splicetoday.com— Isnt the title intriguing enough?? The 77-year-old media mogul/troublemaker still believes in newspapers and is saving jobs, as seen in Michael Wolff's excellent new biography The Man Who Owns the News.
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First amendment my ass. What about when they cut the "mike" of some people so their opinion don't mess with the mainstream public sheeplesness, you wouldn't do that if you didn't have a hidden agenda.
Why else would you want to own a newspaper. Nothing like pumping out the jams you want to listen to and making everyone else subject to it too. I hate papers that are really just glorified mouthpieces.
It seems to me that attention spans grow shorter as the media dumbs it down. So attention span grows shorter even more. So the media respond.If someone-- like Rupert Murdoch were to break that vicious cycle, then lo, people would get smarter. One hopes.
His hidden agenda is to keep FOX News a pure right wing media. If too much liberal start playing around there, they will lose their market.IT is a business decision dude.
A better title for the book would have been "The man who OWNED the news" since that ownership has been effectively dissipated due to the equalizing impact of the Internet. All you need to do is look at the WSJ's horrible coverage of the tech industry (the must important business community they should be covering) to see that old media is dead.
Closed AccountDec 23, 2008
First amendment my ass. What about when they cut the "mike" of some people so their opinion don't mess with the mainstream public sheeplesness, you wouldn't do that if you didn't have a hidden agenda.
Closed AccountDec 23, 2008
That isn't the media that is flawed, it is the short-attention span of humanity. The media is simply meeting the demands of the public.
jackpotcityDec 23, 2008
Why else would you want to own a newspaper. Nothing like pumping out the jams you want to listen to and making everyone else subject to it too. I hate papers that are really just glorified mouthpieces.
drunkenoafDec 23, 2008
It seems to me that attention spans grow shorter as the media dumbs it down. So attention span grows shorter even more. So the media respond.If someone-- like Rupert Murdoch were to break that vicious cycle, then lo, people would get smarter. One hopes.
issaccheriyathuDec 23, 2008
His hidden agenda is to keep FOX News a pure right wing media. If too much liberal start playing around there, they will lose their market.IT is a business decision dude.
hcviolenceDec 23, 2008
I would no more applaud Mr. Murdoch then I would applaud Dr Frankenstein.
tsheltonDec 23, 2008
A better title for the book would have been "The man who OWNED the news" since that ownership has been effectively dissipated due to the equalizing impact of the Internet. All you need to do is look at the WSJ's horrible coverage of the tech industry (the must important business community they should be covering) to see that old media is dead.