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I think that part is pretty normal, lots of people make deals like that
The crazy part is how he used to call newspapers under false names to talk himself up
Hell, there's a reasonable amount of evidence suggesting that he was never a billionaire (until this year at least), he apparently got on the Forbes list by bugging them until they put him in
Reminds me of the ridiculous advice I've heard from my parents of just showing up to pester the boss at the job you want until they hire you. It may have worked before the days of LinkedIn and Indeed, but these days the people picking out application candidates almost always have nothing to do with the position they're hiring for.
the crazy part is that Murdoch and Co.'s grip on america is so strong that he has half the country dancing to his tune, through a combination of stupidity and greed (fox/WSJ/majority of "independent" radio stations etc.)
Well, that parts not crazy, it's just really depressing.
Propaganda works, and we really should have written a few more laws to protect independent media before everything calcified into place
UK had those laws, but Rupert Murdoch had lunch with Margaret Thatcher right before he purchased the Times of London, giving him a 40% market share in news media in the country. You wanna take a guess on whether those laws were enforced after their little meeting?
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Do you ever wonder if we're in hell?
we did have some media-ownership limits couple decades back...
Bush and Clinton got rid of those
hence why people say both parties are the same...neolibs and republicans have always had the same end-goal
Oh... Wow, I really don't hate Clinton enough, he really just cut all the straps holding the country together, huh?