December 5 – The Kingmaker Fox News Tries to Recruit Petraeus for President; Why is Obama’s FCC Rewarding Murdoch?; Egypt’s Revolution Takes an Ugly Turn

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Then we look further into the malignant effect of the Murdoch empire on journalism and politics with Timothy Karr, the Senior Director of Strategy for Free Press who is trying to prevent Obama’s FCC from removing the cross-ownership rules preventing media moguls from owning Newspaper and Television monopolies in the same markets. In spite of Murdoch’s and Fox News’s efforts to deny Obama a second term, the Obama Administration appear to be rewarding Murdoch, allowing him to buy the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.

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Then finally we look into escalating street battles in Egypt between the secular young revolutionaries who toppled Mubarak and the Muslim Brotherhood who ended up capturing political power. Juan Cole, professor of Modern Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author of “Engaging the Muslim World” joins us to discuss the growing polarization of Egyptian politics as the new fundamentalist leader grabs more power.