Fox For McCain

3:09 pm EST October 9th, 2008 | Media | 5 Comments

Rupert Murdoch & Co. are doing their damndest to win back this election for John McCain. But I don’t think it will work. This isn’t 2002 or 2004.

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5 Responses to “Fox For McCain”

  1. Parthenon says:
    October 9, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    I’m rather enjoying seeing this poor man’s William Randolph Hearst drift off into irrelevance.

    At least for the moment. Don’t sleep on him.

  2. mdpdb says:
    October 9, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    Actually, it’s a mistake to think that everything Fox stands for/supports is synonymous with what Murdoch wants/supports. As far as I understand it, he’s an Obama guy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen/rupert-murdoch-says-obama_b_104018.html

    It’s best to think of FOXNews as a product that generates an audience they can sell to advertisers more than anything. And liberals/progressives like us who watch to get pissed off are actually an intended component of that audience.

    /guy who used to work for the website.

  3. Duros Hussein62 says:
    October 9, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    It’s best to think of FOXNews as a product that generates an audience they can sell to advertisers more than anything.

    I’m thinking that’s probably true of all the media outlets.

    Remember kids, every time you log on to Myspace, Rupert Murdoch gets a little piece of your soul.

  4. daniel rotter says:
    October 9, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    The Fox “News” Channel is biased against Obama. In other news, water is wet and night follows day.

  5. Tyro says:
    October 9, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    I’d have pegged Murdoch as a guy who can see where the winds are blowing and wants to be on the winning side when everything goes down. Either he’s allowing Fox News to continue what it’s doing because he sees it it as serving a niche market with an audience who needs to be cultivated and their needs catered to. Teh Crazy is going to be watching something and they may as well watch Fox as opposed to Glenn Beck. If I had to venture a guess, I’d say he’s making nice with Obama but using Fox as “Bread and Circuses” for the Fox fanbase.