Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cadovax!bob From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Media Irresponsibility Message-ID: <417@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 14:33:04 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.417 Posted: Tue Feb 26 14:33:04 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:21:12 EST Organization: Contel Cado, Torrance, CA Lines: 26 From me (Bob Kaplan) >> I hope this doesn't sound too much like another conspiracy theory, but I get >> really worried about people like Rupert Murdoch or companies like Warner >> Bros. Communications, who try to buy up newspapers and other media, and then >> publish only the news that they see fit, and only in a way that they see fit. From Scott Plunkett ..{ihnp4,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett > Quite so. We note the concern of liberals suddenly alarmed at prominent > conservatives buying up newspapers. We also note they are not so alarmed > at the entrenched liberalism throughout medialand that has been largely > responsible for the cynical use of the media which the above writer seems > so disgusted about. Maybe a little diversity and some healthy > competition of *ideas* will help the situation. From me again: This is not a "conservative vs. liberal" issue. Granted, a lot of the media has a liberal bias and a lot of the media has a conservative bias. Who cares? As long as we have a free interchange of ideas (regardless of bias), I'll be happy. What bothers me about Rupert Murdoch is not that he's a "conservative," but that he seems intent upon establishing as much control over the media as he can. I'd be just as worried if he were a "liberal." -- Bob Kaplan "Pain and sorrow are the result of attachment and desire."