Murdoch's world in crisis

Source: The Age (Melbourne)

Financial damage from the scandal has spilled over from the Sunday tabloid and analysts say the company's entire British newspaper group is at risk.
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Up to 4000 people had been targeted for hacking by the paper's former private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, police said. They are also investigating documents indicating the paper spent £100,000 in payments to five police officers



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over and over again

and I mean that sincerely.

What did the poor dingos ever do to you? :rofl:

or at the worst make them die of food poisoning.

bad taste in their mouths

That's what I'm remembering.

I would guess his American News Empire is engaging in the same tactics as his British Empire. Now, the question is will someone find the proof?

Good one! :rofl:

They'll probably elect him to congress here or give him a Supreme Court Justice seat, or appoint him to the President's cabinet. :eyes:

;)

i am old enough to remember other scandals... notably Watergate, this Murdock thing kind of reminds of that... Nixon won in 72 by a landslide (i worked for the Dem's that year), and this was after catching the watergate burglars... at the time they were trying do dismiss it as a "3rd rate burglary attempt".. but the scandal drip, drip, dripped ever widening..

late in 73 when Nixon Fired the independent prosecutor (Archibald Cox), the nature of the scandal changed one ultimately Nixon could not survive... this series of events in Britain, may very well be the "Saturday Night Massacre" moment for news corp. et el...

He owns most of the press and the majority of the remainder is owned by other sympathetic neocons. Our government sure isn't about to do it. Half of them are "in bed with" Murdoch and the rest are too afraid that Bill ORielly might call them "pinheads."

Back during the Watergate era we still had an independent press and at least a semblance of a legitimate two party system.

I don't ever see him being brought to justice here even if a smoking gun was hand delivered to the Justice Department.

I think IMHO we are going to have to depend on the Brits and just pray like hell they don't drop the ball.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

If the Murdoch empire goes down there are others that will profit from its fall.

I don't expect he will be shown much mercy by his fellow media sharks once there is blood in the water.

I would love to see him taken down and all his cohorts with him.

i am old enough to remember other scandals... notably Watergate,

I remember that, too, and although I was very young, I was still old enough to wonder what was it going to take to get rid of Nixon.


I like your reminder that they are so often their own undoing. It need not be a new move or action Murdoch takes; in fact, it will probably be something Murdoch set in motion some time ago that will lead to his spectacular crash.


Cher

a tiny shining ray of hope, one that I only wish will get lighter and brighter.

Not to mix metaphors or get hopes up to high but I'd love for the whole stack of cards to just start tumbling down.

managers to produce, produce, produce.

I'd DEARLY LOVE to see that bastard get his comeuppance.

:puke:

If you were the government, it would have been legal!

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It was the threat of personal attack by the NI tabloids like the NOTW that intimidated a whole generation of British politicians and was the reason the current government was expected to wave through the NewsCorp takeover of the hugely profitable BSkyB without referral to the Monopolies and Mergers regulator.

He's protecting Rebekah Brooks, and she's every bit responsible for what happened as those directly involved. He closed down News of the World, which at first glance is a big move, but then I read this from the article: 'The closure of the paper was greeted by politicians and phone-hack victims as a cynical ploy to protect Mr Murdoch's bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB'. I doubt he feels the slightest bit of revulsion over what was done by News of the World, and all he's interested in is making a bigger profit. I wish it would lead to a collapse of his media empire, but I suspect it won't...

Anyway, one thing to thanks News of the World for was inspiring an awesome song by the Jam...adios News of the World...

News of the World - The Jam

And yet she stays in her job (offered her resignation but was refused) whilst innocent NotW workers who had nothing to do with the hacking get laid off. It is a strange form of justice Murdoch offers, where the innocent are punished and the guilty go free.

As mentioned above illegal wiretaps, bugging, hacking, bribing police officers were not just a means of unearthing some juicy tabloid stories but part of the corporations modus operandi for intimidating opponents, gaining political influence and advancing Murdochs business interests. In fact the activity looks not dissimilar from old fashioned racketeering. Putting a stop to these activities would not just be inconvenient to Murdoch it would undermine his entire business model in the UK.

Rupert has moved the internal cleanup work to New York under Joel Kline (yes, *that* Joel Kline). Rupert has just flown to the UK to try to address the issue and keep NewsIntl efforts to take full control of BSkyB (biggest broadcaster in UK, I believe) - and while earlier this week that was still nodded on as full steam ahead... it is now announced a slow down in the decision pending current investigations.

PM Cameron who hired (now arrested and out on bail) former top editor Coulson as his spokesman gave a pretty harsh speech to cover his butt, in which signaled (new) independence including that the investigation should go as high as it needs to go.

The Church of England has sent Murdoch a scathing letter that in essence threatens that official holdings may be divested (not so big on its face, however would likely lead to a rash of individual investors following suit) - and this is not just of News International (Murdoch's UK empire) but of NewsCorp (the big enchilada).

Requests to extend the investigations have been made to cross borders into Scotland (yesterday) and into Ireland (today.)

Oh yea, and the issues now are about police bribery, deletion of millions of email (big coverup), and corruption of power in the sense of political figures starting to talk out about the fear (per political words and actions) based on the brutal media response controlled by the Murdoch machine.

I am sure there is a whole lot more that I have missed on the most recent recap. It is one of those points in time where a scandal that starts as one thing and moves exceptionally slowly - suddenly explodes into a vast number of pieces all moving so fast that even the most powerful and corrupt organization can not control it all.

Given the undue influence on political discourse in this country due to the vast amounts of money and noise time given through the murdoch machine to radical right propaganda - this unraveling is quite a story to follow at the moment.

for the world to NOT make it fail.

for any of his actions will be the day I boil and eat my underwear with a side of fava beans and a nice Chianti.

As usual, this will be found to be the work of "a few bad apples", who will all be rewarded handsomely for taking the fall and getting their hands slapped so that the rest of us can all "move on".

Now on a search for bad news about Olbermann or MSNBC.