The strategy of Rupert Murdoch, always arch-conservative in his politics, has been to start or take over and use media to further his political viewpoint.

Rupert Murdoch–style journalism comes to California with a front-page call (California Post, 2/1/26) to arrest “violent” ICE protesters. (No injuries were mentioned in the accompanying article about the “downtown carnage.”) Last week, Rupert Murdoch launched the California Post*,* a West Coast counterpart to his New York Post*.*

Oh joy.

When I was growing up in New York City, the New York Post, under publisher Dorothy Schiff, was one of my favorite newspapers*.* I relished reading the columns in it by James Wechsler and Max Lerner, and its news coverage in general. The Post was a good paper.

I doubt it, on authority of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/26338