Murdoch In America – The Fox Will Survive, by Mike Gold Brainiac on Banjo #232

July 18, 2011 Mike Gold 1 Comment

To my friends on the American left who are dancing in the street celebrating what they are certain will the collapse of Rupert Murdoch’s ultra-right wing über-tacky media empire, I say “put your dancing shoes back on their trees and get serious.”

Liberals always make the mistake of believing when a moral outrage is exposed the public will rise up and the perpetrators will get what’s coming to them. Then they get in their hybrid cars and self-righteously drive to the nearest BP for their monthly fill-up, locomoting past both the forest and the trees.

Rupert is in deep trouble and that will cost him a lot. His people tapped and manipulated cellphones. That makes his company, NewsCorp, criminals. They tapped the cellphone of a murdered child. That’s horrible. They eliminated cellphone messages, thereby giving the child’s parents and loved ones the hope that the girl was still alive. That’s hideous. And it appears as though his people tapped the cellphones of 9-11 victims and perhaps their family and associates – those “I’m gonna die honey, I love you” messages uttered before they leapt from the falling towers into oblivion. That’s the act of monsters. These stunts, and these stunts alone, disqualify Rupert and his minions from fellowship in humanity.

Rupert cannot say he was totally unaware of these practices. Like William Randolph Hearst before him, Murdoch reads each of his newspapers every day. If he was ignorant of their practices, he knew enough to ask. In penance he folded his weekly News Of The World, the largest circulation English-language newspaper on Earth and one of the few that are at all profitable. I would say “that’s got to hurt,” but everybody knows when and if all this dies down he’ll simply replace it with a Sunday edition of The Sun, a tabloid of similar sleaze quotient.

As the scandal has been growing, those who were subjugated by Murdoch have been trying to get their dues. This includes two prime ministers and a whole lot of very powerful people. Even though NewsCorp is an American company, if you think that will put an end to Fox News and the New York Post, let alone the Wall Street Journal, you’ve been huffing Prius fumes.

The problem with the American holdings is that as far as Rupert was concerned, they are only there to expand his power. Murdoch does not run them; they are run by Roger Alies.

If Rupert was the Republican Party’s Le Chiffre, Roger is the Republican Party’s Goebbels. He’s the guy responsible for making NewsCorps’ entire American “news” operation what it is today: a pile of lying sensationalistic bullshit that actively rouses the rabble to the Republican’s point of view, gets people paranoid over those lies, and turns out the Tea Party vote. Remember that first Tea Party rally in Washington? It was entirely sponsored by Alies, Murdoch and their buddies.

These people have lost tens of millions of dollars each year on the New York Post alone. They’re not in it for profit. They’re in it for power.

So, let’s say Murdoch loses his empire. What happens to Ailes, the Post, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal?

Simple. They get sold… most likely to a corporation heavily funded by people like the Koch Brothers, the third wealthiest people in America who happen to have funded the Tea Party out of their spare change and have donated $196 million dollars during the last 10 years to ultra-conservative causes.

If the Koch Brothers don’t want to finance this on their own, I’m sure Murdoch will bundle the news operation with, say, the rest of Fox – the movie studio, the television, cable and sports networks, the television stations, The Simpsons. That should help offset the losses.

To a power broker, the Murdoch operation is very successful. It’s likely the Republicans would not have captured the House of Representatives without their support. There are more than enough right-wingers out there to keep this monster alive.

So stop it with the schadenfreude. The Cotillion of the Right continues.

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Anarcho-Activist and www.ComicMix.com editor-in-Chief Mike Gold will resume performing his weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking bizarro music and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com starting this very Sunday. When that happens, his Weird Sounds show will be available on-demand. Yay!