Murdoch Scandal. How obscenely pleasurable it is to type (and read) those two words back to back. Not since Watergate has a man so satisfyingly been shoved face to face with his self-created destiny. And who, finally, brought down this journalistic thug? One Milly Dowler, a murdered teenage girl just like all the countless other ones he built his craven career exploiting. What did Rupert know and when did he know it is an irrelevant question here, just as it was, on a certain level, with Richard Nixon. The tone is set from the top.
The Murdoch ethos has never understood that there really are some boundaries you can't cross. Throw in the failure of the sycophantic media to seriously call him on any of his previous egregiousness -- and to accord him an unearned respectability, rather than the pariahdom that his affronts to decency so clearly deserved -- and it was inevitable that he would eventually go too far and repulse the masses beyond the point of redemption.
Even in this era of vanishing standards, there are still some things that are just not done by people with any pretense of propriety. Hacking into a murdered girl's voicemail -- and, in the process, giving her parents false hope that she was still alive -- turns out to be one of them. Who could have known?
So don't fret about distractions like whether or not Murdoch retains his title or position at News Corp. Here's all that matters: this amoral grotesquerie is going to be in the lead of his obituary. Disgrace is his true legacy. This is karmic retribution on a cosmic scale. As such, I suggest that the official media title for this long overdue - but all the more rewarding for its delay -- blast of schadenfreudal bliss be known from this day forward as: KARMAGEDDON!
If there's a better name for the Murdoch Scandal, by all means please post it below.
No chance of gatekeeping and control of that anymore. Murdoch used to rant about Google and even predicted the end of the internet.
http://socratesbooks.blogspot.com/2011/06/bye-bye-media-conflict-google-net-and.html
That's Karma nearly worthy of Slansky's remarks.
As he said the paper was 1% of his corporation - 1%. His only need is to restore shareholder confidence who are also only interested in the same as he is - capital gain - for them, whatever it takes, thank you.
Meanwhile their energy is only interested in financial gain - how they get it justifies the means in their eyes. A little hand wringing and a sorry, will shut the minions up and they will move on, caught but not out.
However the energy of change is moving rapidly around the world now and while Murdoch and his like, will most likely retire on their treacherous wealth, the insidious tendrils of their web will ensnare those who live from it and I am sure their suffering will be self imposed - even with those who gained from what they think is clever and cunning business.
I have my suspicions that the pie thrower is also on Murdoch's payroll. Convenient that his wife has super-fast reflects and managed to divert public opinion into something favorable for the Murdoch's. Just watching the footage made me wonder, "Do they really think we're buying this?" China certainly is. It's dispicable.
Any Murdoch questions?
The karma is inherent to Murdoch but look at Berlusconi with his ties to P2 lodge, and the fake yellowcake incident. On Tony Blair's watch the self-suicide of a prominent British nuclear watchdog who did not buy into nuclear storytelling about Iraq... Colin Powell and his source Curveball who was a total fabrication. Murdoch's mighty Wurlitzer buzzed it out to the max. But its much bigger than Murdoch and it all needs a Last Hurrah. Unfortunately, the managed sub-communities of foreign policy social media preclude a real populist conversation. When Murdoch was an apprentice at all this, there was Robert Maxwell, and Mad Max got vilified. But he helped in the Cold War and every Mossad chief showed up at his funeral. A global conversation is needed to revive a modicum of public trust in electonic and print media.
At first I felt guilty about feeling such schadenfreude, but then I asked, Why? The man deserves everything he gets. And his henchmen (and henchwoman!) as well.
http://graciouslivingdaybyday.com/
Ideologies like Slanksy would be more respectable if they would simply say "I'm a lefitst, Murdoch is a conservative, I dont like him so I'm happy that he is in trouble because I prefer my extremists to his." That would be an honest opinion. But this article parades as commentary when its really just about Slanksy's emotions.
Even Tina Brown, whose experiences vastly exceeds Slansky's whose husband was fired by Murdoch, says that he made immense contributions to British journalism.
Success breeds envy, we are watching a delirious envy orgy. Murdoch will have the last laugh, just watch.
Tina Brown actually does claim that Rupert had knowledge of what was going on at News Of The World. So, your contention that, "...nobody claims Murdoch was a party, or even had any knowledge." is false. Just read the below paragraph...
"I have to beg to differ. You remember the gangster who pretended to be nuts and used to walk around in his bedroom slippers? I felt with Rupert it was as he was, seeming to be this out of it guy who is now removed from his empire. He is utterly hands on, I don’t think to the point where he would listen to the detail of phone hacking. He wouldn’t need to or particularly want to.
When he talked about how he phones the editor of News of the World on Saturday night and asked if he ever asked about the $600,000 payoff, he said no, didn’t ask about that, he would absolutely know about that. When he said ‘what’s doing?’ he would say what’s in the paper the next day. The second question would always be how did you get it? He likes process."
Click the link...http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tina-brown-likens-rupert-murduch-to-gangster-who-pretended-to-be-nuts/
http://www.thebrandwash.com/2011/07/17/carmageddon-–-conjuring-hell-works/