You may have heard that Ruthless Rupert Murdoch is trying to buy Dow Jones. Dow Jones owns the Wall Street Journal, so if Rupert succeeds in this take over he will own all the newspapers in the world!
Okay, so I exaggerate a bit, but according to Professor Ben Bagdikian, we are all doomed. This guy has been writing about the conservative consolidation of the media for the thirty years it has been going on. There used to be a zillion independent newspapers and TV stations and now there is only Rupert. And Rupert backed Bush. No wonder we have a moron for President. Where were the democrats back in '77 when we needed them? Out getting their hair styled.
On the other hand, according to http://www.cluetrain.com/, the old style media is obsolete and going away fast. The Internet is taking over, and pretty soon everyone will know everything and all the criminals will be locked up and all will be roses and posies and joy forever and ever amen. Right.
All it takes for evil to succeed is for men of good will to do nothing.
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