Rupert Murdoch, Number Three Monster Under the Leftists’ Beds, just bought the Wall Street Journal. It doesn’t make a much of a much to me, except that it’s prompted John Edwards to come out from under the hair dryer and flash his mad historical skillz.
He added: “The basis of a strong democracy begins and ends with a strong, unbiased and fair media –- all qualities which are pretty hard to subscribe to Fox News and News Corp.
Oh, does it now?
I suppose that means that John Edwards does not consider the United States to be a strong democracy because it certainly did not begin with an “…unbiased and fair media…” by any means. Has John Edwards never heard of the famous muckrakers like Lincoln Steffens who were anything but “unbiased”? Does he not know who Horace Greeley was or the yellow journalism of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hurst? How about the “unbiased” and “fair” pseudonymous letters to his own newspaper written by Benjamin Franklin?
I suspect that he has only the faintest idea who any of these people are and that he honestly believes that the media is now and always has been “unbiased and fair”. If that’s what he really knows to be true, then he needs to spend his next four years going back to school and not sitting in the Oval Office. We don’t need that sort of mental lightweight in the White House.
I’d love for a reporter to ask him whether he considers America a strong democracy built as it has been on a decidedly unfair and biased media. Anyone up to taking on that challenge?
(via Greg Pollowitz)
