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From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Media Irresponsibility
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 14:33:04 EST
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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."