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Politics | 04/24/2008 12:00 am

wOw's Views on the News: Rupert Murdoch Bids $580M for Newsday

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
© AP

Rupert Murdoch bid $580 million for Newsday in hopes of adding it to his collection of New York-based newspapers. He already owns two of the nation’s top ten highest-circulation newspapers — The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. Read about it here in The New York Times and here in Newsday. Some say Murdoch is an old-fashioned press baron, destroying America’s business paper of record; others say he is simply shoring up an ailing industry just in time. What do you think?

 

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No GOP
Yes McGin-Klein…try a different ‘question’….
By No GOP on 04/25/2008 2:26 pm
No GOP
McGin-Oooh that sounds like name calling to me.. Aren’t you missing the Dr. Laura show?
By No GOP on 04/24/2008 6:40 pm
Maurine H
Sorry, Doc, but I’m finding it hard to believe you’re a woman. No woman I know addresses another woman as “Madam” and “Whoppi” is spelled “Whoopi”. So much for the Ivy League.
By Maurine H on 04/24/2008 9:15 pm
eleanor roche
All you can come up with is a typo insult? I’m disappointed.
By eleanor roche on 04/24/2008 9:28 pm
No GOP
Klein-McGin….why disappointed with a typo insult….you don’t mind resorting to them…you only like tactics if you use them not when they are turned against you.
By No GOP on 04/26/2008 4:40 pm
No GOP
fun messing with your heads” oops, key phrase. Mark Klein would NEVER miss this thread and everything you say is precisely his Freeper talking points. I do like the “Grassy Knoll Marxist” imaginative conjunction. Work that.. You might get it into the Freeper lingua franca….make it part of the pop lexicon…like “Don’t taz me, Bro.” cool… Easy for the Swift-boaters to pronounce….fits on a bumper sticker. I say you have a winner there, Mark. And since you’re trying to monetize your blog and spent $20K on your run for the White House….buttons T-Shirts etc. Think about it. because you know, cut and runners and surrender monkeys is so done. Now “Grassy Knoll Marxist”——that has cache. Hell, put me down for a bumper sticker.
By No GOP on 04/26/2008 11:33 pm
Mugsy Peabody
Sigh. Nice try. Now can we get back to whatever happened to the public airwaves, Rupert Murdoch, etc.?
By Mugsy Peabody on 04/24/2008 4:35 pm
eleanor roche
As my son would say, OMG!
By eleanor roche on 04/24/2008 4:49 pm
iris odonata
Miss Mugs: Ah, a cuppa nice chamomile after a chili laced debate. Joan Juliet Beck said it on the China question coupla days ago. “1999 Rupert Murdoch marries Wendy Deng.” The SF Chronicle today had an editorial re: Congress starting to take a look into “social media” and watchdogging it. This in response to how Mr. O’s “bitter” comments were leaked from the fundraiser. As our “free” press is gobbled up cuz we sold our souls to the devil, reminds me of the bankrupt aristocracy selling titles to the robber barons of America just a century ago, keeping the family estates and illusions of class seperation. Vampirically driven greed whether it’s for power, money, sex, oil, ego security, energy or blood is written in the annals of human commerce. The Net scares them. “We” the people are talking amongst ourselves, human to human, irregardless of geographical address. I wonder if Mr. Murdoch’s got a sled named Rosebud. I can see where a thousand years from now, like us, his bones’ll be dust and his name in a wikipedia type reference place for someone to use in support of their position or opinion. With the explosion in desktop publishing, he can’t own all of us.
By iris odonata on 04/24/2008 5:16 pm
No GOP
Iris—Great piece. Some here haven’t figured out that we all don’t want to be, nor are we all easily duped Sheeple. “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.” Guess there are a lot of people who read “Atlas Shrugged” in their youth but forgot to read George Orwell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
By No GOP on 04/24/2008 6:50 pm
Frannie Em
Mugsy - I know I know - but you know how it goes
By Frannie Em on 04/24/2008 10:02 pm
charley
You only have to look at the abuse of POWER as exhibited by Wendy McCaw at the Santa Barbara News Press in order to understand what can happen when BIG MONEY controls an avenue for the news. Impartiality, fairness, and lack of censorship are in jeopardy. So yes, Candice is correct, we should be bothered…what is his intention??
By charley on 04/24/2008 4:47 pm
Mugsy Peabody
As for having “left” voices on the media, as Alice Walker once said, she could say anything she wanted, as long as she kept making money for them.
By Mugsy Peabody on 04/24/2008 4:56 pm
No GOP
Mugsy, Yes, but has she hugged her inner Marxist today.
By No GOP on 04/24/2008 6:53 pm
The Ole Crone The Ole Crone
To blame it all on Bush just isn’t fair, nor is it correct, on most things in fact. Kissinger first, then Reagan set up how we do trade and form ‘corporations’ with gettin’ rid of all Ralph Nader’s policies & regulations set in the 60’s and 70’s —and this administration has run the ball through all the intended holes. And no democrats in the Congress or President has done anything to get ‘em back in. Jimmy Carter was goin’ to and he got shut down, didn’t he? The beginning of the multinat tricks. Yes monopolies are illegal, and isn’t it interesting in came the conglomerates and they’re just all nice and legal and make the monopolies look like cave men. There is capitalism and as everything else a balance line from the best to the worst. The government and the media and the politicos tell us the best in most all things and we believe. Then they and the sleight of hand lawyers go the worst for us and the best for them, Unprincipaled capitalism is a very bad thing as anything unprinciplaed. All of our ‘free’ media is in question now and being debated behind closed doors and on the floor and committees. Within 5 years possibly there will be no more free media and certainly no unbiased information coming to us.\ We are a troublesome bunch, we U.S.A.ans, and we’re bein’ takin’ out. Vote Party folks! Believe in the two machines controlled by the same money. Soon we’ll need to find those ole duplicatin’ machines and roll off any honest press and deliver to cyberdust station to cyberdust station by trained dogs, secretly. U.S.A.ans are being outsourced. We got too big for our britches. From the bottom up to the lower upper class. Easy, folk never look down. The fear of fallin’ thing. So by the time they look down is because they are losin’ their footin’ and wonder what’s happenin’, and look down and see, —‘oh my gawd the foundation is gone!’ The bottom up’s have been tellin’ us, but heyyyy who are they anyway, really? What a coup in psychology, sociology, divide and conquer, and promise and delay theories. But the multinats can afford the best can’t they? And just about everyone can be bought,—one way or another it seems. It seems the U.S.A.an get up and go has sure been bought up and now gone. Aside from our mouths not much is workin’ too well. Hear Yea Hear Yea: The planet and the people go from riches to rags in less than 50 years! Weather Forcast: Don’t look down, sink holes! Yup, vote the party. Yup vote the most ‘electible’ rather than the most capable, prepared, and honest, and proven. Look how well this theory worked in ‘04.
By The Ole Crone The Ole Crone on 04/24/2008 7:08 pm