Free Trickle Down Tyranny by Michael Savage Page B

valid educational purpose. Destroying the nation’s most popular cable news network is not exactly like teaching little kids about American history. It is pure political partisanship, and that is not supposed to be tax-exempt. So Fox’s news anchors and reporters began producing stories that questioned whether Media Matters should enjoy its special status with the IRS. 15
    Why do Soros and the establishment media hate Murdoch so much?
    What really bothers Soros and the media is that Murdoch offers a profitable alternative that beats them in ratings and readers. Murdoch broke the unions in the United Kingdom and weakened them in the United States, and his papers’ continuous stream of scoops makes the left look lazy and clueless.
    Soros has already destroyed Conrad Black’s media empire—Black at one time owned the Telegraph newspaper group, the Chicago Sun-Times , and Canada’s National Post , among other outlets 16 —the only other conservative alternative to the left’s media monopoly. He wants to do the same thing to Murdoch, so that the public will be denied its right to an alternative free press. He only cares about the First Amendment when it helps him. Soros and his leftist allies really want a one-party press, like Syria or Iran.
    When Media Matters was attacked by Fox, Soros fought back. Within weeks of Fox’s coverage of Media Matters, the British press discovered a “scandal.” Murdoch-owned newspapers in the United Kingdom were paying private detectives and listening in on phone calls to get personal information about government officials, professional athletes, movie stars, and even the royal family. 17 These are not exactly military secrets, but it made the establishment very angry. They don’t like to be embarrassed. But these gossipy items thrilled readers, who bought Murdoch’s newspapers to read the latest. So, all around the world, newspapers are dying while in Britain Murdoch found a way to make them thrive.
    Of course, the rival media barons, stoked by Soros’s front groups, said this was a scandal. And it was. The British detectives appeared to have violated British laws and violated the privacy of hundreds of people over the years.
    But the mainstream media in the United States didn’t tell you the full story. Remember, they compete with Murdoch, too, and they love Soros as much as they loathe Murdoch.
    Again, I’m not a fan of Rupert Murdoch, but I’m here to tell you the truth, no matter who it helps or hurts.
    Here are some things that the Government-Media Complex doesn’t want you to know.
    There is a real public benefit to at least some of what Murdoch’s papers did. Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper, while Rebekah Brooks was its editor, violated the privacy rights of convicted pedophiles to reveal to the public that dozens and dozens of them were out of prison and living in neighborhoods with young families with small children. 18
    If you had a child and lived next door to a pedophile, do you think the government should protect his privacy rights over the safety of your children?
    Neither did most Britons.
    When they learned about the dangerous criminal living in their midst, they were angry and demanded changes. That uproar led to the passage of “Sarah’s Law” in the British parliament, giving the public right to access government databases to learn the home addresses of convicted pedophiles. Soros’s minions screamed that the pedophiles’ privacy rights were violated and that they had paid their debt to society, but it didn’t matter. Most of these child-molesting felons were forced to move away from neighborhoods packed with the very children that they once preyed upon.
    Another thing that the Government-Media Complex won’t tell you is that most British papers routinely hire detectives and trample on privacy rights. What Murdoch’s papers did was routine in Britain. Indeed, I found a 2006 report called “What price privacy now?”—developed for Parliament