Posted by sigismund on August 1, 2011, at 13:25:38
In reply to Re: Murdoch » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on July 28, 2011, at 1:07:32
Politics has always been vicious. There used, nonetheless, to be an idea of the common good or the commonwealth.
Murdoch's strategy since 1972 has been to greatly (and of course adversely) affect the debate, but to contrive his support so that he ends up backing the winner from whom he can extract regulatory favours. So it was no surprise that he had his man in Cameron's office, though I did not expect to see his man with the Met.
Some institute did a calculation of the value of the regulatory favours done in every election cycle. I forget what it was, it was long ago anyway so the figures would be out of date, some hundreds of millions of dollars 20 yeas ago.
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