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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Rupert Murdoch, Corruption and Fox News

Rupert Murdoch is one of the most powerful men in the world. The Australian media mogul has used his massive presence in the world media market to push a right-wing/populist agenda, often with a cheap dedication to sensationalism and slight regard for facts. He owns News Corp which itself owns several newspapers in the UK as well as the Wall Street Journal and Fox News here in the US. Murdoch also is the plurality stock holder of Sky TV and only backed off a recent attempt to take complete control of Sky just this past week.

There is a growing scandal brewing in the UK about newspapers (tabloids), owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp company, have been systematically hacking into peoples' private telephones to gather information. It has also come out that they've hacked the phones of the families of British war veterans killed in action, murder victims (obstructing an investigation in the process), the Royal Family, and members of the British Government including former Labor PM, Gordon Brown. There are also reports that News of the World hacked the phones of 9/11/2001 survivors. This is highly illegal and to prevent their being prosecuted about it, they bribed very high level officials in the British police forces to prevent them conducting investigations. This has begun to spread. The manager of the News of the World (the Murdoch owned tabloid where the scandal first emerged) has resigned and has since been arrested. The chief of the London Metropolitan Police has resigned. The Sunday Times has also recently been implicated in the spreading scandal. On this side of the Atlantic, Murdoch's man running Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal (two other divisions of Murdoch's empire) has also resigned. Make no mistake these resignations are both members of Murdoch's inner circle.

The FBI is now investigating whether US based divisions of Murdoch's media empire participated in any illegal practices overseas (which is a violation of US law). It would not surprise me at all to find out that Fox News has been engaging in the same kind of phone hacking and bribery of officials for information here in the US. For dedicated Fox News viewers, it won't matter. But anything that weakens Rubert Murdoch and his media empire is good for democracy and good for Democrats.

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