worth a read:
Why Murdock based his media empire on right-wing, not left wing, populism.
Edited on Tue Jul-19-11 08:11 AM by pampango
Money, of course! But more specifically to generate great wealth (populism attracts lots of readers) while simultaneously protecting the new wealth by using right wing blame-shifting tactics. Make people believe that society's problems aren't related to rich people and corporations not paying their share of taxes, but are caused by a variety of "others", e.g "union members, gays, foreigners, uppity women, and racial minorities."
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/07/18/jeet-hee... /
now tell me doesn't this sound like the rhetoric the new right is speiling?
man have they been suckered!