Consider the Source

Since Rupert Murdoch's News Corp bought the Wall Street Journal, the stodgy but once-credible paper has been losing altitude in its reporting of political news. You might hope that this business paper would remain objective in reporting business news. Not bloody likely. Here are today's headlines from Google News reporting results of the last quarter:

• Good news from the Wall Street Journal itself: News Corp Raises Outlook For Annual Operating Income
• Bad news from competitor BusinessWeek: News Corp. Fourth-Quarter Profit to Fall on TV, Film
• A mixture of good and bad news from the Associated Press: News Corp. profit down but advertising rebounds

This one-man Orwellian apotheosis, Murdoch, continues to infect America news with his adopted British cynical disregard for objective news teamed with a native Aussie tenacity.

Now Fox-WSJ are furiously beating a drum along with Fox “news” that President Obama was slow to respond to BP's oil drilling disaster in the gulf. They will go to any length and sink to any depth to blame the President and divert attention from this abject failure of big business. Yesterday, they 'reported' (and decided) that the National Guard shooting of Kent State students 40 years ago was somehow 'triggered' by the (unarmed, non-violent) demonstrators themselves. Shameless.