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More on Fox, Murdoch, and the bastards bankrolling the Nazis Fascists: Rupert Redux. by Michael Tomasky. Tolerance for other views has been part of the very essence of liberalism since John Stuart Mill. Read Lionel Trilling's brief introduction to The Liberal Imagination: He fretted not that conservatism might one day overtake liberalism (the notion was laughable in 1949) but that conservatism was so weak that liberalism would grow flaccid from its ideas not facing rigorous-enough scrutiny from the other side (which happened, in certain respects).
Well, this isn't 1949, modern conservatism is not founded on toleration for other points of view, and Mr. Murdoch has an empire that's just getting up a head of steam (FOX News Europe? FOX News India?) and that's out to smash everything we believe. We need to quit being so damn reasonable about it. Of course, for more on the Conservative Media, I'd once again suggest Alterman's book: What Liberal Media?
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Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 3:14 PM
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