The 4 M's

The 4 M's have become incredibly important in the world today. These M's stand for oppression, media bias, stirring up hatred and a severe curtailing on what we see, hear and read.  

Of course, they also stand for something else. Murdoch's Maniacal Media Machine.

Rupert Murdoch is undoubtedly one of the most powerful people on the face of this planet. He wields his influence globally through his media conglomerate News Corporation. There is barely anywhere in the world that you could go without seeing some form of media controlled by Murdoch.

Known throughout the world mainly for his ownership of FOX, he has amassed the type of power that an old style emperor might have. He has been at the forefront of several aggressive takeovers of smaller media outlets, and is currently involved in a battle of wits with the British Government over his proposed takeover of BSkyB.

But with such power, there should surely come some sort of responsibility for Murdoch to be a fair and just voice through his media machine. Alas, it would be easier to ask a penguin to paint my garden wall.

He has used the once noble vocation of journalism like a child uses a cheap toy. They play around with it, chew it up, spit it up and finally, when they no longer care for it, throw it away to let the dog have its way with it. Once Murdoch is taken from us , journalism will be left to fight for the scraps. His empire will crumble and fall and be divided amongst his children, friends, enemies and lovers (if anyone ever loved him.)

But before he goes he is determined to amass as much power as possible. Should he acquire BSkyB, he will essentially control the majority of the media in Britain. The BBC nad Channel 4 will be the only voices of reason left in television, with the Guardian left fighting off the hordes of Nurdoch owned papers.

It is ironic that the Murdoch University in Australia, completely unconnected to him, is known as one of the best colleges of journalism in the country. While journalism has changed as a profession, there can be no doubt that with him at the forefront, it has become lazy and sleazy.

When the time eventually comes for him to go to that Sky box in the sky, I, for one, will not be mourning him. I will be making a desperate grab to take over one of his papers like everyone else.

After all, he is the Devil.


( For legal purpose, Rupert Murdoch is not the actual Devil. Comments made here are the opinion of the author and the author alone, and in no way represent the views of blogspot.com)