Murdoch is not running Fox just to make a buck. Television, radio, newspapers and movies are not entrepreneurial endeavors started up to make money. They require large amounts of capital to get started. They are started by people who already have a lot of money, or access to it.
Generally, the purpose of media operations is not to make money, but to INFLUENCE.
William Randolph Hearst was not an entrepreneur who got rich in the newspaper industry. He was the multimillionaire heir to a vast fortune who spent years burning through his mother's capital before he finally turned a profit -- and rose to a position of immense influence. He angered his competitors for upsetting their apple cart, and to this day he is smeared by people who run media for international banking interests, which he was independent of because his father discovered one of the largest silver lodes in the world.
Some of the biggest money making movies of all time are about Jesus Christ. But look at the heat Mel Gibson took for making a Passion of the Christ -- a massive money maker. If the movie-makers were all about money, we'd have a Jesus Christ blockbuster every summer, and a whole lot more big-budget movies with Christian themes. And more patriotic movies, too. Instead, we get money loser after money loser with decidedly anti-Christian and anti-American themes that alienate much of the public.
Holocaust movie after Holocaust movie. Nazis as villians. Are the Nazis and the Holocaust central to American history and American identity? How did these themes come to dominate our media?
Instead of the next John Wayne, we get Adam Sandler every summer. Oliver Stone gets access to hundreds of millions for his films. The strong American hero has been replaced by British or Australian males, or clowns. (Can't have another Ronald Reagan using his popularity brought by the Hollywood spotlight to rise to political power.)
Murdoch owes his rise to Jewish bankers aligned with the Likud party, who broke from the left. In America, Murdoch supports the neocons who infilitrated the Republican Party. Most of the rest of the media is aligned with leftists, or neo-liberals, who have monopolized the Democratic Party.
So our media choice is between Democrats aligned with Zionists (CNN and MSNBC), or kill-them-all Republicans aligned with Zionists (FOX).
Murdoch is of the kill-them-all variety.
Where Beck is going I don't know. But as long as he works for Murdoch, you can bet he will not bite the hand that feeds. Hannity has actually said this on the air -- that he doesn't understand populist anger at the rich because he is so grateful to rich people because he is well-compensated by a rich man.
Maybe Murdoch and his backers sense that Ron Paul has tapped into something, just as the America First Committee did in the 1930s. Murdoch did his best to blackball and discredit Ron Paul during the election just as Ron Paul was gaining traction. Beck was a part of this smear.
Maybe the strategy now is to bring us under the tent and expend our energy on the left, instead of turning it on people like Murdoch, who no doubt will cheerlead the next Middle East war when it comes.
It's Democrat versus Republican. We expend our energies fighting each other, instead of pursuing our mutual interests, which are not in the Middle East, and are counter to those of the international elite. Murdoch is one of the international elite.
