If anyone ever tells you that the ownership of the media doesn’t matter: Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post ran this as the cover story of its print edition today, after Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has bitched publicly about Gabby Douglas’s “lack of patriotism.”
Granted, Aly Raisman apparently gave the Murdoch crew their own wet dream, wearing a star-spangled leotard and paying tribute to the Israeli athletes killed in Munich. But still. This is how the right controls the news narrative: by fitting every story that comes up into its pre-written myth.
