POLITICAL STANCES AND REFLECTION IN MEDIA
- Last year there was his cheerleading for Mitt Romney – "looking better and better while Obama seems devoid of anything new", Murdoch tweeted 11 days before Obama comfortably won re-election.
- moved decisively rightwards from the mid 70s
- "Thatcher and Murdoch had a deep mutual regard, more sincere on her part than his." When she deviated from what he saw as the true path of modern conservatism, he could quickly turn critical or disloyal
- Murdoch transmits his political desires, both within his conglomerate, News Corporation, and far beyond.
- 1980, McKnight writes, Murdoch backed Reagan's presidential bid
- the Sun's notorious assault on Neil Kinnock and Labour in 1992.
- In the 1988 presidential election, he favoured t Robertson as the Republican candidate.
- In the 1992 contest, he abandoned the Republicans for the Ross Perot
- launched Fox News, with constant support for the conservatives
Murdoch states that
"I give instructions to my editors all around the world," as Murdoch put it in 1982.
This shows the sheer influence he can have and how he can share his political believes at the time. It highlights how newspapers may not have been as impartial as they would have seemed. This is discussed throughout the article as to whether he uses politics to benefit his papers or whether he uses the papers to benefit his political beliefs. Nevertheless less this highlights how much influence conglomerate owners such as Murdoch has and also how easy it is for him to exploit it.
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