Reply #27: right-wing billionaire uses his business and media empire to pursue a part

[bluedawg12]

check out the info. on Murderdick.

This is a good over view about a memeber of the ruling right wing media oligo-porkery.
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How one right-wing billionaire uses his business and media empire to pursue a partisan agenda at the expense of democracy


http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=122948

"MURDOCH THE NEOCONSERVATIVE: Murdoch owns the Weekly Standard, the neoconservative journal that employed key figures who pushed for war in Iraq. As the American Journalism Review noted, the circulation of Murdoch's Weekly Standard "hovers at only around 65,000. But its voice is much louder than those numbers suggest." Editor Bill Kristol "is particularly adept at steering Washington policy debates by inserting himself and his views into the discussion." In the early weeks of the War on Terror, Kristol "shepherded a letter to President Bush, signed by 40 D.C. opinion-makers, urging a wider military engagement." "