Murdoch CEO Labels Bloggers “Political Extremists”; Should Be Jailed as in China and Burma
July 1st, 2009Via: Prison Planet:
A stinging attack by John Hartigan, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, labels bloggers and alternative media outlets as “political extremists”. Hartigan implies that bloggers should be jailed as they are in oppressive police states like China and Burma.
In a speech to the National Press Club, Hartigan savagely dismissed blogs as, “Something of such little intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance.”
“Bloggers don’t go to jail for their work. They simply aren’t held accountable like real reporters….It could be said the blogosphere is all eyeballs and no insights,” barked Hartigan.
“In the blogosphere, of course, the mainstream media is always found wanting. It really is time this myth was blown apart.”
“Blogs, and a large number of comment sites, specialise in political extremism and personal vilification. Radical sweeping statements without evidence are common.”
Hartigan doesn’t seem to grasp the fact that the mainstream media is always found wanting because they habitually lie about news events and spin stories to suit the demands of their corporate owners. This is the very reason why blogs and alternative media outlets have become so popular and have eaten into the mainstream media’s audience share, because people are sick of being treated like idiots, sick of being lied to, and are desperately in search of the truth.
Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
It is surprising to me they have let the internet grow to where it has. You can see the ongoing threat to media with the evaporating newspaper businesses. Now Rupert Marduck and his cronies are equalized side by side with sites like…Cryptogon. Thats got to have them just boiling, stealing their advertising eyeball impresions, promoting ideas outside institutionalized norms, and peacably assembling and exchanging ideas without the filter and spin of the thought controllers, all in a few mouse clicks. It gives me great joy to know that it gets their panties in a bunch. Maybe he should stick to peddling fux news in China if he admires their laws and culture so much.
I agree @FRLVX.
Seems like the empire Murdoch created is not satisfied with their Fox enterprise and their obvious inabilty to control the unwashed heathen who dare not to toe the line on the reality of what constitutes news.
What should have been contested as a monopoly with Murdoch’s acquisition of the Wall Street Journal went down without a whimper from anyone on the planet (except for perhaps the people who work there). The concentration of mass media into GE, Murdoch, etc. is really quite breathtaking.
In this last month, without a word of warning the Washington Post fired Dan Froomkin, one of the best political writers ever, and Hired Paul Wolfowitz- you know, the gringo who is the epitomy of the Neocon. With his Zionist vision of what should or should not be reality in this world, its bad new for MSM when they hire such a loser.
Really who cares about these bimbos and whether they think bloggers should be arrested. For Hartigan to issue such a public statement to me, means he is under threat for his job. You know, dude, you are not controlling the masses, you are not brainwashing people well enough, good enough smart enough, and gawd damn it, we don’t like you anymore. Sounds like Hartigan is on the coals. Another CEO bites the dust. SOB.
Yes, I got sick of being treated like an idiot by the MSM a long time ago. Wow, seems like another lifetime ago that I turned the TV off and followed my instincts.
Cryptogon is not the only place I go to for REAL NEWS on the planet, but darn surely I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t of one the best places to be if one wanted a reality check on what’s going on. But then I’m hopefully preaching to the choir of people who consistently support this website.
@ Eileen:
Preach on, Sistah !!!
ps: I simply delight in watching the folks with all the fixed infrastructure and sunk costs in spin get beaten by guys (and gals) with almost no overhead, at all. Another triumph for that all-holy free market they so publicly extoll. Ephemeralization shall not be denied: go Bucky, go
Cybele