It may well say “News” on the tin, but that is definitely not a Ronseal style indication of what you’re going to get. Indeed Fox News is the diametric opposite of a news channel. It is a single point of view impersonating the news, and that single point of view belongs to Rupert Murdoch, or Beelzebub as I like to call him. Sir Harold Evans, the editor of The Sunday Times between 1967 and 1981, described Murdoch as “evil incarnate” in his evidence, under oath, to the Leveson Inquiry. The playwright Dennis Potter named his cancer after him. Roger Simon, the chief political columnist of Politico, recalls a conversation with Murdoch after he had purchased the newspaper he worked for. “I don’t understand anything about American sport,” confessed Murdoch, “but I know the coloureds like it.”
Murdoch was able to buy The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981 without the...
Murdoch was able to buy The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981 without the...
- 6/3/2013
- by Basil Creese Jr
- Obsessed with Film
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