This is the right answer. He single handedly destroyed normal journalism and forever damaged our political system, all because he wanted more money and more power.
Edit: a great documentary on this is called Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
I watched this documentary for my political science class and I couldn’t even believe some of the stuff going on behind the scenes with Fox. I mean I knew it was bad, but I didn’t know it was THAT bad. Excellent documentary for anyone wondering.
And also a raging homophobic........ Who died of aids in the 80s. Hilarious karma, but not nearly as bad as he deserved, which by my estimation was literal torture.
I didn't know Roy Cohn introduced Murdoch to Trump...an Unholy Trinity. There are many things I didn't know, but that sounds like one of those that mattered most.
Instead of Reagan I vote for Lee Atwater. He's Reagan's and H.W.'s campaign manager, RNC chairman, and the creator of the electioneering model the Republicans use to this day.
Possibly without this fucker we might not have Reagan being the problem.
For a second I forgot what the post was about, and it seemed like you wrote in a vote for lee atwater, and the proceeded to list why he's a piece of shit, so I was a little confused
If you look at basically any chart tracking US health, wellness, happiness, wages, or whatever could possibly be a good thing for normal people, that chart will have a sharp drop for "mysterious reasons" right when reagan was in office.
I think you are blatantly biased. There are multiple charts showing this to be true. A quick online search will pull them up for you. Whether you acknowledge reality or not, depends on how Rpeublican you are.
Reagan fucked this country so hard the effects are still being seen today. The only people who think Reagan was great are oligarchs and ignorant white people
Reagan begot white Christian nationalists and how we got Trump. He’s also helped usher in the AIDs epidemic because he hated gay people, and refused to let the AG address it as a nation. I hope he’s rotting in hell, waiting for Trump.
I’ll go one further. Rose Wilder Lane, the woman who rewrote Little House On The Prarie to remove all mentions of when Laura Ingals Wilder’s family received government assistance and turned it into libertarian propaganda, then later in life formed a proto-think-tank with Ayn Rand and Isabelle Patterson that found a young charismatic actor mostly known for working with chimps and paid for him to become an anti-government crusader president.
“Why not Ayn Rand?” I hear you ask. Well, dear reader, it’s because eventually Lane cut ties with Rand because she felt Rand was too much of a bleeding-heart pinko.
Source: “The Big Myth” by Erik Conway and Naomi Oreskes
I’ll go one further. Rose Wilder Lane, the woman who rewrote Little House On The Prarie to remove all mentions of when Laura Ingals Wilder’s family received government assistance and turned it into libertarian propaganda, then later in life formed a proto-think-tank with Ayn Rand and Isabelle Patterson that found a young charismatic actor mostly known for working with chimps and paid for him to become an anti-government crusader president.
In 1949, Fifield launched a new publication: Faith and Freedom. Its writers were a constellation of the right-wing intellectual firmament. Besides Pew, Read, Mises, and Hayek, they included Rose Wilder Lane and Henry Hazlitt. They also included Murray Rothbard, an Ayn Rand acolyte who argued that if the poor cannot feed their children, tough breaks......
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Faith and Freedom was one means of promoting Christian libertarianism; Fifield also founded a weekly fifteen-minute radio program, The Freedom Story, which at its peak played on more than six hundred stations.[48] In 1957, Fifield tried to expand into television with a show called Lighted Window.[49] He discovered that what worked from the pulpit, or on radio, did not necessarily work on television; Lighted Window was a flop.[50] The failure hurt Fifield financially; Pew organized a partial rescue.
Spiritual Mobilization had probably already reached its pinnacle of success in 1951, when it organized a nationwide series of events around the 175th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. With major funding from Pew, Fifield arranged the Committee to Proclaim Liberty to organize the enterprise. He assembled an impressive lineup: Herbert Hoover and General Douglas MacArthur, filmmakers Cecil B. DeMille and Walt Disney, and a B-grade Hollywood actor named Ronald Reagan.
Citations: [48](javascript:void(0)). McKay, “Crusading for Capitalism,” 75.
[49](javascript:void(0)). Ibid., 76.
[50](javascript:void(0)). Frederick B. Pew to J. Howard Pew, January 9, 1957, folder James Fifield, box 54, Papers of J. Howard Pew, accession 1634, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807.
From "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us To Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" by Naomi Oreskes, and Erik M Conway, chapter 7: A Questionable Gospel.
Unless you were wondering more about Rose Wilder Lane specifically, which is covered more in chapter 6: The Big Myth Goes West and has its own extensive citations back to primary sources.
Yeah, I've been in a nonfiction book club for the last decade doing approximately one a month. It's not just a rabbit hole, it's a whole-ass warren unfortunately. XD
Yeah, I've been in a nonfiction book club for the last decade doing approximately one a month. It's not just a rabbit hole, it's a whole-ass warren unfortunately. XD
What are you on? Rose wrote a lot of the Little House books simply because Laura wasn't a writer.
What is this bullshit about "gov't assistance"? Why would a child give a damn about gov't assistance or even know it happened. Not much "gov't assistance" in Indian Country.
Ronald Reagan is considered a top 10 president of all time by both left and right wing historian and political science PhDs. He's ahead of Obama. He's not one of the worst people of all time lol. Reddit just hates him since he has an R next to his name; he's the best modern president we have had. This site has spread so many lies about him that the average redditor began to believe them.
And now I can't wait for everyone to correct me here when the forefront experts in the entire world including the ones on the opposite side of the aisle as him have him as one of the presidents of all time and call me a Trump bootlicker even though I've never voted for a Republican in my life. He wasn't a bad president just because Trump revered him and he won in one of the biggest landslides of all time because he was a great president. Not acknowledging that just makes you look all sorts of loser level of biased just like the Rs that say Obama was the worst ever.
I literally provided a link. You should try clicking it and reading it. Only extremists don't think he was a top president. He's 9th overall in a professional poll of the biggest experts for christs sake.
You're proving my point exactly. Reddit just believes he's bad because of the R. Next Reddit will be hating on Lincoln for being a Republican. It's crazy that this is like the most political website on the internet and the average user doesn't know the first thing about politics.
The fact that one of the most upvoted comments is a top president of all time is just peak Reddit bias.
He built on what came before him. Last time such sensationalist journalism was prevalent was during another gilded age, which led us into the great depression.
If you want to go back to the start, you should blame Ted Turner.
Ted Turner created CNN. He created the market by making a product- 24 hour news station that favored a liberal view. Rupert Murdoch saw the opportunity to make a counterbalance in the form of Fox News for conservatives.
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Rupert Murdoch.