Why the US media ignored Murdoch’s brazen bid to hijack the presidency
Did the Washington Post and others underplay the story through fear of the News Corp chairman, or simply tin-eared judgment?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/20/bernstein-murdoch-ailes-petreaus-presidency
Yawn! Another billionaire tried to buy the Presidency, can you pass the jam please?
I doubt I get any reader(s) here that are strong followers of Fox, but in the unlikely case that I do have one or two, you should take the time to see how beholden Fox is.
Even more amazing is that the WaPo relegated the article to the _style_ section. I get the Post and read the comics nearly every day and I have no recollection of seeing anything like that. I wonder if it even rated the front page of the style section. Even if I had noticed it, because of its location, I probably would still have ignored it; why expect politically explosive articles in the style section?
Of course, once all is said and done, there really isn’t anything ‘interesting’ here, it is the oligarchy using its power to manage the country, just in an increasingly overt manner instead of hidden in ‘smoke filled rooms’.
Nothing to see here, move along…
