Rupert Murdoch - "CNN is extremely Liberal"

[Ichingcarpenter]

Live-Blogging Murdoch

We're here in Georgetown University's Gaston Hall, listening to News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch.



"It's very hard to be neutral. People laugh at us because we call ourselves 'Fair and Balanced.' Fact is, CNN, who's always been extremely liberal, never had a Republican or conservative voice on it. The only difference is that we have equal voices on both sides but that seems to have upset a lot of liberals. ... The more voices the better.". (Ok, this just Crap)


Questioner: "As a citizen, I'm scared. The free press used to be the corps of democracy. Please convince me that the world media consolidation in one hand is not a threat to democracy."

Murdoch: Says "absolutely" that would be the case, but "we are a tiny fraction of the media landscape. There are millions of voices out there and we certainly don't have any of that sort of monopolistic view. Everything we've done in my opinion is to create competition. We've started up against other people everywhere. All of our activities are competing with other people and we think that's a public servcice. We want to give people choices. The more choice there is, the better it is. ... is ignoring the facts. It is being fragmented in a milion ways. And I think that's good. It doesn't suit my business but...

Good Grief!!!!

More at the link
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/liveblogging_murdoch_81425.asp
:wtf:

[backscatter712]

1. Considering Murdoch's further right than Attila the Hun,

to him, it probably is... :scared:

[Cleita]

20. You beat me to it!

I was going to say that to Murdoch anything left of Genghis Kahn was liberal.

[Cleita]

21. Delete

dupe

[lonestarnot]

2. How old is Ruppert? And what is American life expectancy these days?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. The more apropos question is...what is the Australian life expectancy

these days?

Most people don't realize that this Fascist Pig is an Aussie.

[OneDemsConscience]

3. Uh, CNN employs Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck

CNN is not liberal. During the build-up to the Iraq War, so-called "analysts" and "journalism" at CNN was almost as bad as Fox News.

[Johonny]

4. never had a Republican or conservative voice on it

Does the owner of Faux watch CNN ever. Novak the trader to America was on the thing for years and years and years...

[evlbstrd]

5. That's the trick.

Re-define "liberal" further and further to the right.

[texshelters]

6. Exactly-that is why I try not to use the word "liberal"

When John Kerry is called "liberal" then what is "conservative"?

Lieberman was also called liberal at one time.

Tex Shelters

[evlbstrd]

8. I just say I'm a socialist.

Small "s". Clears things right up.

[blm]

7. CNN has had more conservative voices than centrist voices for YEARS since AOL took over

control and started carrying water for their masters - House of Saud and House of Bush.

Murdoch is focking LYING about all of it - he knows he's a fascist and that CNN also serves the same fascist agenda he supports.

[MetaTrope]

9. Because we liberals were really waiting for the Apocalypse as CNN reported on it

We all have the Book of Revelations tattooed on our asses, don't you know?

[WinkyDink]

10. So THAT'S why we hear so many stories from Labor's POV. NOT.

[emmadoggy]

11. Whatever happened to the good old days when you could watch the news

and not be able to tell if someone was liberal or conservative?? When there was no obvious sway either way, just straight factual reporting and discussion?? Ahhh, nostalgia.

So now, viewers have "choice", as Murdoch puts it, to watch only that which fits into their own little narrow worldview - whether there is any accuracy in it or not. We watch news and programming that fits our "beliefs" and not what fits the actual facts. All of which has created this divided society with millions of people who have no real clue about what is really going on. Not to mention the fact that everything in the MSM is now based on "personality" and hot little scandals and superficial crap that just keeps obscuring the REAL NEWS which gets completely ignored or glossed over. Nice dumbed-down crap to keep the masses doped up like children on a sugar high.

It's disgusting, all of it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Actually you don't have that choice

why?

None of the major networks will cover news that matter to you and me... they are all covering it from the POV of center right, the question is how much to the right

[emmadoggy]

19. So true, so true.

Bites, don't it?

[Octafish]

12. Liberal = Truth-Filled

Don't know what that makes Conservatives or NAZIs like Rupert.

[TTUBatfan2008]

13. When you're a right winger...

a moderate view is considered liberal.

[Kitty Herder]

15. CNN is moderate? Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs are moderate?

Damn, we're in trouble.

[annabanana]

14. Toxic Fox has been dragging CNN ever rightward for a long long time.

CNN lost it's cred the day Turner sold it.

[Quantess]

16. CNN is Faux wannabe.

I don't see much difference between the 2.

[Cleita]

22. I wish we would get our anti-trust and tariff laws back

in place so foreigners like Murdoch can't buy our country. This man lives in Beijing, China, with his mail order Chinese wife. He has his fingers stuck in many questionable global pies. I don't think he pays enough taxes and licenses in this country to justify the money he makes from this country. Honestly, in other times that man would not have gotten away with being the propagandist and power broker that he is today. I think he should be sent back to Australia, but there are no longer laws to cover the ethical issues he has breached that in former times would have had him deported.

[DFW]

23. CNN is liberal like Ahmedi-Nejad is Jewish

Their "senior political analyst," Bill Schneider is as Republican as you can get,
and wears it on his sleeve. Candy Crowley, one of his team, is on the same wavelength.

Maybe CNN's Christiane Amanpour has her head on straight, but they keep her away from North
America (probably for that very reason--either that, or she wants no part of the place), and
Wolf Blitzer will kiss any ass he can find, as long as it has a reddish tinge.

Maybe to Hitler, Mussolini was a liberal, but no one would have been more surprised then
Mussolini to learn it.

[Echo In Light]

24. He's lying. Some basic info on the so called "liberal" media bias:

Myth: The U.S. has a liberal media.

Fact: The media are being increasingly monopolized by parent corporations with pro-corporate or conservative agendas.

Summary

The U.S. media are rapidly being monopolized by a dwindling number of parent corporations, all of whom have conservative economic agendas. The media are also critically dependent upon corporations for advertising. As a result, the news almost completely ignores corporate crime, as well as pro-labor and pro-consumer issues. Surveys of journalists show that the majority were personally liberal in the 1980s, but today they are centrists, with more conservatives than liberals on economic issues. However, no study has proven that they give their personal bias to the news. On the other hand, the political spectrum of pundits -- who do engage in noisy editorializing -- leans heavily to the right. The most extreme example of this is talk radio, where liberals are almost nonexistent. The Fairness Doctrine was designed to prevent one-sided bias in the media by requiring broadcasters to air opposing views. It once enjoyed the broad support of both liberals and conservatives. But now that the media have become increasingly owned and controlled by corporations, conservatives defiantly oppose the Fairness Doctrine. This is probably the best proof that the media's bias is conservative, not liberal.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-liberalmedia.htm

The Myth of Liberal Media:
http://www.webpan.com/dsinclair/myths.html

What Liberal Media? By Eric Alterman
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030224/alterman2

http://www.whatliberalmedia.com/

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News/Chomsky and Edward Herman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic

[Perry Logan]

25. Winger beliefs are hardwired. They will go to their graves believing the press is liberal.