It’s always good to understand what you are representing before you assume it to be acceptable. I’m sure over 90 % of the people who are taking the time to read this blog have a MySpace page (including me). Although it’s becoming a little played out, for a while it was the hottest way to reconnect with old friends, hit up groupies, or push a product to a mass audience. The networking site has made stars in a matter of months (Soulja Boy used the site to create a fan base and it eventually turned the youngster into a 17-year-old millionaire). But MySpace is owned by a company called News Corp. which is ran by a shrewd little guy from Australia named Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch is a billionaire who also publishes 175 newspapers, owns Twentieth Century Fox Studio, Fox Network and the infamous Fox News. The dude handles his business, but he also has an evil agenda that only grows as he gets more money.
Here are a few things you should know about Murdoch:
Murdoch gave "his full backing to the war, praising George Bush as acting 'morally' and 'correctly' and describing Tony Blair as 'full of guts'" for his support of the war. Murdoch said just before the war, "We can't back down now – I think Bush is acting very morally, very correctly."
Murdoch specifically created Fox News in order to counteract CNN and what he called “Left-wing bias.” Fox News has signature shows by Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and a slew of other right-winger (republicans) hosts. Fox News is likely the most one-sided station on television. The station often praises Bush, backs the NRA, condemns democrats, they called Michelle Obama a "Baby Momma," and they played the Jeremiah Wright sermon so much that I thought that they would include it in their new fall line-up.
But Murdoch maybe on his way to the biggest bluff in his career. During an interview with Kara Swisher at the All Things Digital Conference, Murdoch praised Barack Obama and said that he may vote for him in November. However, this is not the time to become giddy. Murdoch is always playing chess and is probably positioning himself for the next takeover.
With all that said. Here is Nas and his new video for the song “Sly Fox.”
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man thats really powerful. i got the nas when it first hit so i heard sly fox but to read your history on M. and to see nas's video really puts into perspective the terms "the powers that be" or "the man". It seems abnormally super villianish the reality of our media, our government and sadly our people. But for every villian there is a hero ;-) (and thankfully heroes generally have larger squads)
True, it's always good to understand what you like and why you like a certain thing. At times, you never know who you're giving power to by buying into a product. Your favorite product could be created by a person who wishes to destroy every person who looks like you.
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