Murdoch Strikes Back At Times
Offering no cooperation on a piece about News Corp.'s operations in China, a spokesman instead blasts the 'Times' coverage as self-serving
We'll have more to say shortly on Joseph Kahn's pretty impressive and exhaustive account of Rupert Murdoch's activities in China.
But the biggest news in the piece has to be the war that's now going on between Mr. Murdoch and The Times.
When we broke the news here that The Times was undertaking a "multi-bureau" investigation of News Corp.'s business practices, one of the names we'd gotten was Joseph Kahn in Beijing. Turns out his piece has been broken out of the rest of the investigation, and appears in today's editions (and here.) The upshot: nefariousness!
But the metanews was in the only statement offered by News Corp. to the reporter:
News Corp. has consistently cooperated with The New York Times in its coverage of the company. However, the agenda for this unprecedented series is so blatantly designed to further the Times’s commercial self interests — by undermining a direct competitor poised to become an even more formidable competitor — that it would be reckless of us to participate in their malicious assault. Ironically, The Times, by using its news pages to advance its own corporate business agenda, is doing the precise thing they accuse us of doing without any evidence.
We'll be following this closely, and have more on Mr. Kahn's China investigation--by all measures more impressive than yesterday's piece--anon.
Rupert Murdoch is the purest definition of militant corporatism. He could have made a buck creating cerebrally-oriented institutions but instead aimed at the stupids for a bigger market share, and at the same time brought civilization a step closer to the uniformity that globalists of his kind desire. Murdoch just dumbs down his audience by offering cheap, sexual, and shallow tabloidization.
Now, he wants to dumb down America's financial district starting at it's top and make a mockery of one of our highest pinacles of civilization. There simply will be no chance of the man's not tainting the Wall Street Journal and bringing it too in line with his ideas of global uniformity.
Shame on the Banchrofts for even letting this vulgar little turd cross the threshold of their dignified world. It is a sign of a cheapened spirit by those who truly once held our nation's pride and spirit at a high post.
Of course, he will attack the N.Y. Times. That's what he does best. Even this artist's website has been paid visits by News Corp. Good! But unlike the Bancrofts, I cannot be purchased and remain unimpressed by Mr. Trite and his agents. My only hope is that he personally saw what I was obliged to draw for the sake of my principles.
It's not a bad thing, really, that civilization evolves, refines itself, and adjusts to change by becomming a better a place for humanity. But when powerful people work to devolve it, our ideals suffer bad consequences, and effect future generations.
That the White House's most prominant and sociopathic figure, Mr. Cheney, demands Fox News be specifically broadcast within it's walls, it's time to soberly consider the characters involved who would determine our future.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/ruperts_black_house.html
Boy, if I were in the full-time business of malicious assault (via NYPost and Fox Noise), I think I'd be a little more circumspect about hauling out that phrase to attack others, particular those like the New York Times who are unremitting recipients of just such assault.
Murdoch uses a time-tested and transparent method to respond: attack your attacker, accuse them of the same crime as counterpoint, and say nothing of substance.
I am a WSJ subscriber and plan to cancel it immediately once Murdoch takes over. Hello NY Times!
I love your articles.
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