MURDOCH THE MANIPULATOR

Comparing Rupert Murdoch with the famous character in the film "Citizen Kane" is absolutely correct. The Australian media mogul, press and television networks first, uses its power to make and break in the high political circles of Europe, Asia and the United States. He has never denied it, although in fact he has also dared to admit it.
Two examples, in particular, are significant of its power and its connection with high politics. In the Brexit crisis, Murdoch has sided with those who demand that the United Kingdom break with the European Union. His newspaper The Sun is a scandalous supporter of this line, describes him as a traitor or a bit less Labor's Corbyn, and has been supporting Prime Minister Theresa May from the first day.
The reader of THE SUN gets breakfast every day with the apocalyptic comments that threaten the British if Brexit is not consumed quickly. The humiliations suffered by Mrs. May in the Commons, where until now she has not been able to endorse her plan of disengagement with the EU, has not been enough for the organ of the Australian tycoon to change his back rifle. And the same does, of course, its Sky News chain and the other means of communication of the Australian.
The second example that ratifies what we say is the blatant way in which the Fox News chain, owned by Murdoch, supports Donald Trump and exempts him from all blame, whether it is about Moscow's interference in the last US elections or the erratic decisions of Trump in domestic and foreign policy. It is not surprising that Trump himself claims that the only television network he believes and respects is Fox News. His editorialist Sean Hannity, not content to clean the boots of the tycoon who reigns in the White House, has agreed to appear in one of his election rallies.
When another of Fox News' heavyweights, journalist Megyn Kelly, dared to annoy Trump by questioning him about his misogynistic comments, which angered the president, the directors of the network demanded that Kelly present his excuses. By refusing to do so, the journalist had no choice but to resign from that chain.
The New York Times, in an excellent report, revealed this week a good part of the methods used by Murdoch to intervene in the political spheres. The tycoon has assured that he does not do or undo the presidents or prime ministers, but the truth is that when his media empire begins to support a politician, there are many letters for him to reach a high office.
Murdoch, in the opinion of his rare critics, represents a grave danger to democracy in the English-speaking countries. In his native Australia, his empire has managed to get politicians to reject the imposition of the carbon tax, something that no other country has opposed.
Thanks to Trump, the magnate has achieved what he never achieved in his years of media dominance: forging a close and committed relationship with a president of the United States.
But Murdoc, who is 88 years old and has suffered a fading this year when he was on one of his children's yachts, has never said which of his offspring will inherit the leadership of his empire. The struggle within your family promises to be very hard when it disappears.

manuel ostos (journalist)
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