upert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and Fox TV is to the media business what Ray Kroc, McDonalds founder, was to the restaurant biz: A purveyor of mental junk food. We in the news business fail, much as the restaurant business did for years, because we chase quick profit and fail to show you the nutritious news to feed your mind and preserve our freedom.

Murdoch and his lap dog, the political pit bull Roger Ailes, president over at Fox News, win largely because we who publish in the rest of the media lose, are lost, economically, intellectually, and socially adrift.