From the sort of way back machine: the evil nexus of Beckistan, Murdochia, and Kochland

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We knew this. Why are we shocked now?

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/09/glenn_beck_rupert_murdoch_and.html


Glenn Beck, Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers - are these the guys who have the answers?

Joyce Pines | Kalamazoo Gazette By Joyce Pines | Kalamazoo Gazette
on September 07, 2010 at 8:04 AM, updated March 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM

It's been an interesting past couple of weeks for the media. Keyboards sizzled as everyone tried to figure out just exactly what Glenn Beck was doing at the Lincoln Memorial. More interesting, but receiving less attention, was information revealing the power behind the tea party and trouble in Rupert Murdoch's empire.

For those of you who don't spend all day reading about this stuff, the following is a synopsis.

Let's start with the latest news. In its most recent Sunday magazine, the New York Times reports that Murdoch's British tabloid, News of the World, has a nasty habit of condoning its reporters hacking into the cell phones of the rich and famous in Great Britain for juicy news.

According to the Times story, the gossip that is a staple of British tabloids has the ability to end careers, thus giving British papers a great deal of power. A culture grew up that encouraged papers to hire "private investigators and others who helped obtain confidential information, whether by legal or illegal means. The illicit methods became known as 'the dark arts',” according to the Times story...

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