This kind of campaign coverage makes me see red. That last snarky comment is thrown in there as if it negates everything Edwards said - and it clearly didn’t:
CONWAY, N.H. — Responding to a question about media consolidation, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said that consolidation is a problem because it is “about different voices”.
“I am not particularly interested in seeing Rupert Murdoch own every newspaper in America,” Edwards said about the owner of the Fox News Channel and the News Corporation that is completing a purchase of the Wall Street Journal.
He said media consolidation was “very damaging” to American democracy and that a consolidated media give a “distorted view” of events.
It should be noted that Edwards received nearly $800,000 in a book contract from one of Murdoch’s companies, HarperCollins.
If anything it strengthens what he said, for the following reasons:
1. Rupert Murdoch owns so must stuff that when you’re shopping around a book on politics you are almost guaranteed to be publishing through him
2. Wow, this politician had the guts to take shots at Murdoch even though he was highly indebted to him, probably he feels pretty strongly about this issue.