Benjamin Franklin’s poem about the necessity of a free press is remarkably timely.
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Franklin on Freedom of the Press
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Fox Would Appall Conservative Trollope
Conservative though he is, Anthony Trollope would be appalled at the arrogance of our rightwing media, given the way he goes after “The Jupiter” in “The Warden.”
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Which Shakespearean Hero Is Murdoch?
So which Shakespeare hero is Rupert Murdoch? Marche floats the names of Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, Richard II and Richard III. I’d peg him as Iago.
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Citizen Murdoch Anti-Elitist? Think Again
Since the Rupert Murdoch scandal broke, a number of commentators have compared the media magnate to Charles Foster Kane of Orson Welles’s 1941 classic. The parallel casts light on one of Murdoch’s most galling claims: that he is anti-elitist.
