I can hand on heart say I have never once bought any of his papers.
And as for alternatives, I don't watch the X Factor, I'm A Celebrity, Dragon's Den, or any of those types of shows, yet I still end up hearing about them. My big problem with it is that it is fucking inescapable. I actively avoid these things when I can, and even I end up knowing what who is in the finals of these shithouse shows.

Yes, the people who buy the papers are to blame, but when those people are born and raised in an environment he helped shape and create, is it any wonder people go out and buy those papers? You're making the mistake of thinking that people start out by making a completely unbiased choice of what they're going to read.

in much the same way that you grow up knowing that you're not meant to walk down the road naked, people are now growing up thinking that fame is something to aspire to, and it's rapidly becoming the case that people are also growing up thinking that fame is easy to achieve by going on some shitty gameshow, and that that is somehow a viable career choice.

Go watch the second episode of "Black Mirror". I think that is a startlingly horrific and feasible vision of the future that Murdoch has had a big hand in trying to create...
( PMGT -Bacon., Tue 3 Jan 2012, 1:34, 1 reply)

Exactly right.
Notions of supply and demand aren't as clear cut when Murdoch and his kind are the ones creating said demand. They're like drug dealers giving free samples to children to get them hooked early on. Except even drug dealers wouldn't have the audacity to claim that they were only dealing smack because so many people want it.

That Black Mirror was depressingly feasible. The worst part was the way that they were living in this nightmarish dystopia, and nobody really noticed or cared.
(Spectacular Biscuits, Tue 3 Jan 2012, 10:56, closed)