"The latest revelations in the UK about
phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are
just the tip of a very toxic iceberg that had the likes of Tony Blair
going cap in hand to Murdoch's corporate functions when he was still
British prime minister."
Journalism professor Karl Grossman adds his assessment of the story’s significance:
"What is unfolding – revelations of
bribery and massive phone-hacking – could go down as the greatest press
scandal in the English-speaking world. Overarching it is a media machine
built by Murdoch that is the most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt
of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world..."
What power has media mogul Murdoch had? And how has he misused it?
Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of
Veterans Today,
asserts that “Murdoch has now admitted to have controlled the political
systems in Britain and America for two decades. He has had the power to
choose national leaders, make policy, pass laws at will.”
Murdoch’s media has been endless propaganda for war, and various other
deadly policies. British writer Robin Beste divulges how numerous the
occasions of Murdoch’s warmongering influence have been:
Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers and TV
channels have supported all the US-UK wars over the past 30 years, from
Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands war in 1982, through George Bush
Senior and the first Gulf War in 1990-91, Bill Clinton’s war in
Yugoslavia in 1999 and his undeclared war on Iraq in 1998, George W.
Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with Tony Blair on his coat tails,
and up to the present...
Physician/political activist Mohamed Khodr suggests how such a travesty is possible in a democracy like America:
The best that can be said about Fox News
Channel and its bigoted, racist, fear mongering hosts and pundits is
that it is committing “intellectual terrorism” upon a nation devoid of
intellectual curiosity, a passion for truth and civic involvement, a
self absorbed populace distracted with consumerism, and devoid of all
outrage at the crimes committed by its government and corporations here
and abroad.
Gordon Duff adds a note on the deceptions that permeated the media and misled the public:
Now we find the news itself controlled
the governments and may well have written the scripts to the wars, the
rigged elections, the acts of terror and the misdirection that sent
America into a decade of cruel and useless bloodletting after terror
groups that never existed in the first place.
Western nations are currently outraged by the revelations of power and poison wielded by Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
It’s a bit late now to be angry because the lies, distortions and
propaganda reach back over many decades, not only by Murdoch but others
who control huge tracts of Western media, all skewed with a pro-Israeli
bias.
According to Jack Shaheen,
author of Reel Bad Arabs, the mindset of most Americans and Europeans
is Zionist imbedded, caused by a continual barrage of propaganda going
back to kiddie cartoons and permeating over 1,000 films.
Americans boast about having the best democracy in the world. How can
they make that claim when the system, on many different levels, is
dominated and controlled by the dictates of one small group whose
loyalty is to a foreign country?
Members of the US congress must yield to the dictates of
Israeli-firsters or their careers will be compromised. What kind of
democracy is this?
It’s not a democracy when a realm is controlled by an unelected power
broker with enforcers who run the government for another country.
Murdoch’s public apology for the crimes of his stooges is a ruse meant
to pacify an enraged public while Murdoch-the-mogul remains in power.
As political commentator Mike Whitney makes clear, “The firestorm in
the UK is not really about phone hacking at all. It's about corporate
fiefdoms and unelected oligarchs who control the flow of information and
use that power to their own advantage.”
It’s past time to break up the media gang and incarcerate the boss.
