Saturday, July 16, 2011

And Now For Something Completely Different...

A British voice of sanity--Melanie Phillips's--on the Murdoch feeding frenzy:
The left hate Murdoch because he alone managed to thwart its hegemony over western culture and its agenda to undermine it. Maybe he has been a source of corruption in public life. If so, all responsible should be brought heavily to book. But the corruption goes far wider and deeper. It is a culture that has rotted from the inside out, and the Murdoch empire was merely a scavenger on the carcass. The frenzy against him is the rage of Caliban at his own reflection.

1 comment:

Carlos Perera said...

You have to love Mealnie Phillips' prose style. How many contemporary opinion journalists would allude to a passage from _The Tempest_? As long as we have a few public intellectuals in the mold of Ms. Phillips, Western Civ might just have a chance.