[P2P-F] Fwd: Global Platforms Spread Criminal Content Contagion of Toxic Tabloids

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From: Nicholas Roberts <nicholas at themediasociety.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:57 PM
Subject: Global Platforms Spread Criminal Content Contagion of Toxic
Tabloids
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org

Fox News is the TV version of News of the World.

Everything about Fox News has the same pattern as News International
newspapers.

Fill in the blanks about wire-tapping etc. They sure use entrapment,
bullying and opinion that borders on systematic lies and propaganda.

The UK newspapers are one small set of a single, global newspaper production
system.

140 newspapers share a single production system where all news is shared. So
a crime in one newspaper is a crime for all.

The cancer metaphor is important because, like any multinational
corporation, it has an integrated production system. In the case of the
newspapers at News Corp, roughly 150 newspapers share a single platform.
There is very deep intermingling between newspapers brands, within locations
such as Wapping, the news factory for News of The World (and The Sun, The
Times etc) and between geographic locations.

Economies of scale in newspaper production drove the consolidation of
newspaper production on a single platform, and the need to syndicate
finished stories and rapidly share leads and editorial processes within the
corporation and against competitors means there is a very big chance that
the NoTW toxic tabloid journalism contagion will spread. The criminal
content did not remain isolated in Wapping, instead it would of been spread
throughout the 150 newspaper network.

Cross media would also have ensured the textual content would of been spread
into other formats like TV. In Australia FoxTel and Sky, in UK BSkyB, the US
Fox.

News International's newspapers are a small set of a single, unified,
global, newspaper production system. Its integrated principally by the
digital pagination and advertising system, which operates on the same
software as airlines or banks. Its a real-time market for matching ads to
editorial and selling content. There are 140 newspapers around the world ALL
sharing the same production system. The printing presses are also part of
the system, and KRM has made massive investments in these news factories
over the years.

So, an editor in Australia can see into the news desk of the News of the
World and see what is happening! Staff are moved around the empire all the
time. Journalists and editors loyal to Murdoch, and prepared to do the dirty
work are rewarded and the industrial fuedalism of personal loyalty is very
strong.

In this global news factory network, the cheapest form of content is sleaze,
then sport. Next is gossip. Then opinion. In the UK its ok to do all of
this, there is a market. In the US, the Republican moral majority does not
allow titties on television, but Fox News is built on gossip. Research is
expensive and often reveals unwelcome truths for the proprietor or his
advertisers. Sleaze, sport, gossip and opinion are cheap and can be used to
attack enemies.

Fox News is tabloid journalism for the TV age. I hate to think what is being
done at MySpace.

It will be hard to contain the criminal liability just to the UK papers when
the business and editorial systems are global. 140 newspapers which now
includes the WSJ

Just like the financial systems spread contagion in realtime, so too the
toxic journalism and criminal content is automatically syndicated worldwide
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