After Rupert Murdoch’s phone hacking scandal in the UK, spun out of control, he followed typical right wing logic, he closed the paper, costing hundreds of journalists and workers their jobs, to deflect the scandal and save the job of one corporate criminal. It isn’t working and, although it appears limited to the UK, there is actually a US connection too important to ignore.
The News Corporation’s decision to shut down the British tabloid The News of the World on Thursday did little to silence the growing uproar over revelations that the newspaper had hacked into the voice mails of private citizens.
In fact, it may have only fueled the outrage.
An outpouring of suspicion and condemnation came from all directions on Thursday, and was directed chiefly at the News Corporation’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, a figure as powerful as he is polarizing.
The British media establishment, Facebook and Twitter users and even Mr. Murdoch’s own employees questioned his move. Some said it was a ploy to salvage government approval of the News Corporation’s potentially lucrative controlling stake in the satellite company British Sky Broadcasting, or BSkyB. Others saw it as merely a rebranding.
There are already indications that The News of the World may be reconstituted in some form. People with ties to the company said Thursday that the News Corporation had for some time been examining whether to start a Sunday edition for its other British tabloid, The Sun… [emphasis added]
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If the UK allows Murdoch to take over BSkyB, they are crazy!
Keith Olbermann provided great coverage of this on Countdown.
Ed Schultz interviews Eric Boelert.
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And there it is. The man who was overseeing the criminal activity, who subsequently engineered the cover-up and lied to Parliament is Les Hinton. Les Hinton is now the Publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
Republican policy is to concentrate America’s information sources in as few hands as possible. Those belonging to Rupert Murdock do not even deserve the Republican Ministry of propaganda, Faux Noise, let alone the WSJ.
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I hope Murdoch, that woman, his kids and the entire empire go down for this – I just took a look at their stock chart for today and it’s already down a $1 for a $17.50 stock. I just shorted them for 200 shares. Bwahahahaha! 😈
May you make a small (or better yet, large) fortune.
Is this the best news in the world today or what?
He’s going down this time.
We can hope.
Though it is kinda fun to see Murdoch in trouble. 😈
I’m not holding my breath on this one. (that he’ll go away soon) 👿
Double ditto.
It’s about time. He got run out of England for his lies.
Hate to tell you, but he has been living in Idaho with the other Nazis.
He is absolute slime , deserves to be washed into the sewer with the rest of the offal ; However the innocent people who worked for that paper do not deserve to be thrown out of jobs to try and save his worthless hide–
He will come out just fine – It’s satisfying to see him squirm tho– Money is power—so I don’t see long term damage to Murdochs bottom line—-I can however hope ; His reputation ? No harm there , lol– it was already in the basement.
He cares only about money and power.
I wish our government would shut down Fox “News” for being the subversive and disloyal farce that it is!
Exactly! 👿
At least make them post a disclaimer:
Warning: The Psychiatrist General has determined that Faux Noise is hazardous to your brain.
You gotta love that British humor in the London Times banner headline marking the demise – and upcoming criminal indictments – of Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid:
HehHeh! 😈
😀
Isn’t there a very recognizable process here — big scandal, thousands of low-level employees thrown under the bus, government inquiries, little or no regulatory change, and the ACTUAL perpetrators walk away unscathed (Abu Grab, Mai Lai, 2008 financial collapse, etc.)?
My one hope is that this rockets directly to Mr. Murdoch, who after all created the corporate culture that nurtured and demanded this activity, and in the process shutters Fox Nooze.
Mine as well, but with few expectations.
Yes, prosecute everyone they can, and fine the expletive deleted Murdock to the tune of 1 billion dollars
Welcome Doc. 🙂
Why so little?