I heard this morning that Rupert Murdoch’s sons are now engaged in a battle over who will inherit their father’s media empire. They’re trying to keep things quiet and under-the-radar by holding proceedings in Reno, Nevada. “Rupert Murdoch and his family flew in from all over the world to determine how the empire would be divided among his children when the 93-year-old patriarch dies.” They obviously want the huge empire to stay in the family’s hands, just like drug barons or mafiosa trying to retain control of their cartel; but wouldn’t it be better to just break the whole thing up? I don’t need to explain how fetid and perverse Murdoch’s mouthpieces like Fox News have become: as explained here for example, they are nothing but endless streams of baseless right-wing drivel, deliberately brainwashing and misleading anyone stupid enough to watch them. Perhaps Sky News here in the UK isn’t quite that bad, but from what I’ve seen it’s getting there. And before anyone chimes in, this isn’t a case of me wanting to silence anyone I don’t agree with: Such blatantly biassed, one-sided news sources are an obvious danger to democracy, particularly if they are all in the control of one deranged, all-powerful old man and his family, who’s overt, stated aim is to get everyone seeing things their narrow, distorted, right-wing way. Thus it seems to me that this would be the perfect opportunity to finally get rid of this shitstain on the mediascape.