Rupert Murdoch is a very powerful man, he owns several, very large media groups (Fox news and the British tabloid "the Sun" to name but a few) and is a major player in today's economy.
My opinion on Mr. Murdoch has declined somewhat of late, as I actually detest with a passion the pile of opinionated, xenophobic, shite that is "the Sun" and the general direction that the news seems to be going in (seriously, I haven't seen/read a news report in the past few months that hasn't had at least three stories about murder/child molestation/rape, and there's also next to nothing on scientific advances, humanitarian efforts (excluding the recent Haiti disaster ofc), or, you know, anything positive).
But anyway, the source of my confusion comes from the fact that while Murdoch has obviously done very well from the whole business/economy thing, he has recently funded Avatar, a film that depicts the exact type of society Murdoch does so well off of as evil and corrupt. I'm not questioning whether it was a good idea to fund Avatar, I personally loved the film and Murdoch has quite obviously made his money back several times over from it, I'm just curious as to why he would fund a film that seems to undermine the very system that has made him so powerful. Thoughts people?
My opinion on Mr. Murdoch has declined somewhat of late, as I actually detest with a passion the pile of opinionated, xenophobic, shite that is "the Sun" and the general direction that the news seems to be going in (seriously, I haven't seen/read a news report in the past few months that hasn't had at least three stories about murder/child molestation/rape, and there's also next to nothing on scientific advances, humanitarian efforts (excluding the recent Haiti disaster ofc), or, you know, anything positive).
But anyway, the source of my confusion comes from the fact that while Murdoch has obviously done very well from the whole business/economy thing, he has recently funded Avatar, a film that depicts the exact type of society Murdoch does so well off of as evil and corrupt. I'm not questioning whether it was a good idea to fund Avatar, I personally loved the film and Murdoch has quite obviously made his money back several times over from it, I'm just curious as to why he would fund a film that seems to undermine the very system that has made him so powerful. Thoughts people?
