{"id":2482,"date":"2003-06-07T16:35:47","date_gmt":"2003-06-07T23:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/silencing-the-conservative-press\/"},"modified":"2003-06-07T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2003-06-07T23:35:47","slug":"silencing-the-conservative-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/07\/silencing-the-conservative-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Silencing the conservative press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWe surmised a few days ago that the opponents of the FCC&#8217;s new ownership rules weren&#8217;t as interested in promoting media diversity as in silencing conservative voices. As if on cue, Moveon.org has launched a &#8220;media monopoly&#8221; fundraiser aimed at Rupert Murdoch:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moveon.org\/monopoly\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"murdoch.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bennett.com\/blog\/pitchers\/murdoch.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the campaign&#8217;s name betrays its purpose: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moveon.org\/monopoly\/\"><i>Media Monopoly<\/i><\/a> seeks to recreate the three network liberal monopoly of the 80s, before Murdoch shook up the system with an alternate view.<\/p>\n<p>These folks do my work for me.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We surmised a few days ago that the opponents of the FCC&#8217;s new ownership rules weren&#8217;t as interested in promoting media diversity as in silencing conservative voices. As if on cue, Moveon.org has launched a &#8220;media monopoly&#8221; fundraiser aimed at Rupert Murdoch: Ironically, the campaign&#8217;s name betrays its purpose: Media Monopoly seeks to recreate the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/07\/silencing-the-conservative-press\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silencing the conservative press&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-E2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}