"Would that be the Murdoch whose products actually sell, unlike our products?"
-- Anonymous (who else?!), who posted that just seconds ago, at 3:04 ET, in response to criticism of press baron Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal. That comment is the 100,000th posted here since I first began publishing Gannett Blog on Sept. 11, 2007.
I don't agree that selling should be any focus. Sham snake oil, the sell being the point at the direct expense of actual participation in a democracy.
ReplyDeleteNot ever, empowering information, some viable contest selling itself, ever.
Murdoch sells. His properties profit. They profit him and his ilk and rob the masses of self-respect, even adult curiosity.
But the media model today is not interested in conveying facts but rather a particular corporation's agenda.
Corporations are by definition not reliant upon a single human value; they are justified by profit, all else utterly irrelevant.
Literally. All else.
Damn! I was 99,998!!! There goes my commemorative Gannett Blog t-shirt.
ReplyDeleteAs for the above post . . . sorry you're so cynical about business, and success. What media DO you admire? The Times? NPR? HuffPo? Hate to tell you, they ALL pull in a ton of money.
Capitalism built this country, and helped create this blog and the device you view it on. I think it fitting that Alexander hamilton founded the Post, and Murdoch maintains it at a severe cost to himself and his company. Wonder if the sainted Citizen Buffett will stick by his new toy in Omaha if it loses ten or twenty or fifty million a year.