The Left's Big Opportunity

People's Socialist Workers of the World Unite -

The Progressives (i.e., communists) of the world are outraged.  This blatant crime against humanity must be avenged at the very top (does anyone remember what the crime was?).  Left wingers in the UK Parliament have gone into full scale attack mode as they see an opportunity to rid the world of all capitalist and conservative news sources by declaring war on News Corp.  The socialist backbenchers have determined that Rupert Murdoch is unfit to lead a major international company, and naturally the liberal press around the globe has gone ballistic in reporting the news.

Did one British tabloid (News of the World), one small component of a company that owns over 300 separate entities throughout the world (see below), do something wrong?  Certainly.  Was Rupert Murdoch intimately involved in the wrongdoing?  Almost certainly not.  Does the crime deserve the attention it is getting?  Of course not, but that doesn't matter.  The vast majority of the global media is liberal, and they will go for the throat when they see a chance to kill off the dominant opposing voice.  And the world's Marxist politicians will most assuredly go all out to help them do it.

It makes one wonder which category of media outlet is more legitimate, the traditionally creative sensationalist tabloids found at the grocery store checkout counters or the formerly respectable but newly creative sensationalist rag sheets of the mainstream press?  When it comes to newspapers it might be most informative to stick to the sports pages.

A sample of News Corporations global holdings -

Publishing -
     More than 150 newspapers, including:
     The Wall Street Journal
     The New York Post
     Barron's
     The London Times
     The Sun
     The Australian
     Dozens of books and magazines, including:
     HarperCollins Books
     Zondervan Christian Books

Cable Programming -
     Fox News Channel
     Fox Sports Network
     Fox Movie Channel
     FX
     Fox College Sports
     Big 10 Network
     National Geographic Channel

Filmed Entertainment -
     20th Century Fox
     20th Century Fox TV
     Fox Filmed Entertainment
    
Television -
     Fox Broadcasting Company
    
Satellite TV -
     BSkyB

And countless more business entities, including probably just for the hell of it, 15% of the Colorado Rockies baseball team.  Rupert Murdoch would have to be one hell of a multi-tasker to know what is going on in all of these organizations.