The Kultursmog Against Murdoch

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American Spectator:

WASHINGTON -- Do we need any other evidence that the Kultursmog exists and that it is international -- at least in the English-speaking world -- than that the biggest news story in the United Kingdom today is also the biggest news story here? I have in mind the telephone-hacking story about News of the World reporters in London listening in on private conversations and possibly bribing Scotland Yard. The Kultursmog is that set of ideas and tastes that are utterly polluted by left-wing values and carried by the Liberal news media to pollute peoples' minds.

Every day the money-losing New York Times and its subsidiaries throughout mainstream media hammer away at the story of a scandal in faraway England, and, of course, they have located Rupert Murdoch at the very heart of the story. Over the weekend he flies to London. He meets with top aides. The News of the World is killed off. Now a deal for BSkyB is being pulled. What comes next? Well what comes next, reports Reuters, is that the American Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into Murdoch's company, News Corp., on this side of the Atlantic for criminal behavior. Or maybe they are not. No one will go on the record and say they are investigating. Oh yes, and by the way we have a constitution here with a First Amendment. The Founding Fathers in their infinite wisdom did not want to see the press harassed by innuendo.

Anyone encouraging the government of the United States to investigate a news organization without proper cause is an enemy of freedom. And the harassment of Rupert Murdoch is being executed by enemies of free speech. Step back a minute. Murdoch has a record of saving the free press. He has propped up newspapers all over the English-speaking world. He has purchased the greatest newspaper in America, The Wall Street Journal, and made it better. He has added a second voice to the American media echo chamber, the conservative voice; and by giving the citizenry a chance through his papers and Fox News to decide for themselves which side they are on in important issues of the day, he is a threat to the Kultursmog. That is what is going on with these tedious daily stories in the Times about London skullduggery, and many Americans know it. The Times is fooling no one.