Big media

This post over at au currant takes us to a Guardian article which informs us that the Murdoch media machine may switch its allegiance from the Labour government to the Tory party if the Tories, under Howard, can prove themselves a viable alternative.

The media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, last night signalled that his newspapers may switch their allegiance to a reinvigorated Tory party at the next election, in comments likely to cause further alarm among Labour's already jittery high command.

I know that this is the way of the world and that it would be naive to think otherwise but the self importance of this media giant is sickening. It really yanks my chain that they have the power (and know it) to influence the outcome of public elections.

On the one side we have raw media power, on the other we have the political elite and in the middle we have the public, constantly lied to and manipulated in someone else’s dirty game.

Posted by JohnJo at November 15, 2003 04:08 PM | TrackBack