We’d like to express sympathy for and solidarity with News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, who – based on last night’s news bulletins – appears to currently be undergoing the sort of treatment his media empire usually doles out to others.
Leave Rupert Alone!
It’s uncomfortable to watch.
Look, he’s a frail old man. He withdrew his BSkyB bid, what more do you want? All he’s got left is massive media and political power in the US and Australia that his company shamelessly wields in its own interests. Stop picking on him.
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LOL.
“All he’s got left is massive media and political power in the US …”and that is looking increasingly shaky. If there is evidence found that the 9/11 victims had their voicemail hacked, it’ll be curtains.
Nah, keep picking on him. I’m loving it! Anyway, Rupert ‘frail’? Have you seen his mother? He’s just a young tacker. So go hard!
A note of caution. To read some commentators you’d think Emperor Rupert had just been convicted of paedophilia. But he’s a {EDIT} old man who knows where {EDIT: we understand the metaphor, but we can’t publish words that literally suggest anyone is aware of the location of buried bodies}. He’ll bide his time and strike back when it suits him. Unless Wikileaks can somehow finish him off.
Uncomfortable?
To quote Norm Gallagher, it couldn’t happen to a nicer pack of arseholes.
Big suckhole push in Caroline Overington’s daft Media Diary blog.
“Hartigan also lets critics of the local operation have it:
“Some media outlets, certain commentators and some politicians have attempted to connect
the behaviour in the UK with News Limited’s conduct in Australia. This is offensive and
wrong. “
Ooh! A chinese burn! Oww, ow, John, stop, you’re hurting!! *sob*
Wow, that told them, eh, readers!
Look! Over there! No really….it’s the Lefty ABC that’s to blame, not Rupert….really.
Normally I never get pleasure from other people’s grief, but given New Limited’s recent criminal activities, cover ups, ridiculous carbon tax bias, regular race baiting, and salary cap rorts, I do love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
I would hate to add to the ruthless old man’s suffering but there are reports that the boycott Murdoch media campaign is doing rather well:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8630639/Phone-hacking-Twitter-campaign-calls-for-News-Corp-boycott.html
He did? When? I haven’t read that and would be VERY happy to hear it from an official source!
I hope the whole show comes crumbling down. Justice.
OK found a reference… and I am indeed cheering
News Corp ditches BSkyB bid
I know you should’t enjoy someone else’s troubles, but why do I have this tune stuck in my head …….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFvDFTiHQfU
The cause of Rupert’s biggest looming problem may be his own words.
When The Guardian broke the story of generous payments by News to the first victims of phone spying to litigate, Mr Murdoch denied it.
“If that had happened, I would know about it,” Mr Murdoch told Bloomberg.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aDLr.b2RsSBc
WOnder how long before his minions run the line the Catholic bsihop tried re paedophile cover up by Ratzinger when he was CEO of the Inquisition “they are picking on the weakest person least able to defend himself..”.
Oh this is so rich…seriously? from one of the snarkiest, pettiest most pathetic mouthpieces from News Ltd stable..ok so she’s just Miranda Devine with training wheels..Miranda is the complete essence of b@tshit crazy..like Ann Coulter the stuff she writes is so ridiculous and silly that it’s hard to believe it’s not just a bad vaudeville act put on to profit off right wing rage.
Green tracksuits? Seems only the true rodents like to parade on camera in them.*
Jerry Seinfeld (The Pilot, Part 1): You know the message you’re sending out to the world with these sweat pants? You’re telling the world: “I give up. I can’t compete in normal society. I’m miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.”
*Athletic types excluded
Watch out Harto. Grog is Tweeting that Rebekah Brooks may be transferred to a senior role in Murdoch’s Australian operations.
“Grog is Tweeting that Rebekah Brooks may be transferred to a senior role in Murdoch’s Australian operations”
We still have an extradition treaty with the UK, don’t we, should it prove necessary?
Actually that tweet is from Michael Fullilove (historian and foreign policy analyst at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia and the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC)
@mfullilove Michael Fullilove London Telegraph speculates that Rebekah Brooks may quit News Intl and take over a News Ltd property in Australia: http://t.co/k1WdI7N
“If that had happened, I would know about it,” Mr Murdoch told Bloomberg.
OOOOHH that’s gotta hurt.
Oh Great! So we’re going to have her running the Gold Coast Bulletin?
Gillard at the circle-jerk aka Press Club just gave some advice to the media (kudos Mark Riley for asking):
SHV @22 – love it! That quote should be in every single newsroom across the country, nay the world.
I’d be staggered if Brooks was to take over a News Ltd job here — I think even Murdoch would balk at that given the scandal (and potential charges), that are currently surrounding her.
Please please please let the closing of newscorp publications spread across the planet. Let the contagion spread like the plague.
Brooks may possibly be guilty of a crime in her editorship of NotW and The Sun during the periods when the alleged hackings were perpetrated. It would be premature to assume she could waltz in here without first satisfying Immigration that she is a fit and proper person to be allowed a visa.
The real question is would Gillard and Abbott have the balls to complain?
But with Uncle Rupert in her corner. I posted on an American blog yesterday that Aussie leaders may be even more sycophantic to Murdoch than the UK leaders, I also made the point that in the scheme of things Aussie leaders don’t matter.
Allowing Brooks is installed as head of News Ltd., then what? Are we supposed to have not noticed what she’s been in vovvled in the UK? Or will this be the pinnacle of the ABC/Left conspiracy against News Ltd, meme if our non-Murdoch media dares to criticise her?
I doubt that the English police would be allowing Ms Brooks to leave the UK just at the moment Rob, and if it turns out that she is charged and found guilty of criminal activities, we have laws concerning allowing convicted felons into the country that I reckon even Murdoch would have trouble circumventing — particularly if he was trying to get that person a high end position in our media.
Besides, with any luck he might be too preoccupied with trying to keep his son out of jail to be bothered about getting Ms Brooks into Australia
Holden, every single day the Herald Sun prints rubbish yet it’s the best selling paper in the land, every single day the trollumnist spouts hate and bullshit yet it’s the most popular blog in the land. So most of us just don’t notice or don’t care. For that matter if you relied on the Herald Sun for your news then you wouldn’t even be aware of the scandal.
This is why cross media ownership laws are good (and compulsory voting not so good considering the majority of us rely on bullshit dressed up as news)
GaviM, Privacy laws are very weak in the UK and what have we all learned from this scandal? That the police and politicians are up to their necks in it too. Anyway, lets assume there are no charges my original contention was what would Gillard and Abbott have to say if Murdoch said she’s coming to head up News Ltd? Not a lot I’d wager. Murdoch has enjoyed massive access to UK and Aussie pollies, the Aussies make appointments to go and see him!!!! Like I say, they’re sycophants but very soon they’ll have an opportunity to prove me wrong. I want to be proven wrong in this instance.
We can hope, he’s definitely scrambling to save his empire. I’m experiencing schadenfreude.
‘Our Tones’ is a real whiz with the complaining, but this would be once instance where he’d do as his master Rupes advises – after all, you can’t go turning on your #1 fanclub.
“my original contention was what would Gillard and Abbott have to say if Murdoch said she’s coming to head up News Ltd? Not a lot I’d wager.”
I hear you — perhaps we could appeal to the base driver of all pollies — votes — and hope that this scandal will give our pollies the message that perhaps doing the right thing and standing up to Murdoch and his methods might actually increase their standing with the electorate…
I know — I’m dreaming
Should Rupert Murdoch be jailed, asks Geoffrey Robertson in today’s Age
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/unearthing-truth-will-take-a-judge-20110713-1hdxn.html
Phil M @ 25:
Please please please let the closing of newscorp publications spread across the planet. Let the contagion spread like the plague.
It’s bloody tempting to agree with this sentiment, but if this did happen, we’d have an even less balanced print media than we have at present. For this reason, I don’t want to see NewsCorp fold, but it definitely needs to be told to pull its head in. We need a range of views from a number of media outlets, and a Fairfax-only country would not be great.
Just Shaking my Spear Hear…
From the ongoing play we see around us,
MAX WEALTH…
A big room.
Along the walls, lots of strange occult looking books.
High Jovial Confabulation abounds.
-
Enter the three for witchery & bitchery.
Tony Abbnot. Thrice the bovine skat cats’ hath clawed.
ABC. Thrice and once the group mind thawed. ABC
Mal comm. Then Turn Bull cries, “‘My horde, ‘My horde.”
Abbnot. Round about the Bovine skat flows;
In the poison’d thoughts, we throw!
For I forsake heart, Just cold, cold stone
Days and nights, our spewed spell must run.
Being in opposition, we can be cruel kids, what fun.
Like the Private school bullies,
the race of birthright we all know!!!
ALL. Double, double, toil and trouble;
May Brains burn and may brains bubble.
ABC
Flow it round just like Nechushtan the snake,
In the beta through epsilon brains, boil and bake;
Except the tail and mouth in each ear, so wisdom doesn’t equate.
Like wool over their eyes, our snake tongue lies,
Our magic of mind, they’ll think empowerment tries.
To give them illusory democracy,
For a charm of powerful trouble, hypocrisy.
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Brains now boil and brains now bubble.
Mal comm
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf
Oh my scapegoat Tony I bow to thee,
And ABC for this insanity,
Between you two we create a “blaspheming Jew”,
Gall’s the mobs and plants like wood yew
Sliver’d in the minds eclipse,
Noise of division, on the populace lips.
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver’d by a crab,
Tony such witchery of bitchery, Mate your not bad.
Between you too, you put such mould on,
For the ingredients of our mental cauldron.
ALL. Double, double, toil and trouble;
Brains must boil so brains make trouble.
ABC. Cool it with their baboon blood,
Go-Spell it out for them, keep it firm and “good”.
Enter “Miasma-Dock” to the other three Witches.
Miasma –Dock
O, well done! I command your plans,
And all our schoolies, Manifold gains.
So long as they think this insane, sane
We become the some for their, misdirected pain,
Enchanting all that you, together we control this game.
Music and a song, “TOOL, 10.000 days, RIGHT IN TWO.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLjrD-oXkhA
Hecate retires.
ABC, so together we must Spell it out,
Collectively feed their indignant shouts
Then Open, locks,
When this indignation knocks!
Stephen: Bravo!
Author! Author!
No wucking furries about Wade/Brooks coming to work here, Mudorc’s chief of minions just told 7.30 so. And none of the fading Sun King’s hacks tell porkies, do they…?
“Don’t write crap. It can’t be that hard.”
He he he.
Short, brutal, and totally justified.
Rupert Murdoch has attacked Gordon Brown in a fierce defence of News Corporation’s handling of the phone hacking scandal. Murdoch accused British MPs of lying about allegations of corrupt practices at his newspapers.
In his first interview about the crisis that has engulfed his media empire, Murdoch said some MPs’ comments on the scandal were “total lies” and singled out Brown for criticism over the former prime minister’s accusation that News International was guilty of “law-breaking on an industrial scale”.
The media baron said Brown “got it entirely wrong” when he alleged that Murdoch’s British papers had used “known criminals” to get access to his personal information when Labour was in power.
“The Browns were always friends of ours” until the Sun withdrew its support for Labour before the last general election, he told the Wall Street Journal, his flagship US paper.
Poor old Rupert. Just when he thought he had everybody by the balls, turns out he didn’t.
Where’s me nano-violin? I feel a sympathy symphony coming on.
Oh, hang on… No I don’t.
Did he really think that any politician who dined with him was doing so just as his friend? Or vice versa, that he was inviting them to dine just for purely social reasons, with no strings attached? Gimme a break. Nobody is buying that, pal.
I predict there will be a rash of large donations and endowments to worthy causes from the Murdochs, to try to salvage the damaged brand, and sugar coat Rupert’s place in history, which is rapidly approaching.
Now the poor old coot is getting sued for billions in the US:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59794974/News-Corp-Shareholder-Suit
Fry and Laurie on Rupert Murdoch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1aZcsY-O8Q&feature=youtu.be