Murdoch's news-tainment machine is soulless & evil

But is it evil enough that people will care?

The phone tapping/hacking scandal should be enough but it seems that it isn't. However, in at least one tragic and horrific case Murdoch's machine may have gone too far, meaning, actually done something so heinous that people could notice.

While doubtless there will be those who claim that using this case to hobble Murdoch is cynically opportunistic it is no more opportunistic than using someone's crime as a reason to put them in jail.

Is this the case than can cut at the root of the rot in the "news" industry?

I saw this on the news and it's so vile....i just have no words.

these people need to be shot in the head and left for dead

Lets face it, when you're as rich and powerful as the Murdochs, it's really the only sort of justice they'll ever likely receive.

'twas a guilty pleasure indeed, clicking "like" on this. Of course, I'm counting on that fact that if such a thing did happen there would be far too many much better suspects to investigate before coming to harass peons like myself.

this is the great thing about being anonymous


I'll get busy wishing cancer on that bastard......it couldn't hurt, right LOL

someone needs to hack murdoch's phone........who knows? maybe we'll find pictures of him doing the pee pee dance and it will get posted on twitter

can this be a joke?
Murdoch stuns critics, shuts down scandal-hit paper

wow. Just cutting it off, hoping the gangrene won't spread. Smart and brutal. Hope it doesn't work.

me too........while no one is going to miss that garbage "newspaper", the cancer (murdoch) still exists.
it time we get out the big knife

Ugh. Look what else comes out... from bribing police to murder and obstruction of justice. Sounds like a right little criminal enterprise. I wander what kind of stuff they have on politicians. Any compromising photographs? Compromising telephone messages?

All is still up in the air. The contagion may yet move around in strange and perplexing ways.

Ex-Cameron aide arrested in UK hacking scandal

i do hope more heads will roll

Dummies and puppets representing Prime Minister David Cameron (L) and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt (R) are held aloft by Rupert Murdoch at the launch of the campaign group Hacked off near Parliament on July 6, 2011 in London, England. The Prime Minister has promised that there will be a public inquiry into phone hacking carried out by journalists at The News of the World newspaper.

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http://www.politicususa.com/en/murdoch-fcc

crossing my fingers

Nice.

I was just reading that sewage continues to seep from the cracks at News International and that the house is built on sand and the foundations are shifting

Murdoch may lose substantial political power and that would be no bad thing. He choses British Prime Ministers, Canadian Prime Ministers, Australian Prime Ministers and American Presidents.

There is even talk of getting the Us to prosecute Murdoch under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which could certainly help in the de-licensing of Murdoch. That would be amazing.

Fisk on Murdoch

Oh boy, dammit, yes - it looks like Murdoch's engine is on fire and he's going down - spiralling to the ground and I just hope his canopy sticks.

Telegraph's live blog

Including such gems as:

Yes, that says Gordon Brown's bank info and the medical records of his son were hacked. And yes, it says it was by other Murdoch papers than News of the World. It's his whole dirty business - half propaganda machine, half spy agency. The strings lead right from the politicians to the puppeteer.

I'd love to see this TV deal evaporate and even have Murdoch sued in the US and lose licenses there too. Doubtless he will fight, he is ruthless and headstrong but he may have received a mortal wound and at his age he may just not have it in him.

I don't want to jink's this but I REALLY want to start doing the Happy Dance