in this country. Or used to since we don’t apply it anymore for fear of offending those elite big campaign contributors. Forget Iraq - we need to instill democracy all over again in the USofA. It’s been on life support for decades and the flat line is starting to form.

“Under Murdoch, that legacy of superb reporting and editorial separation would die. As Andrew Neil, a former editor of the London Sunday Times, recently explained in the Journal’s own pages: “I think he would want the news to be informed by the editorial agenda.”

The day the National Enquirer became recognized as a permanent “expert” source on national cable news, I knew the United States, as I had come to believe it was, probably wasn’t.

When the ridiculous comes to be viewed as being a viable source of critically important news, obviously the readers and viewers have been dumbed down to the point where everything of value is being thrown in the trash.

But then, people like trash. Visit our landfills.
People like gossip and lying. The nastier the better. [Have you watched prime-time TV lately?]
People prefer idiocy over fact if it satisfies the need to “bare false witness” and justifies not loving their neighbors as themselves.

And people love to pretend they are rich.

I chuckle when I hear the Wall Street Journal is the number one selling news paper in the country. Must be a great Bird-cage liner. I smile when I hear people knowingly speak of the numbers at the days closing of the DOW. Because I seriously doubt they are all members of the sacred 8% club that actually understands the Stock Market.
But hey ... who am I to burst the wobbly bubble of the great pretenders?

Murdock’s acquiring of the Wall Street Journal will give us all another very good reason to support Independent Media.
Have you made your donation yet?

America is in deep do-do today because of immoral shit-bags like Rupert Murdoch. He is the closet thing to a pure Nazi since Hitler.

Hopefully, one day, Americans will come together and keep rich thugs like Murdoch from infecting our dear country with their neo-Nazi philosophy.

Murdoch’s past crimes already qualify him for the gallows.

Fox News is not enough for Rupert Murdoch.  He seeks to ultimately turn all media into a mouthpiece for his political and financial agenda.  The only thing that will prevent him from eventually becoming the most powerful entity in the world is that he’s a very old man and is running out of time.  I suspect that he equates power with immortality.

The point was the infinate greed, arrogance of Rupert and Cheney. The manipulation of truth of Rupert and Cheney and the pernicous effect it has on our political system. So I really don’t understand what the point is of the response. I never said Rupert shot anybody, or postured on the deck of an aircraft carrier, but he did doctor the news and focus on the invented “news” of Bush/Cheney. So I don’t think my point was extreme or stretched. Do you?

This media pimp owns enough whore media outlets that he has ridiculously ruined. We’re sick of his extra conservative right-wing propaganda canonizing colonial imperialism as revisionist history. I hope Murdock dies before the Bancrofts relent. I hope all concerned join forces to string this evil rat out forever. There needs to be a stop put to this guy after what he did to FOX. The National Enquirer has greater credibility than FOX news, all thanks to Rupert Murdock. We can’t have that terrible predicament befall the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones. Murdock’s atrocious spin-heathens and his monstrous public misinformation machine have done enough harm. Stop that fool NOW!

I usually like Australians, but Rupert is just Cheney with an accent. Our news media should be required to be owned by native born Americans and the conglomerate news ownership should be disolved. This monopoly by right wing nut cases and greedy SOBs is corrupting our already too corrupt political process. Rupert is the poster child, Left Leaning news media, don’t make me laugh.