“In his new biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson describes some of the behind-the-scenes dealings between the Apple CEO and publishers after the iPad was launched in 2010,” Steve Myers reports for Poynter. “According to Isaacson, Jobs was particularly interested in helping The New York Times because it hadn’t yet figured out how to charge for digital content: ‘One of my personal projects this year, I’ve decided, is to try to help — whether they want it or not — the Times,’ he told me early in 2010. ‘I think it’s important for the country for them to figure it out.'”
“Isaacson describes publishers’ frustration over being unable to access subscribers’ data and credit card information. A New York Times circulation executive pushed back against Jobs, as did Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes. But Rupert Murdoch relented, recalling later that he knew Jobs wouldn’t bend, and he wouldn’t have either if he were in Jobs’ position,” Myers reports. “Jobs and Murdoch’s work on The Daily created a bond between the two, with Jobs having Murdoch over to his house twice for dinner. ‘Jobs joked that he had to hide the dinner knives on such occasions,’ Isaacson writes, ‘because he was afraid that his liberal wife was going to eviscerate Murdoch when he walked in.'”
Myers reports, “Jobs pressed Murdoch on Fox News, arguing that the network was destructive to the nation and harmful to Murdoch’s reputation: ”You’re blowing it with Fox News,’ Jobs told him over dinner. ‘The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. You can be better, and this is going to be your legacy if you’re not careful.’ Jobs said he thought Murdoch did not really like how far Fox had gone. ‘Rupert’s a builder, not a tearer-downer,’ he said. ‘I’ve had some meetings with James, and I think he agrees with me. I can just tell.’ Murdoch later said he was used to people like Jobs complaining about Fox. ‘He’s got sort of a left-wing view on this,’ he said.”
“Murdoch agreed to have his staff create a highlight reel of a week of Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck’s shows, and Jobs later told Isaacson that he was going to ask Jon Stewart’s staff to put together a similar highlight reel,” Myers reports. “He apparently never sent it to Murdoch, who says in the book he would have been happy to have seen it.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Almost as destructive as billionaires who export thousands of jobs out of their country.
Jobs is way off base here. The destructive force in the US are labor unions and liberals. They are going all out to communize the US, take away private property, rights, destroy the constitution, and brain wash our kids. No way. Jobs wife is a huge liberal. Figures. Thank God for Fox News and the internet. Screw the garbage “Lame Stream Media”. Those days are over. We’re on to them. They don’t control the message-propaganda any more.
There’s a call for you on line two. It’s Planet Earth, wondering where you’ve got to.
I think its astounding that people like you can be so snide, as if the soviet union had never happened.. as if north korea weren’t happening now.
You’re profoundly ignorant of economics, and incapable of basic argument, yet you’re snide?
you disgust me.
Yori says: “Screw the garbage “Lame Stream Media”.” and the “engineer” picks John H. out as snide. Good one.
Liberals are idiots.
As good as Oscar Wilde, Nick! Well put and tightly reasoned!
why don’t you pay some taxes in the US
you could probably afford to have a working health and education system.
in the developed world the US has the lowest tax rate
and the lowest literacy rate
well done!
False
You’re right, we’re not the lowest, but we do rank like 21st in literacy rates amongst
Ah, silly iPhone got me. You’re right, the lowest is false, but the US does rank like 21st in literacy rates of developed countries.
Thus, the idea that these taxes are going to educate people is absurd.
Taxes just go to make politicians wealthy, they’re nothing more than theft.
Thus, the literacy rate, etc are not correlated with tax rates… but with how free the education system is.
Finland has high tax rates but a more free education system. Our education system is locked down, and so nobody learns anything.
Of course, this works for the politicians benefit because ignorant people will believe that Fox news is a destructive force.
@Engineer No disagreement there. Simply raising taxes is not going to fix our very broken education system.
Unfortunately the knee jerk reaction for government (on both sides of the fictional fence) is often that throwing money at a problem will help solve it (Dems throw money at things they want to, Repubs at things they want to, and both think the other’s spending is pointless). It almost always turns out that they haven’t planned properly what to do with the money, and the majority of it is wasted (or absconded away though sweetheart deals).
We need some fundamental education reforms and making efficient use of the money that is currently allocated.
Add your healthcare premium, the amount of your local property tax that goes to education, to your state and federal taxes, and tell me that the US has the lowest taxes.
Not to mention that conservatives are so proud of themselves when they manage to keep cutting taxes, they don’t notice that their insurance premiums are going up, because, “Hey, we cut taxes, and we cut government spending! Go us!”
Insurance premiums are going up because Obama nationalized the insurance industry, and they are raising premiums to try and survive against the ratcheting up of control by the state as the program takes effect.
Pretty soon, private insurance will be completely illegal, and the only way you’ll be able to have it, is if your plan raised premiums enough to survive.
But of course, liars like Obama and his followers will claim that premiums are high, not because they distorted the market, but because of “Greed”.
Stupid gullible people will believe them.
@Engineer
Insurance rates were already going up. They’ve been going up for decades. Saying Obama is to blame is silly. But I guess I’m biased because I was rejected for a pre-existing condition (asthma).
Also, I pose this question to all the so-called conservatives in this forum: Can you name a single prosperous economy that doesn’t also have an effective government?
Radio: They’re right and your info is way off. The US now has the ignominious distinction of having higher tax rates than the EU overall. This is a sea change from previous decades when the US could rightly brag that it had low tax rates. This unfortunate reality is one reason the Tea Party came into existence.
BTW, while US literacy and education shows poorly overall, we’re nowhere near the bottom ranks in the developed world. Look it up.
Facts and data please.
hold on there, JWSC, you’re making claims without “facts and data” when you state, “The US now has the ignominious distinction of having higher tax rates than the EU overall.” That is BS. Educate thyself: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numbers/international.cfm
Either your smoking something you shouldn’t be, or willfully ignorant … I’m just not sure which!
You have not a clue what your talking about
Such a pitiful Yankee binary stance. The world is not just black and white. Not only are there greys but there are a multitude of colours in the spectrum of human opinion.
By definition, conservatives strive to conserve or keep things the same. There can be no progress if we keep things the same. On the other hand, liberalism strives to explore all avenues of possibilities without any morality to guide them. There is no such thing as “Its all good”. There are some things that are harmful and we can wisely choose the right path.
I see… So conservatism, bad and liberalism, good. Gee, I hope you didn’t strain yourself arriving at your highly in-depth grade school understanding (which isn’t even accurate, by the way)! Thanks for boiling it all down for us, though.
… starting with this, for MDN: “[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]” – if that’s what it takes to get a “liberal” slant in here.
And this, for ecrabb: “The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive”. While I hate to cast the Conservative as the Destructive, that seems to be how it’s working with today’s NoPublicans. I’m equally bothered casting the Liberals as Constructive, though – again – that seems to be the role they are playing. Today. I’d like to see some real Progressives get into politics at the national level, but they seem to be frozen out. Perhaps because so few are in the Top 1%? Perhaps because they can’t stomach the those in national politics need to wade through on a daily basis?
Voting “No” against bad legislation that will only worsen problems rather than solve them is not destructive. Endorsing and pushing forward bad legislation that will cost the country and people billions of dollars without improving things IS destructive (Obamacare).
And anyone who thinks government can run something better than a private company is insane. It has never happened, nor will it ever happen.
And perhaps your “Progressives” are “frozen out” because they want change just for change’s sake. That’s wrong, too. Change should only be made when it improves a situation, not so that a representative can toot his own horn about how many bills he sponsored and passed.
… things, not on others. And, even when we agree, we may not actually “agree”.
For example, we agree that voting “no” on bad legislation is not destructive. How about debating legislation and getting all your talking points included – THEN voting “no”? I could certainly understand if a) the original bill was not a Republican proposal or b) the President balked at a NoPublican (note the different usages, there) talking point, but simply wasting time to make a point? Destructive.
“Obamacare” is essentially similar to the “Romneycare” we enjoy in Massachusetts, except watered down by the NoPublicans. The money spent on it should be paid for by the people who are covered but who no longer have to pay for their own health care. It would be sad if the NoPublicans had to give up their privs to be lumped in with the general population, yeah?
My home state is running health care better than the private firms that preceded it. Same with Canada, Germany, England, and Japan. To name just a few.
Since the Tea Baggers want change for the sake of change (for the top 1% only), perhaps we should freeze them out as well. If nothing else, we could go back to calling many on the Right “Republicans”, a much more honorable (and honest) term. We could also find it easier to follow the teachings of Christ – as put forth in the four gospels of the New Testament – instead of the Old Testament ravings of the Radical Religious Right who wouldn’t recognize the teachings of Christ if they sat on His jury. Despite their deluded claims to be His disciples.
+100
From a country that had 4 national parties (Canada), it is so understandable why national debates are not every nuanced in the States. You guys think black and white, and can’t handle a world with varying shades of gray.
This is a big problem here. Binary thinking. It’s the result of an education system that doesn’t foster critical thinking, instead just memorization and doing things by rote.
Also the media that caters to the least common denominator and celebrates stupidity (see: Jersey Shore, Jerry Springer).
Agree, as well as varying shades of any colour.
Actually, in the U.S., the proper labels that more accurately describe the extreme wings of each party is not Liberal and Conservative. The proper terms should be Left Biased narrow-minded and Right biased narrow-minded.
There is no “left” in American politics. The Democratic party as well as the Republican party are both right-wing parties.
Well, there is a left party – it’s called the Green Party. There are also a few leftward politicians like Kucinich and Grayson who are trying to pull the Democratic Party back to the left. The left in this country just needs to be stronger to counter the evils of conservativism.
Very true!.
Change does not always equal progress. Sometimes the best vote a representative can make is a “No” vote against bad legislation.
You are exactly what Jobs is talking about. We used to be all Americans who differed on certain issues. Now Murdoch has helped create a cultural civil war, marking sharp contrasts where there once were shades of difference, then stimulating hatred at those who don’t fit his resentful vision.
Baloney. The truth is we have become more civilized about how we debate politics. Go do some research on how newspaper editors used to skewer candidates for office, how stories were often nothing more than rumors trumped up against a newspaper’s candidate’s opponent, and how people like JFK received death threats because he was a Catholic running for president.
It’s nice to have the warm fuzzies when remembering “the good old days,” but in fact, they weren’t that good. A lot of it just wasn’t as reported as the minutia are today because we have 24/7 multiple news outlets who need something to do.
“The destructive force in the US are labor unions and liberals.”
Then I guess you missed another article in which Jobs states clearly that teacher unions are one of the biggest problems with the country. Not wanting to live in a highly stratified society where 1% have 33% and rule everything isn’t the same as being a communist.
But then again, judging by the rest of your comment, I am probably talking to the walls here.
No puke skymac, the fact is its labor unions and liberals destroying the US. Yes Jobs said that he didn’t like unions but he’s completely wrong about Fox. You freaking brain dead, liberal, zombies can’t stand that there is one major network that is actually centered (Fox) and not way off in the kook liberal fringe like all of the old guard networks. And you foreign trolls with your pathetic, condescending posts trying to enlighten us “Yanks” that the world is more than just black and white. Give me a freaking break. Most of your countries are so screwed up it’s scary. You idiots are the model that Maobama and friends want to follow. Sorry fools, we aren’t anything like you. We are strong Americans that enjoy small government, individual rights, private property, our constitution, capitalism, individual responsibility, and we hate liberal trolls. Up yours.
You are a real TOOL, man.
Lol, I love when trolls resort to verbal diarrhea.
Yori – Appreciate your willingness to demonstrate that relatively few Fox acolytes can make a point without spittle-flecked invective.
Liberals like to think they are intelligent. One look at that joke of a movement Flea Party AKA OWS, and you can see how pathetic they all are and ignorant and just plain dumb.
@Kelly
Um, you may not know this yet, but Karl Denninger, one of the original founders of the glorious Tea Party, actually is in SUPPORT of Occupy Wall Street. Maybe you only get your news at rallies?
So, is the founder of the great neo-conservative Tea Party movement also now ignorant and dumb for supporting the joke of a movement that is OWS?
It amazes me how disconnected from what’s actually happening in the country most Tea Party “conservatives” actually are.
Politics doesn’t have to be a team sport. How about some critical thinking?
My thanks to you too Kelly. The jokes just keep writing themselves, so to speak.
And this is why Thorazine isn’t safe for humans…
You did nothing but reinforce and prove his comment with your response.
God bless you Yori. Socialism is where a few have luxuries and control the poor masses. When the wall fell in East Germany they found in the upper party members houses all the modern conveniences like a dishwasher and big tv’s. Steve Jobs is not always right.
Is that as calm, rational and precise as your arguments get? Or do you always content yourself with a series of insults and shouting corny slogans like someone trying to encourage a mob?
Fox is centered??
Well then
Black is white
Up is down
Dogs and cats living together!
Its Anarchy
Just what color is the sky in your world?
You liberals and conservatives are all off base here. Steve said:
‘The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people.
I think maybe Fox can be seen as destructive in the same way that MSNBC can be seen as destructive. They pit the right and left against one another in an ongoing “FIGHT” in which neither side is willing to give and take. That deviciveness, and the resultant gridlock that prevents constructive progress is what is destructive. What has been constructive in the past is both sides respecting one another and working together. It would be very hard to argue that either Fox or MSNBC spends much time encouraging cooperation and working together.
In my opinion, Steve was referring to Fox as one of many destructive forces that encourages people to be intolerant of other peoples point of view, and encourages them to refuse to get along with and work with people “different” than themselves.
Unionized workers represent about 11% of the workforce in the US, a number that has been declining for a long time. Even though public service unionization is much higher, 35%ish, it does not support your baseless accusation that unions are a destructive force. In Germany, the unionized proportion of the work force (25%ish) is much higher though still declining over the years though their manufacturing base is still robust. Please look it up for yourself.
Good news for you, Yori, is that there is likely a spot on Perry’s campaign for you as he seems to specialize in nonsense statements.
A friend of mine who grew up in a communist country said that FOX news during the Bush administration was like state controlled media in his home country – spewing bizzare untruths 24/7.
“communize the US”
Well, then you would have to say the US has been a communism during the past 100 years. Taxes are about as low as they have ever been. If you seriously count the difference in tax rate now vs the Bush era as the difference between righteous capitalism and communism, you are so incredibly stupid that you should seriously consider committing yourself to a mental hospital.
Oh, shut up. Labour unions and liberals? I can’t believe the country that’s capable of producing a Steve Jobs is populated by such binary thinking shit heads. Fox News is a propaganda network with the clear intent of promoting and condoning the pillaging of the US by billionaires and millions, who are so patriotic that they don’t think they should have to foot the bill for the services that allows them to live in luxury. Pathetic.
Yori, I think younger confusing “totalitarianism” with “Communism.” Neither Communism or Democracy for that matter, exist in practice, only in theory. I always wonders how folks like Thomas Jefferson, a hero BTW, could fight for freedom and keep slaves. I also wonder about your kind that see things like “Obama-Care” as evil socialism while happily collecting their Social Security benefits, or getting their $12,000 carts when they can no longer walk FREE from “socialist” Medicare. You need to study these terms that come to quick to your uneducated tongue. No offense.
Yes, and call themselves American! then sit on a Presidents Economic and Jobs council and had over key IP to China. This crap doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world. Greed has been our undoing.
I’m pretty sure Apple has added about 30,000 jobs here in the US in the last 5 years, mostly in retail, but still a lot of engineers.
Of course. Conservativism is automatically and inherently destructive, and that’s why we should abandon it wholeheartedly for the good of the human race.
Yep. But calls from liberals for the beheading of the rich (Roseanne Barr) and the hate-filled diatribes against Christians are constructive?!?
I, for one, am a Christian, and I don’t support the beheading of the rich. I actually oppose the death penalty entirely.
In fact, entanglements with conservativism is the absolute worst thing that could happen to Jesus’ legacy. Jesus would be ashamed and Satan would be proud of how far Christian theology has been warped into a conservative agenda.
Yes, and modern liberalism is a mental disorder that is also inherently destructive.
Hey, look… I can make ignorant, unqualified generalizations, too!
Steve Jobs wasn’t always right (see: treating a neuroendocrine islet tumor with fruits and nuts while it spread for nine months).
Without Fox News in 2008, for example, the U.S. would have had no major news outlet that wasn’t an Obama cheerleader. Not that it helped wise up enough people.
Typical US conservative response. Brilliant.
You’re sarcastic response is worthless. First 2010 simply stated a fact: Fox was the only media voice not acting as a cheerleader for Obama in 2008. You may not like this fact. This may be a fact often repeated by conservatives. But, it’s still a fact.
You liberals seem to get so upset when we defend Fox News with facts. So, you resort to blaming, name calling, and insults. Prove his fact wrong. You cannot. Case closed.
Thank-you, Dr. Elephant for your astute observation. Do you believe everything you read?
If it supports “his” pre-existing narrative, yes.
If it doesn’t, no.
Right…but completely bent over for Bush and his cronies. Puh-lease…at least be honest with your critiques.
The more I listen to some of Steve Jobs comments on politics, the clearer it becomes that the did not understand the real game of it. It sounds like he still thought that Liberal vs. Conservative or Republican vs. Democrat is actually how the government operates and governs.
Nothing is further from the truth. Maybe he was too busy to see game or just didn’t pay attention, or just accepted the media talking points.
The real truth is that the government is a puppet for the elites and corporations run by said elites. Not just the US government, just about ALL governments across the globe. The deeper you look, the more connections you begin to see between governments, businesses, religion and education. The people at the top of those pyramids, and it is NOT the so-called leaders that we see everyday, run the world.
Steve was probably too focused on his inventions to see the bigger picture.
Murdoch knows and is involved the manipulation of humanity all over the planet. The media is in total bed with the Elite. That include the NY Times.
I wish Steve hadn’t wasted a single thought on them.
“The more I listen to some of Steve Jobs comments on politics, the clearer it becomes that the did not understand the real game of it. It sounds like he still thought that Liberal vs. Conservative or Republican vs. Democrat is actually how the government operates and governs.”
Then you got it all wrong, because that’s precisely what he’s not saying. He seemed to have labeled the conservatives as “destructive”, but he wasn’t talking about things like a neo-liberal approach to economy. He was about about pure politics, because the party itself has mutated over the years into… this. Murdoch helped the Tea Party be born, and if that’s not a destructive agent I don’t know what is.
Uh, Sherlock… As a TEA Party participant, I can tell you it was the Democrats in control of Congress along with Obama and their idiotic spending and their shoving healthcare legislation down the throats of the majority of Americans who voiced that they did not want it. THAT was what helped the Tea Party be born!
Try not to revise history. It doesn’t flatter you!
Factually speaking, Republicans are more likely to raise taxes and increase the deficit than are their liberal counterparts. And fwiw, if you Tea Party sycophants had been alive during the time of the original tea party, your politics would have aligned with the British monarchy rather than those of the founding fathers.
Fwiw, if you really want to see where the tea party was born you can catch a glimpse of its founder, Dale Robertson here:
Forget “more likely.” Factually speaking, Obama *did* raise the deficit more in 2 1/2 years than Bush did in 8, and the Dems were in control for the last 2 of that 8, where much of his happened.
Some links for you:
Obama’s current plan to raise taxes: http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/financial-decoder/obama-deficit-plan-raise-taxes-cut-spending/5095/
The deficit with graphs for what Bush vs. Obama did:
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/28/the-truth-about-obamas-budget-deficits-in-pictures/
A look at the Debt over a year ago, where Obama was already at 2/3 of Bush’s increase:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20019931-503544.html
Not that any of this is relevant to the story on this page.
No, I’m saying that the people who run the world are not actually the governments that we see everyday.
The Republican vs. Democrat one playing good cop to the bad cop and vice versa for years all the while promising that they’re going to make a better world for everybody, while raping and and robbing along with banks and corps behind the scenes destroying the world slowly in the process while they get theirs.
I’m saying that the entire governments, the corporations, the religions, and even education are bitches of the elites and has been for hundreds of years.
It looks like Steve never figured that out.
Some would argue that Apple is a destructive force in our society. Destruction is not necessarily a bad thing. It allows for renewal and growth.
I read Fox News. I also read the New Your Times. I consider myself smart enough to digest and dissect information to establish my own opinions.
You are obviously in the minority. I’ve always found fascinating how supposedly “enlightened” conservatives spit out almost verbatim what they see on Fox News, hear on Rush Limbaugh or similar, or read on Red State or other such blogs. That doesn’t seem like independent thinking to me…
BTW, given that Fox News dominates (currently) the political dialog in America and are proud of it, it seems a little weird for “conservatives” to continuously harp on about the “mainstream media” and it’s liberal bias, when in fact the liberal bias in the media disappeared about 20 years ago.
I’ve also found it fascinating how supposedly “enlightened” liberals spit out almost verbatim what they see on MSNBC, hear on Rachel Maddow or similar, or read on Huffington Post, Daily Kos or other such blogs. That doesn’t seem like independent thinking to me…
That you think liberal bias in the mainstream media disappeared 20 years ago is very telling. Any half-objective media consumer can see that there is obvious bias – in both directions – all over the mainstream media.
Still waiting for you to actually refute what I wrote. Nice try, though.
It’s funny how you criticize “independent” thinking, while regurgitating liberal mantra. And your comment about liberal bias shows you either:
1. are completely aware of the ridiculousness of that statement, but propagandize anyway
2. or just emerged after 21 years in a media-deprived bomb shelter
I admit that I am in the minority, for both sides of the isle. Conservative or Liberal, there is a dearth of intelligent people who can think critically or who choose not to think critically. Politics today consists of a small minority of individuals controlling a very large mass of sheeple. It is a sad commentary of our society.
The biggest destruction artists are totalitarian, authoritarian governments who gain that position because they ALWAYS grow until they consume the society they rule over, rather than govern.
Government entities that fail are almost Never shut down, but instead given more of your money to fix themselves. The Dept. of Education from the early 70s has presided over the destruction of the education system in the use & trippling of per student costs. That is not a success.
There is no society on earth which can give up 60-70% of its total productive output to government entities every year and not have a revolution.
The U.S. is already over 50%.
It is easy to blame corporations and individuals with high net worth, when in fact to protect their assets they do what they can to try to protect and grow them. That has been the way since Summarian merchant times and is no different today.
I believe you and your unsupported statistics. 110%.
Sounds like Jobs’ wife has a problem. You’re never going to hear or read a story about a man having to hide knives from a (true/real) conservative woman. Oh, I know this was hyperbole on Jobs’ part, but seriously, recall the vitriol and foaming at the mouth that woman Sarah Spitz with Journolist came out with about wanting to watch Rush Limbaugh die.
Why are liberals nuts?
Good question. You’d think in the 5,000 years the earth has been in existence, they would have figured it out by now.
Funniest comment on MDN today…. Spot on.
🙂
Hmm, I didn’t realize the earth was that old. I thought Obama created it 3 years ago.
LMAO! Thanks.
Sarah Palin threatens to call forth a crusade and spouts other nonsense.
Jobs kids about her wife distrusting conservatives who for for people like Palin.
Thus, liberals are nuts. Your logic is brilliant, good sir.
The problem is us — if we didn’t buy the newspapers and watch the TV shows Fox would change or die…
I came back to MDN just to see if they would put this story up. They did, good for them.
That’s fair and balanced.
The comments are the usual cesspool of trite mud slinging and name calling. That’s why I am out of here!!!!!
(MDN this one isn’t your fault. But the fact that your blog is now little more than this, means you DID loose your first love!)
If TUAW had a way to subscribe to their posts like MDN did, I would stick with them and avoid the political flamethrowing here altogether.
Steve could do no wrong until he challenges Fox News. And of course, some try to reconcile this conflict of him being a genius and speaking ill of Fox News by castigating his wife. She has to be the liberal to blame. After all no intelligent person like Jobs could think such things about Fox. Ideologs! SMH.
It is so amusing to read these comments, as it is clear that almost none of you actually read (or understood) what Jobs said here.
Let me quote again:
…”‘The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society.”
He specifically defined the “axis” as constructive-destructive, and NOT conservative-liberal (or republican-democrat). Nobody here has captured the difference. The essence of his statement is that if Murdock wants a conservative media, that’s fine, but he must be careful that his media does not become destructive, and Jobs believes that is today the case with the Fox empire. There doesn’t necessarily need to be the link between conservative-republican-destructive (or liberal-deomocrat-constructive). Jobs made it very clear that these are NOT automatically linked.
Apparently, the destructive effects of some of the media today has prevented commenters here (many of whom are quite intelligent) to notice the difference.
+100. I was going to post that but was late to the party, glad someone else picked up on this.
Jobs shows his genius yet again, refusing to be pigeon-holed into traditional thinking. And once again, the entrenched misunderstand and flame him for it.
Yep. I missed you post before I typed mine below. You hit the nail on the head here, I’m afraid. I’m a conservative who would rather watch liberal (but non-destructive) media than Fox News, where I more often appreciate the content but can’t stomach the delivery method.
FoxNews is only destructive to the liberal agenda which is why liberals react to strongly to it. Fox does not allow personal hit jobs like the liberal media allows.
Most of the nastiness in our national political discourse comes from the left. The media tried to cover the alleged used of the “n” word once at a Tea Party rally yet they have barely covered the violence, drugs, sex, and other problems by the Occupy silliness.
At least when Glen Beck held his rally, the Tea Partiers cleaned up their garbage and left the place almost spotless. When Jon Stewart held his rally, there was a huge mess to clean up.
Now tell me who is really more destructive? The law abiding citizens who watch FoxNews or the mobs-that-are-getting-out-of-control liberals in the Occupy movement so loved by the left?
Then I guess you missed the news story that when Mayor Bloomberg tried to evict the Occupy Wall Street protestors to let cleaning crews in, the immediate response from the protestors was “We’ll clean it up ourselves!”
Well put, theLedger. It’s ironic that the left claims no media biased, when the coverage of the Tea Party vs Occupy groups is so clearly different.
In fairness, Fox spins the Tea Party in a positive light while pointing out flaws in OWS. But, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, ETC, do the opposite. Both are biased.
Wow?! Steve Jobs just another ‘former’ Liberal bashing Fox News?
Yep! No bias their! Mr. NYT helper wether they want it or not.
In other news ‘Water is wet’…
No Jobs, the axis of today is not constructive and destructive. Rather it is what bilge the other networks are putting forth versus what Fox is spewing. So Fox is the 1% ‘ers going against the 99 % of Liberal media and the way they shape the stories they feed mind numb government educated morons.
Think Different Steve? Wasn’t that what you stressed?!!!
Also, as a good Liberal, will your wife Lorraine be donating to the US government, which is cash strapped, all but $999,999.00 (don’t want to make it a million dollars otherwise she’ll be lumped in with the greedy millionaires and billionaires Obama talks about) that you left her and the family?
What an idiot!
Right on, Steve. I couldn’t agree more.
The distinction between destructive and constructive is a good one and can apply to both liberals and conservatives under some conditions. I felt George Bush was assailed in way destructive to a healthy dialog and I see even worse in regards to President Obama. It is the approach taken to disagreeing and the lack of any attempt at a middle ground in the narrative that is so destructive, not a particular political position.
I’m of a very conservative background, and have to agree with Jobs here.
Most of the comments here are right, too – on both sides of the argument. If you look at what Jobs said, it is that the division of conservative vs. liberal isn’t the problem. But the folks on Fox News turn me off not with their message but the way they deliver it. It is downright hateful at times, and so it has no place in my home.
Rush? Don’t get me started. Okay, I’m started – I liked him for a while. The message was usually dead on. But as his popularity grew alongside that of Fox News, he took on the same “damn the liberals” approach that isn’t helpful in any way.
So in this particular argument, save the few of my fellow conservatives who see the argument for what it really is, I have to side with the liberals, just because they are anti-Fox News.
As someone from outside the US, and reading the comments – in most comments it is one Idiot calling another Idiot an Idiot … can’t you guys simply agree that you’re ALL Idiots?
There. Problem solved.
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And MSNBC is what? – A bastion of editorial excellence with the likes of Ed Schultz and the other avowed Socialists?
Steve Jobs…. RIGHT AGAIN!
Fox News – We Deceive. You Believe.™
Funny thing about Fox news…. This station is the ONLY station on TV where a conservative can hear opinion pieces with a conservative’s point of view. THE ONLY STATION. Liberals can turn to ANY other TV news/opinion station to hear their point of view. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and of course the state sponsored PBS. Plus Hollywood. And yet liberals still harp about that one lone station that has a conservative bent.
And therein lies the rub: Conservatives tend to be happiest when a simple and single source tells them what to think.
Boo-yah!
“Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society.”
Considering Jobs’ constructive-destructive axis, is anyone willing to go on the record and state that they consider Fox News a constructive force?
Glad Jobs is dead. He is the destructive one. Good riddance.
He is a first class lying ass dog. Lied about responsibility for a kid born out of wedlock. Lied about being sterile (check Wikipedia). Lied about options backdating. Used one of the most destructive drugs of the 70s, LSD, bragged about it (he helped finance pushers who killed thousands).
Like a asswipe crybaby, said the reason for doing the book was to explain things to his kids cause daddy was never around. Coward, yellow belly lib.
Then, instead of getting life saving treatment, if nothing else to live for his family, to live for his company, to live for his friends, he was the baby, self centered coward that couldn’t handle surgery until he could, then he got it in spades.
Now, he says Fox is destructive. My ass, he was destructive. The worst father you could ever want, and a pathological liar to the core.
What a pathetic baby. Good fun**** riddance.
X=typical Fox viewer, and a prime example of the destructive attitude Jobs was referring to
I’ve read every post thus far (and commented on a few). What stands out most to me is that there’s tremendous polarity between the left and right.
However, there is no longer mass defense of Mr. Obama. No longer do we hold him up as our savior. Finally, the Bush bashing and Obama love-fest has ceased. It took almost three years, but finally even liberals are finding it increasingly difficult to defend the man who currently (attempts) to lead our country.
(The irony of course is that had the liberal media actually vetted Obama out prior to the election, most of this would not come as a surprise.)
Regardless of the news channel you watch, it seems both liberals and conservatives can finally agree that this president has brought more despair and destruction to our country, our workforce, our businesses, and our health than we thought possible. He did go after Bin Laden, and let’s give him props for that. But, otherwise, his ability to lead our country has been abysmal.
I’ll add this….
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45030431/ns/us_news-life/#.Tqg-B2BYxJE
Notice how MSNBC focuses on the police action rather than the actions of the OWS protestors. There’s no mention of the OWS crowd being rowdy, causing disturbance, trespassing, rioting, etc. The OWS crowd is portrayed as little angels who are ripped apart by mean angry cops.
Still think there’s no liberal biased in mainstream media (save Fox)?
Did you even read the article? It clearly states that the protesters in Oakland were throwing bottles and rocks at the police. What do you mean that there was no mention of a disturbance? They used words repeatedly like “skirmish” and “scuffle”. I don’t see anyone being portrayed as “angels”.
MSNBC is far from an unbiased source, but what you’re saying about the posted article isn’t even true. It’s hard to try to prove a point when you won’t even bother to read the article.
“Did you even read the article?”
Come on, he’s a Fox News acolyte. He’s trained to ignore reality and make shit up.
It funny that when Jobs was telling Obama that he was a one term president, the reasons he gave him were pretty much those you hear on Fox News.
It’s about time you saw that your President is hamstrung and always has been. The position is purely symbolic – good for starting wars and that’s about it.
America is going to he’ll in a handbasket.