This is what's wrong with the news these days.

[kandrathe]

... "The ruling ideas of every epoch in history are the ideas of the ruling class" (Marx, The German Ideology 1845).

You'd think that not every issue in this world needs be re-molded into the nail, thus necessitating the Marxist hammer.

In essence then, power naturally seeks to perpetuate itself. It is an obvious statement. and, "to the victors, go the spoils" -- corollary "and the aggrandizement in the history books". Which is another obvious statement.

In that Rupert Murdoch has built, owns, controls and perpetuates a dominant control over a significant amount of news around the world girds the statements that "He" may be the trouble with news reporting. Maybe his dominance is not the only one, but certainly important enough to be amongst the leading issues, if not the leading issue.

As a society in the US, we have acknowledged the issues of Capitalism run amok, about a hundred years ago (Sherman Act 1890, the Clayton Act 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act 1914). The regulation of that unrestrained power began in earnest just 7 years after Marx death.

The former leading Yugoslav communist, diplomat, author, Leo Mates, once remarked, "If we had had Sen. Sherman, we never would have needed Karl Marx."

You might look at abusive monarchs and say the problem is due to monarchy. Britain's answer was Parliamentary democracy. There are problems with unrestrained anything, which are dealt with by legal societal checks on that "unrestrained" power.