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Rupert Murdoch, the Oxford educated, Australian born billionaire is not personally interested in seeing President Obama’s birth certificate, neither in all likelihood is Mr. Murdoch interested in knowing how many if any Botox treatments Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, has been subjected to. All truth being told, it is not very likely that Mr. Murdoch has any personal connections to organized “Tea Parties”.
What does interest Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, born Keith Rupert Murdoch on March 11, 1931, is making billions and billions of more dollars by expanding an ever growing empire that he has personally created. The genesis of Mr. Murdoch's empire began in 1953 when a young Rupert became the managing director of Australia’s News Limited, a news organization which would later evolve into being News Corporation. With a net worth of 4 billion dollars, Forbes 400 magazine currently lists Mr. Murdoch as being the 132nd richest person in the world.
According to the periodical “Business Week”, "His satellites deliver TV programs in five continents, all but dominating Britain, Italy, and wide swaths of Asia and the Middle East. He publishes 175 newspapers, including the New York Post and The Times of London. In the U.S., he owns the Twentieth Century Fox Studio, Fox Network, and 35 TV stations that reach more than 40% of the country...His cable channels include fast-growing Fox News, and 19 regional sports channels. In all, as many as one in five American homes at any given time will be tuned into a show that News Corporation either produced or delivered." If the world had intergalactic space colonies, it would be a sure bet that Rupert Murdoch’s satellites would be transmitting the news to them.
For millions of Americans who consider themselves conservative, Fox News has become their “light house” for news information and their main source and inspiration for political opinionated commentary. Roger Ailes, who was hired by Rupert Murdoch as the CEO of Fox News, officially launched the news channel on October 7, 1996. With a market share of approximately 17 million cable subscribers, the network slowly rose to prominence in the late 1990s and to date rates as the United States' number one cable news network.
Liberals and a large number of Progressives view Fox News as a propaganda machine for far right wing Conservatives, who in the viewpoint of the political left, are more interested in discrediting President Obama and his policies rather than trying to come up with viable solutions that would re-establish the United States as a world leader in trade, business, healthcare and education. To the political left Fox News has evolved into being the “I hate Obama, I hate the Democratic Party” news channel that is willing and quite comfortable with operating on the fringes of being a pseudo / skewed news reporting network.
For the political right, Fox News is their oasis in a desert that is full of left wing crazies that are determined to dismantle conservative principles which in the opinion of Conservatives, is the “glue” that holds the United States together as being the leader of the “Free World”. Simply, the Fox News cable network is the rallying point for many Conservative “soldiers” who see threats of Communism, Marxism, Darwinism and Socialism being discreetly interwoven into the lives of unsuspecting Americans. Their heroes include Fox commentators, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham. For the right wing audience, the aforementioned Fox cable news commentators are the knights that fight the war against liberal ideology.
What is truly amazing is that Rupert Murdoch, the grand architect and financial benefactor of the Fox News Empire is not necessarily a “true believer” in the ideology that the network is famous / infamous –depending on who is asked- for churning out to millions of viewers throughout the world 24 hours a day. Mr. Murdoch’s emphasis is making money and the enlargement of his media empire. Love or hate Fox News, the cable news network is rapidly becoming the crowned jewel in Mr. Murdoch’s treasure chest of media outlets.
As always Louisianans, the Examiner.Com is interested in knowing what you think. Is Rupert Murdock the “Dr. Frankenstein” of cable news? Is Fox News as fair and balanced as they claim to be? Inquiring minds want to know. Sound off.
Until next time Louisianans, Good Day, God Bless and Good Fishing.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/07/b122948.html
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