Rupert Murdoch Admits Media Manipulation
I guess this is not earth shattering news, but Rupert Murdoch has admitted he HAS tried to shape his news to support a biased view.
Just another reason why I don't watch Fox News/Sky News for any other reason than to just laugh at how biased things are!
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DavyBoyInGravyJoy Grey Goose Vodka on Ice, nothing finer, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 11:46,
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as you say, it's not exactly groundbreaking news,
but it is extremely worrying and saddening when you consider that the readers of a fair few of his rags and viewers of his stations won't realise this, and take most things therein as gospel...
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Just Flange, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:00,
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I love how he recently came back to Australia and tried to give us advice on how we should spend our money.
Hey, Rupert, maybe if you didn't become a US citizen to dodge our tax laws we'd have some extra money to spend.
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gronkpan, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:01,
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Hah
"We can't change elections" at 0:28 made me splutter tea; what a daft old man
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Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 12:17,
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"We can't change elections"
There is a very famous front page headline from when Tony Blair was elected in one of his papers. It ran "It was The Sun wot won it".
This is basically a non-story though, news media could never be entirely objective, even if it wanted to be. They will always have an influence, and want/need an influence over people. Murdoch underplays it and implies it is only for benevolent means, I doubt a rigorous study of his media outlets would bare that out.
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