Propaganda Case Study: Hypocrisy & Half Truths on Hannity & O’Reilly?
Are Fox 'News' Hannity & O'Reilly Factor the Sharp Edge of Murdoch's Propaganda Machine?
December 31, 2016 / Manhattan Neighborhoods / News Analysis & Opinion / Manhattan Buzz NYC.
During 2016, I became increasingly interested in monitoring the ‘news’ coverage provided by name brand media outlets controlled by billionaire propagandist & media mogul Keith Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch's controlled media outlets include Fox News, the NY Post, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and a few years ago they also acquired the National Geographic.
Murdoch appears to use these brand name media outlets as a propaganda portfolio that he manages to shape voters’ perceptions of reality, to suit his personal and corporate objectives. Nearly all Murdoch media brands were created by others - building the public trust in them - over long periods of time. Many of the media outlets owned by Murdoch date back many decades and some date back even centuries. The creators of these older brand name media organizations gained the trust of their audiences by providing fair and balanced reports - during a time when 'Fair & Balanced' wasn't just a cynical slogan of empty words.
Murdoch, on the other hand, seems to have built his reputation gathering and publishing people's personal failings and filth. In Britain he was called the Dirty Digger and apparently he made his fortune by destroying other people's reputations. Murdoch's predatory 'news' practices appeared to first target politicians – then celebrities – and then anyone who had a filthy or macabre story that Murdoch's organization of dirty diggers could exploit into blazing tabloid headlines to sell more newspapers or increase their TV ratings.
Within the past decade people working for Murdoch's organization were alleged to have hacked thousands of people's phones to obtain information. It seems Murdoch's organization sank so low as to have collected and publicized information obtained in the voicemails of a mother whose daughter had been murdered. Murdoch's organization appeared to profit by publicizing and broadcasting the details and tragedy of this woman's poignant private life, during a period of great personal tragedy. Reality TV?
In my mind, the callousness and heartlessness of Murdoch’s organization, which reportedly used this mother’s messages to entertain his 'news' audiences was - quite frankly - beyond comprehension.
Propaganda Case Study: Hypocrisy & Half Truths on Hannity & O’Reilly
Are Fox 'News' Hannity & O'Reilly Factor the Sharp Edge of Murdoch's Propaganda Machine?
December 31, 2016 / Manhattan Neighborhoods / News Analysis & Opinion / Manhattan Buzz NYC. Continued.
What I found in doing this research paints an unflattering portrait of a very wealthy, very powerful, and very heartless man who appears to have greatly profited from the destruction of other people's reputations. It seems Murdoch's predatory organization fed upon and further victimized people who were already victims.
But the research also paints an equally unflattering picture of the people in Murdoch’s audience - the people who buy his newspapers emblazoned with such tawdry tales, and the viewing public that patronizes his organization's tabloid and propagandist broadcast outlets. A closer look at the workings of two of Murdoch's prize 'henchmen' - as the NY Daily News once referred to other Murdoch hires - are the subject of this report.
Dirty digging is only where the Murdoch story begins, as he appears to have found a second use for the putrid private information his predatory organization obtained by legal and illegal means. He appears to have found that he could change the course of political aspirants’ careers, and subsquently public policy, and even the course of nations - by using dirty digging information accompanied by propagandist reporting - to disrupt, distract and destroy the public discourse.
Murdoch seems to use his media properties as propaganda machines to feed his insatiable lust for more, more, more money and more, more, more power. He seems to behave like a drug addict who cares not for the people affected by him, but only that he gets his greedy insatiable fix for more.
What I found most intriguing is the way Murdoch appears to have perfected portraying dirty digs from a variety angles, in various types of reports, and presented by a variety of his knuckleheaded broadcasters. By using a portfolio of his media outlets, it appears he can insert a rumor, or viewpoint, or soundbyte into the public arena - and then amplify and distort it - or use it to distract the public in a manner that might fool even Einstein. Hence he appears well positioned to plant the seeds of his distorted perceptions into the public’s mind, in order to discredit those he opposes, while promoting those he favors, to the general population. This incredible mass market power, propaganda, appears to have enabled him to become the most powerful, billionaire media mogul in the world.
Sean Hannity is one of Murdoch’s highly paid ‘henchmen’. As previously mentioned, I say henchmen as the NY Daily News used that term to describe some of the people working for Murdoch’s organization during the British phone hacking scandal. And the more I become familiar with Murdoch, his outlets, and some of the people working for him - the more that term henchman - seems to fit.
Over time I’ve come to see the Murdoch organization as a sort of media terrorist group that seeks to hide its disruptive works behind the cloak of a much larger faith based entity - kind of like ISIS. Murdoch’s organization appears to hide its propagandist works behind the ideology of Conservatism, while ISIS hides its terrorist works behind the religion of Islam. Both organizations likely do this to arouse support of the masses - even though neither the Murdoch nor ISIS organizations - appear to be true believers of the much larger faiths to which they claim to belong.
Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly appear to be two of Murdoch’s leading propagandists in America. Both men have been well paid to carry on what appears to be their deceit of their Fox 'News' audiences. And both men are like televangelist preachers to what is likely the most devout believers of the Murdoch propaganda machine - which seems a charade as a bona fide American news organization.
Hannity and O’Reilly describe themselves as Conservatives, but like the Fox 'News’ icon emblazoned on their broadcasts, their purported allegiance to Conservatism appears to play second fiddle to serving the goals of billionaire Boss Murdoch, so that they can continue to enrich themselves.
Murdoch’s organization generally appears to align itself with conservative elements in Australia, Britain and America. But Murdoch’s real allegiance to any ideology is questionable, as his organization appears to have readily FLIP FLOPPED political sides when it has suited their interests. One can never be sure, but I sense Murdoch is a political atheist who has no allegiance to principles of any nation or any political ideology - ONLY THE DEVIL'S OWN MONEY & POWER.
Murdoch has reportedly described himself as a Libertarian and based on what I know of that characterization, it would appear to support what's been previously stated.
Have Hannity and O’Reilly shamed their Irish names by propagandistically deceiving the general public, while serving their master - the World's Wealthiest Propagandist - Media Mogul Keith Rupert Murdoch?
Start watching them and you'll soon have your answer.
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