The Evil of Rupert Murdoch
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 21st, 2011 4:31 am by HL
The Evil of Rupert Murdoch
Roger Simon, Politico
I first and last talked to Rupert Murdoch in late 1983 or early 1984, when he bought my newspaper in Chicago.I say it was “my” newspaper not because I owned it — far greedier people than even me owned it — but because it was my first extended job, and I had come to love it. I was writing four columns a week, my picture was on the side of newspaper trucks and on newspaper boxes. I was paid well. My wife also worked at the Sun-Times, and we were looking for our first house.
Ann Romney to Make Solo Debut on Campaign Trail
Erin McPike, RCP
Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, will hold her first solo campaign events of the election cycle today and Thursday in South Carolina, a sign that her husband's campaign is reassessing its approach to the first-in-the-South primary state.Ann Romney will lunch with Low Country Republican groups in Blufton, S.C., today, and then head to Charleston for a tea with a Republican women's organization. She'll stay in the Palmetto State for another day to greet voters breakfasting at a Myrtle Beach restaurant on Thursday morning.Romney himself has spent just one day in South Carolina so far…
Power and the Press
James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
On this side of the Atlantic, most of the commentary about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal has consisted in an outpouring of left-wing ressentiment against News Corp.'s American properties, which have nothing to do with the scandal, for not hewing to the liberal-left pieties of the so-called mainstream media.The best distillation of this attitude came from The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg last week: “In terms of its net impact on human welfare, News of the World has been the least evil of Rupert Murdoch's three-cornered Axis of Evil, the other two being the…
