Some Day Charities Will Be Understood To Be Part of a Web of Corruption

How Rupert Murdoch’s Money Helps Him Makes Friends - The Daily Beast: "Over the past decade, Murdoch and his company News Corp. have spent close to $50 million sowing the seeds of goodwill here in America through well-heeled lobbyists, seven-figure political donations, and large charitable contributions to key nonprofit groups." It's not that they are all criminals. It is because they embrace the values of the haves whuch is why we have excrescences like the Aspen Institute masquerading as mainline intellectual watering holes. Better a diner somewhere methinks. The NYT is the sign and seal of the sell-out of our culture to growth, upward mobility and other non-Veblenian objectives. Murdoch will be a convenient scapegoat while the game goes on.


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Murdoch comeuppance is in the works

News of the World Hack Scandal: Knives Out Against Rupert Murdoch - The Daily Beast: "David Cameron and the British press are denouncing the News of the World as new details of the tabloid’s illegal tactics come to light. William Underhill reports on the loss of Murdoch’s clout." But generally the rich find a way. However if the GOP continues to play Russian Roulette with no real knowledge of consequences, they may do the rich a deeper blow than Cameron can deal Murdoch. Maybe the poor will inherit the earth after all. We have less to lose.


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