[potatoman2]

What's wrong with News Corp?

[fweespeech]

News Corp biases its companies in favor of News Corp. The Economist has always been the hallmark of an independent newspaper that published a consistent of opinions in line with reality.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/news-c...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/21/attacks-on-abc-...

And I don't think anyone reasonable believes Fox is anything but a Conservatives-centric news network that plays out the News Corp official line in all situations.

[dredmorbius]

The Economist does in fact have a marked and explicit editorial mission to promote free trade principles, set forth in their Prospectus[1], specifically, that "ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day—political events—and parliamentary discussions; and particularly to all such as relate immediately to revenue, commerce, and agriculture; or otherwise affect the material interests of the country", and "POPULAR MOVEMENTS: A report and account of all popular movements throughout the country in favour of Free Trade."

Unlike some organisations (e.g., NewsCorp), these biases are at least explicitly stated, if not widely known.

While I generally respect it, I find its skew at times quite painful to swallow. At least the writing is generally well executed.

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Notes:

1. http://www.economist.com/node/1873493

[fweespeech]

There is a world of difference between a group with the integrity to state its biases publicly and one that hides them in a dozen puppet papers.

[dredmorbius]

Well, yes, but that wasn't my argument.

It also doesn't address any unstated biases The Economist Group might have.

[fweespeech]

I don't believe they have unstated biases on an institutional scale. Individual author may have biases but all of them do.

[andrepd]

The most recent and most serious scandal involving News Corporation was 2011 phone hacking scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_News_Corporation_scandals). Gives you an idea of what sort of scumbags run that mega-conglomerate.

[bduerst]

That's the most recent? Just in July there were supposedly part of a giant plan with the MPAA to slander Google to manipulate stock prices. It's amazing anyone takes NewsCorp seriously.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/72607/20150731/mpaa-secret...

[arethuza]

I find it impossible to think of News Corp without recalling Sun headlines like "It's The Sun Wot Won It" and "Gotcha":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_The_Sun_Wot_Won_It

[ctz]

Don't forget "The Truth".

[pyre]

A better question is what do you think isn't wrong with News Corp.?

[riffraff]

no it isn't, unless you assume the person you reply to already knows about the topic and is defending it.

But if you consider the question as "I don't know what is wrong with news corp" than it's the best question you can ask.

[toomuchtodo]

Its what would happen if a publishing company was run by Darth Vader and the Emperor, with occasional consulting performed by Dick Cheney.

[venomsnake]

Well Glenn Beck was as close as you could get to Jar Jar binks ...

[M2Ys4U]

Jar Jar Binks is far more likeable.

[mpweiher]

Aport from everything?