We've been through this. I came to this country in 1977, one year before he bought The Sun. I have had thirty years' opportunity to observe at close quarters, not the New York Times', but the Murdoch press' effect on man. And the effect of a newspaper that sells four to five million copies daily is huge, both in itself and in its imitators. I am sorry, but I do feel you have spent too much time in close contact with a monster to realize just how monstrous he is.
The people I mean are Lawrence Auster, Debbie Schlussel, and Diana West. None of them are particularly my favourites; Auster has positions that are not easily distinguished from racism, Schlussel is a harridan more interested in discovering enemies to hate than in doing anything positive, and West is a laudatrix temporis acti. But none of them have bent their knee to Murdoch, and that is admirable. One of the most depressing rake's progresses it has been my misfortune to observe is the way the supposed scourge of media porn and exploitation, Brent Bozell III, has been falling increasingly silent about all the trash Fox broadcasts, when only a few years ago he was quite clear that it is the worst of a bad lot. Murdoch's wholesale purchase of American conservatism had produced many intellectual parabolas of the kind.
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Date: 2011-02-14 04:53 pm (UTC)The people I mean are Lawrence Auster, Debbie Schlussel, and Diana West. None of them are particularly my favourites; Auster has positions that are not easily distinguished from racism, Schlussel is a harridan more interested in discovering enemies to hate than in doing anything positive, and West is a laudatrix temporis acti. But none of them have bent their knee to Murdoch, and that is admirable. One of the most depressing rake's progresses it has been my misfortune to observe is the way the supposed scourge of media porn and exploitation, Brent Bozell III, has been falling increasingly silent about all the trash Fox broadcasts, when only a few years ago he was quite clear that it is the worst of a bad lot. Murdoch's wholesale purchase of American conservatism had produced many intellectual parabolas of the kind.