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No one is more responsible for this mess than this guy.
Rupert Murdoch.
The largest media mogul in the English speaking world. He owns Fox News. He owns The UK Sun. He owns the New York Post. He owns The Wall Street Journal. He owns 90% of the Australian press.
He urged the British people to support Brexit:
(She never said of this)
Rupert Murdoch has used his immense influence to spread climate change denial. Fox News has denied climate change for decades. It's pure disinformation.
https://www.citizen.org/news/climate-change-denial-dominates-86-of-fox-news-climate-segments/
According to a recent study, Republicans trust Fox News than any other news source:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/17/6-facts-about-fox-news/
Republicans make up half the United States. They trust Fox News more than any other media organization. Let that sink in.
The Wall Street Journal is also a major problem.
I mean look at this shit:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366
https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-science-is-not-settled-1411143565
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119258265537661384
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-climate-change-religion-1429832149
https://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-climate-change-and-war-1461021491
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303480304579578462813553136
The Guardian, The New York Times or The Financial Times would never publish such garbage. But the Wall Street Journal has been publishing trash like this for decades.
Rupert Murdoch is famous in Australia because he believes climate change is a wonderful thing. All his medias are instructed to support climate-denial:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akewxe/rupert-murdochs-sky-news-australia-is-a-cesspit-of-climate-misinformation-
https://www.insider.com/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-australia-bushfires-2020-1
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/1/24/how-murdochracy-controls-the-climate-debate-in-australia
16 scientists wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal claiming climate change is fake. Many of these scientists are linked to the oil industry.
255 respected scientists wrote an open letter to the Wall Street Journal saying climate change is real and denouncing disinformation.
https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2012/wall-street-journal-and-climate-change-denial/68696
You know what scares me the most? The Wall Street Journal is the favorite newspaper of high-income americans. It's the one newspaper that american CEOs trust.
Journalists working for the Wall Street Journal aren't stupid.
They perfectly know what's going on. Their journalism earns the paper credibility. That credibility is weaponized by Murdoch to spread his propaganda.
A few years ago, hundreds of Wall Street Journal journalists wrote a letter to Publisher Almar Latour, saying their newspaper is used to spread disinformation:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/letter-from-wsj-news-staff-to-publisher-almar-latour/ea78fefb574b76a6/full.pdf
They were told to fuck off if they don't want to be fired. Anyone subscribing to the WSJ is part of the problem.
Rupert Murdoch has done a staggering amount of damage. And people still "trust" his garbage media. The New York Post is one of the most visited website in the US.
it was because of this fuck that we got stuck with an inferior NBN in Australia. We could have had a MINIMUM of 1Gbps for almost EVERYONE, but this fucker didn't want his fuckwit foxtel to have competition, so he decided (let's face it, HE decided) that his puppets turnballs was to gut the NBN, and now we're stuck with a multibillion dollar failure.
Fuck the murdochs so fucking hard. I have an (ir)rational hatred of them. WE COULD HAVE HAD 1Gbps!
And yet, Murdoch is simply a symptom of the real disease, capitalism. Without him, we would still be in the same situation, because capitalism requires endless growth and both incentivizes and requires greed and individualistic behavior from those with power.
A global socialist revolution is the only thing that can save our species and the biosphere.
This is an incredible comment. With a little work it would make a fine article to publish online.
We know he's a monster and yet we do nothing to stop him. The laws are powerless. Simply shooting him is seen as gauche.
I don't mind being seen as gauche.
The problem is I live thousands of miles away and have no guns.
Plus it isn't just Murdoch. Shooting him is a good start, yes. But just about every large corporation CEO, and very billionaire etc, and most world leaders, and most politicians also need to be 'taken out' for anything to really start changing.
(Which I'm fine with btw. Shoot away, Luigi)