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.
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.
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