Paul Krugman tells it like it is

[Gutenberg]

Check out the grafs toward the end where Krugman describes Rupert Murdoch's cozy relationship with the Conservatives presently in power in Great Britain:

"Thus in Britain, a reporter at one of Mr. Murdoch’s papers, News of the World, was caught hacking into the voice mail of prominent citizens, including members of the royal family. But Scotland Yard showed little interest in getting to the bottom of the story. Now the editor who ran the paper when the hacking was taking place is chief of communications for the Conservative government — and that government is talking about slashing the budget of the BBC, which competes with the News Corporation."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/opinio....html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Remember that press impartiality is a tradition in the US, not law. Murdoch is gaining control of the Republican Party through Fox News. No doubt about it.

[mattkime]

santorum running for president! Bring it! Bring it!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=santorum

[$tevie]

Very serious stuff. And to try to counter this by claiming that the rest of the press has a liberal bias is to have blinkers on.

As the Republican political analyst David Frum put it, “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox” — literally, in the case of all those non-Mitt-Romney presidential hopefuls. It was days later, by the way, that Mr. Frum was fired by the American Enterprise Institute. Conservatives criticize Fox at their peril.

So think of those paychecks to Sarah Palin and others as smart investments. After all, if you’re a media mogul, it’s always good to have friends in high places. And the most reliable friends are the ones who know they owe it all to you.