The message:. Howard Kurtz. That's right, he said Jewish-owned press, reviving the old canard about Jews controlling the media. Who, exactly, is he talking about? Watch: Petraeus overkill or permissable pandering? Beyond that, it's hard to take ethical lectures from a man who presided over a phone-hacking scandal in London that -- whatever his knowledge of it -- prompted him to close the longstanding News of the World tabloid and has led to the arrests of several of his former lieutenants.
Watch: Orgy of advice on getting away with Petraeus-like affair. What's more, Murdoch has never been shy about interfering in his newsrooms -- cozying up to politicians ranging from Ed Koch to Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair -- so maybe he expects others to shape news coverage in the same way. Murdoch's Fox News portrayed Mitt Romney as a more viable candidate than he turned out to be. He is suggesting that Jewish Americans have a hidden agenda in which their religion trumps their commitment to journalism.
Since Murdoch finds these outlets allegedly dominated by Jews to be anti-Israel, perhaps he thinks they are of the self-loathing variety. Though Egypt then, as now, has some influence over events in Gaza it hosted failed talks on a failed cease-fire attempt overnight Hamas very much marches to its own drummer. Hopefully someone at Fox News will fill Murdoch in.
The second quote from Murdoch up above is equal parts troubling and illuminating. He seems to believe that the owners of media outlets should require their reporting to conform to their owners political preferences and world-views, rather than reflect observed reality. It's fair to assume that's what happens at his sprawling press holdings, particularly his US-based flag-ship Fox News. That's the illuminating part. The troubling part is his apparent belief that Jewishness should be synonymous with support for the current Israeli government, even for Jewish-Americans.
It's long been an anti-Semitic trope in US and European life that Jews are not truly loyal to the countries of their birth and citizenship, that for them Israel comes first.
Such false claims are rightly pushed back on. Then there's the frequently made anti-Semitic claim that the "Jews control the media," usually made within various conspiracy theories. Imagine if Murdoch's sentence was turned around, but used the same logic: What if he had asked: "Why is Jewish owned press so consistently pro-Israel in every crisis? Murdoch apologized, sort of, today : " 'Jewish owned press' have been sternly criticised, suggesting link to Jewish reporters.
Don't see this, but apologise unreservedly. There is of course a lively debate among Jewish Americans, and Jews in Israel, about the rightness and wrongness of Israeli government behavior. In the pages of the Jerusalem Post you will find an editorial-line closer to Mr.
Murdoch's heart, and in the pages of Haaretz a general approach that he would disapprove of. But no matter. Murdoch forthrightly speaks his mind and that's refreshing and unusual. It's a useful data-point to consider when consuming news produced by his employees.
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He said the drawing, published January 27 - International Holocaust Memorial Day - in the Sunday Times, was "a criticism of Netanyahu, and not of the Jewish people: there was no slight whatsoever intended against them.
Murdoch's statement was made in response to criticism from leaders of the Jewish community in the United Kingdom who said the drawing was reminiscent of anti-Semitic blood libels. Jon Benjamin, the head of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, called the cartoon "appalling" and said it was similar to the offensive images of Jews "more usually found in parts of the virulently anti-Semitic Arab press.
Benjamin said its appearance in the broadsheet on International Holocaust Remembrance Day added insult to injury. Earlier on Monday, the Sunday Times defended the cartoon, saying it was "aimed squarely at Mr.
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