Ok, I
can hear you all saying “What's going on now?” Firstly let me
make it clear that I am no apologist for the mainstream media, but I
am interested in the New World Order and the global elite, and
sometimes there are crossovers into the mainstream. So why do I
consider Rupert Murdoch, a man seen by many to be at the heart of the
global conspiracy to be misunderstood? The reason is simple. Whatever
his flaws and failing, Rupert Murdoch is a man who cannot be
controlled. In part this is a trait he shares in common with many
Australians. They are a proud, not to say, belligerent people, known
for straight talking and not suffering fools gladly. This is
evidenced by his refusal to court the attentions of people in power,
preferring to create for himself a position in which the powerful
seek him out. His intellect is unquestioned being a politics,
philosophy and economics graduate of Oxford University as well as
completing an MA, and his position on personal editorial control over
his various media outlets has always been to allow the editors he
employs the freedom to act as they see fit.
This
makes him tremendously dangerous to the global elite, and is the real
reason that his motives, practices and controls are constantly
questioned. The truth is fundamentally counter to the rumours and
insinuations. Having been introduced to journalism by his father Sir
Keith Murdoch, a highly respected war correspondent and media magnate
known for his insistence on scrupulous ethics in journalism, and his
further development of his own social conscience evidenced by his
support for social politics and public ownership of utilities,
Murdoch is far more committed to exposing corruption and malpractice
in the upper echelons of society. As a pragmatist and social realist
Murdoch understood early on that in order to expose and make public
the wrongdoings of others it would sometimes be necessary to adopt an
“at any cost” approach to journalism, and this has led many to
see him as unscrupulous and utterly unethical. This is far from the
case.
At
root Murdoch understands that in order to effect change in society,
and in order to hold politicians and leaders to account one needs, in
the first instance a platform from which to bring these stories to as
wide an audience as possible. This is his raison d'etre in creating a
network of highly populist, easily accessible media outlets that
successfully engage with a global audience. In the UK his Sun and
News of the World newspapers were significantly the best selling
newspaper for many years, the Sun having a readership of 4 million
regularly. His Fox news network in the United States is one of the
most highly watched, and in order to achieve this Murdoch has
actively researched and understood that what people want is not high
brow analysis and cutting insight, but something that is more
accessible to the mainstream. It should be noted that the Sun in the
Uk is written specifically for a reading age of 14 years because it
is understood that news should be accessible to all irrespective of
educational background.
Having
successfully created a vast and effective global platform, Murdoch
specifically works to both entertain and inform without bias and
without fear or favour. These should be the principles of all good
journalists. The issue comes in the fact that in order to gain access
to information that the elite would rather keep hidden, there is a
need to engage in less ethical acts. This has been seen in the furore
over the phone hacking scandal, but this is yet another smokescreen.
Another desperate attempt to limit the power of a man who defies the
control usually exerted on the owners of the supposedly free press.
Right or wrong, good or bad, Rupert Murdoch is one of the very few
successful men to do things completely his own way and to stand for
the unempowered and disenfranchised. Love him or hate him, you have
to respect a man who stands up to the global elite that would far
rather that we were all cattle, and are working actively to achieve
that.
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