It really is comical how much the left wing (main stream) media is making of Murdoch's purchase of the Wall Street Journal. Let's face it, the left wingers control almost all of the important media in the country--the major networks, the news services, the news magazines and the big city newspapers. For many years they have operated with little or no opposition. Now, right wingers have a voice on talk radio and a few major media outlets. This has the left crying foul because a differing opinion is out there spoiling their fun. Oh, they deny that the main stream media is a puppet of the left but the facts speak for themselves. Look at their editorial pages and political pages. In fact, it's even more widespread than that--they slant their news pages as well. It's all about gaining power so they can ram their socialist agenda down our throats. They want to reshape our country so that it's citizens are totally dependent on big government. That's why they hammer us day in and day out with their propaganda. So, I say we need a lot more Murdochs in the mix.

You don't balance bias by introducing more bias. You try to elminate all bias.

We don't need Murdoch. We need the original WSJ, which was quite conservative all by itself.

So if Murcoch was all alone as a right-wing media magnate, does that mean Sir Conrad Black was some kind of socialist? And what is this socialist agenda that you fear so much? Universal health care? Is that so terrifying? Really, what mars your screed is that it lacks both (1.) a shred of supporting evidence, and (2.) an explicit statement of your fears, so they can be dealt with in some kind of sensible order. Actually , very little of this business has to do with ideology, although ideology seems to be everything to you.

Depending on where one stands in politics one will define the mainstream as NOT matching their politics. The issue with the media is that it now has a lot of commentary. This commentary is 'mixed' directly with news programs.

Fox is a great example of this but so are CNN and MSNBC.

Only a fool claims this so called mainstream media doesn't represent their views. There is no mainstream media. There is now so much media one can find media sources that match their politics. This isn't really a good thing. One is better off reading media sources that represent many difference perspectives. I read the WSJ as well as the LA Times.

How much money did they have to pay you to wright this. How much?

You so silly you doi not understand this, You do not undertstand what this is about. It is about doing the right thing and if you do not do that then you will have nothing left. Its about Karma, its about the God you wish you had. Its about doing the right thing and being afraid if you dont do that then something bigger than you will bite you in the arse.; Its about doing the right thing when you have that chance, Killing all those folks in Iraq. Now our soldiers are comminting suicide in record numbers.

From: maggie hittinger [mailto:mhittinger@sbcglobal.n­et]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:49 PM
To: 'letters@ocregister.com'
Subject: I hopeless life.

How long did we think this thing would have no repercussions?

How long did they think we could keep on doing the things they did with no piper to be paid?Now in their quest for money, thinking that was all important to us, this is the price we all have to pay. 1 in 50 children in America have Aspersers, they don’t talk they don’t communicate. How long will it take us to connect the dots?

Importing Chinese goods destroyed 4500 of our pets. Now lead threatens our children. We will never know the repercussions from this and who is left to blame?

Simply our children will be left with no ability to grasp the important concepts that make up our constitution..

As a country in our quest for money we lost our spirituality, we lost everything, thinking we could not get that back we went to church. Praying and hoping we could recover. But unless we do the right thing now we can never recover that. At last the people here are beginning to realize this.

Let me ask you why do all these people hate us? It is not because we embrace freedom but it is because they think we are so dishonest. We are not dishonest they made us something we were not and I think it’s about time we took that back. I think it’s about time we took that back and told the whole world we are not them. We are the Americans. They grabbed a hold of us and made us into something we were not.

They killed our kids just for money.

And now we are about to make them pay for all the things they did.

Take care of youre 401K Call me when it goes down.Goodness did they take care of you.

Sell it because this thing is about to tank.

Really? I mean c'mon now...really? How many "left-wingers" read the already conservative Wall Street Journal to begin with? I mean.....really? And they're in a huge uproar? Really?

Are you one of those really creepy guys that likes to pretend hes being persecuted and a martyr? Well Boogiety-boogiety boo the left is out to get YOU!!!!! lol

At least get your grammar right in your post. It's "its" not "it's", as in "its citizens".