rupert murdoch: weapon of mass destruction?

I can’t say I’ve ever had much respect for any Murdoch publication or news network. News Corporation is just far too sinister a name. But today has, perhaps, been the day in which I’ve most reviled the corporation and its powerbase.

It might well have been this utter mangling of the Hutton report (transcribed here) which set it off [thanks Joff and Martin, for those links].

Or I guess it could have been this rather less incendiary, rather more revealing piece in the Washington Post.

Either way, I’m just glad Murdoch isn’t allowed to run for US President. A Berlusconi-figure in Italy is bad enough, scale it up to the US and I’d be tempted to start reading Left Behind novels as futurism. Heavens forbid.