The occasion was a farewell dinner for President George W. Bush. The host was UK PM Gordon Brown. The special guest was Rupert Murdoch. A gaggle of historians sat in to capture the mood as two seasoned war pigs reminded the relatively new boy that this age of war cannot end.
Not yet.
Although the crowd of protesters was only a few thousand strong, their chants of derision at Bush could apparently be heard inside the building, where Iran was served as the main meal.
A new war, the start of a bigger war, is good news for Rupert Murdoch.
Not so for Gordon Brown, or Iran. Or American troops in Iraq. Or for those who don’t think Russia and China should be given easy reasons to ferment a deeper military alliance.
With hundreds of newspaper front pages to fill, when the Iraq War is slipping deeper into the middle pages, and with tens of thousands of hours of cable news programs demanding a big issue focus, a War On Iran, in particular a nuclear war on Iran (or with Iran) would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in profit for Rupert ‘Always Wrong On Iraq’ Murdoch. Massive jumps in newspaper sales, bigger cable TV news audiences. Just like the Iraq War did. Fox News never had such big audiences as it did during the ‘Mission Accomplished’ days of 2003.
Any media Murdoch owns will rise in value just before the new war begins. Murdoch knows War On Iran will be good for business. His business anyway. And the war industry.
Murdoch creates realities. That is his business. He openly admits he tells his readers what to think, that his world media followed the Bush line of War On Iraq propaganda and that he influences editors into running his agenda. Was there any Murdoch newspaper in the world that was not fully for the War On Iraq? It will be the same this time. In fact, it already is.
Filed under: Corporations, Iran, Media, War | Tagged: Murdoch, Rupert
