Commercialisation Of Politics

From Think Progress:

According to a database search, every single television reference to the CIA leak scandal as the “criminalization of politics” in the last 30 days has been on Fox. Even more stunning: on every occassion, the phrase was introduced into the segment by a Fox News anchor or correspondent, never by a guest.

Why exactly is Rupert Murdoch so afraid of the Fitzgerald enquiry? What are his links with the Bush neocons and the Israeli government?

How about this, from Candour magazine in 1984:

Rupert’s father Sir Keith Murdoch attained his prominent position in Australian society through a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, née Elisabeth Joy Greene. Through his wife’s connections, Keith Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked. There was enough money to buy himself a knighthood of the British realm, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town,” Candour wrote in 1984. “For some reason, Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother brought him up as a Jew.

Or this resignation explanation by former Times reporter Sam Kiley, who calls Murdoch "a close friend of Ariel Sharon":

"Murdoch's executives were so scared of irritating him that, when I pulled off a little scoop by tracking, interviewing and photographing the unit in the Israeli army which killed Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old boy whose death was captured on film and became the iconic image of the conflict, I was asked to file the piece 'without mentioning the dead kid'. After that conversation, I was left wordless, so I quit."

Or this quote from Murdoch himself:

“I have always believed in the future of Israel and the goals of the international Jewish community,” Murdoch said at a spring fund-raiser for the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on April 29, 2001.

From the beginning, News Corp., his global media company, “has been supportive of the Jewish national cause,” Murdoch said.

Perhaps it's time some brave reporter asked Murdoch just what those "goals" are...?

PS: Again, I am not criticizing Murdoch for being Jewish, but for actively disseminating propaganda supporting the pro-Israeli neocon agenda while stifling dissent on the same subject. Quotes above sourced here: if any of them are not factual, please let me know.