OutFOXed Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism

We received and order from one of Murdoch’s apparatchiks, if you will, that we should cut away from our newscast and start carrying a fawning tribute to Ronald Reagan that was airing at the Republican convention. We were stunned because, up until that point, we were allowed to do legitimate news. And, suddenly we were ordered from the top to carry propaganda.

We weren’t necessarily , as it was told to us, a news gathering organization so much as we were a proponent of a point of view.

Every morning there was a detailed list of subjects to talk about and not talk about. They were just actually issuing edicts to the reporters to control what they could say and how they could say it.

The 1st rule of being a great propaganda system and why our system is vastly superior to anything in the old Soviet Union is not that people think they’re being subject to propaganda. The people that don’t think that, they aren’t looking for that, they’re much easier to propagandize. And that’s the genius of our media system is a system of ideology and control compared to an authoritarian system.