TMZ planning any coverage of Rupert?

Murdoch’s post mortems have already begun to appear. Let’s hope they are not
premature. It also appears that a lot of journalists with old axes to grind are
coming out to speak their peace. A guy like Rupert has made many enemies along
the way.

So what will happen if FOX shrivels up? Will there be a buyer who, seeing a good
profit making formula there, will keep the same format? That would be too bad,
but not really surprising. One good sign, though, is that others in the game, TV
news and the like, may become a little more aggressive regarding the FOX
hoodwink. Yes, Rupert has p’od many along the way.

You were looking at the manifestation of the arrogance of power in human form, Rupert Murdoch, a man able to influence and subvert elected ‘democracies’ just by the tacit threat to withdraw support unless certain criteria were met, and by these same craven Governments allowing News International the ability to own and manipulate our “free” press and media.
It would be nice, one fine day, to actually have a free press in our Countries, owned by the general public and overseen by an elected board made up of rank and file members of the public.
This is what I would consider to be approaching something akin to a truly free media for our general consumption of unbiased news.
Anyone still buying into News International products and services is just condoning the indefensible.

I met Mr. Felker at a party in L.A. years ago.  He was an impressive guy.  I rather worshiped his ideas about periodicals.  Murdoch is the exact opposite, a scoundrel who gives journalism a bad name.  While this scandal may not put the old Aussie pirate himself in jeopardy (he has the pay off paid off), at least I can tell my oncologist he should turn the waiting room TV sets to CNN.

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Breaking News Alert: Dow Jones CEO resigns over U.K. hacking scandal
July 15, 2011 4:53:45 PM
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Les Hinton, the chief executive of Dow Jones & Co., has resigned, becoming the latest News Corp. executive casualty in the phone-hacking and bribery scandal in Britain.
Dow Jones.  Now that IS close to home.  When fresh fish are tossed on the grill at the Sunday Barbie , all the little worms and mites that have been living in up-scale bug condos smell the smoke and know the fire will soon follow, so it’s time to be movin’ on out and up to safer feeding grounds.  And so it seems, the same be true with Rupert’s minions.  They are moving out and moving on I suspect ,  to avoid being burned ,  let alone caught in the political bonfire lit by “outraged officeholders” who are seizing on an opportunity to get even with Rupert for all he’s done to and for them over the years.  T’will be interesting to see whose fingers will be pointing and shaking whose will be getting burned.  As Mr. Douglas , my high school business education teacher cautioned us one class period, “if you’re going to steal , steal something big.  And whatever you do don’t rob a bank and get the FBI involved.  They’‘ll get you sooner or later.”  A man before his time. 

Sabagio Mauraeno
Cooling off on Da Deck after 2 months of 90 degree + heat wave weather.

I’ll bet there’s an interesting story on how Brooks became a senior editor and why Murdoch refused to take her resignaton as look as he did.
Murdoch’s British Media CEO Steps Down  
Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive officer of News Corp.’s News International UK publishing unit, has stepped down amid a phone-hacking scandal that resulted in the closure of the News of the World tabloid she once edited. http://www.newslook.com/videos/329872-murdoch-s-british-media-ceo-steps-down?autoplay=true

Subject:    i would just like to recount
briefly an encounter with one of rupert’s u.s.
henchmen, the very one who wrote the “son of
sam” stories for the n.y. post, steve donleavy,
a kiwi ex rugby player who it turned out had
gouged eyes and bitten off ears during his days
as a reporter in asia and hooking up with
rupert. i was the publisher of urizen books and
had done Wilfred Burchett’s [an Aussie]
GRASSHOPPERS AND ELEPHANTS which was Wilfred’s
very much inside tunnels account of being with
the Vietcong up and down the Ho Chi Minh trail.
I recall going out at 4 pm for my pickme-up Mars
bar and seeing Wilfred’s photo, pudgy faced, on
the front page of the NY Post: “Torturer of
G.I’s in New York.” My heart sank as I chewed my
Mars bar and walked the two blocks back to my
office: “No, Wilfred, please no,” I prayed and
then called the White House communications
director, Hoving, who said, “Nonsense”, he has a
visa, he was part of the peace process, he was
one of Uncle Ho’s gobetween.” I had invited a
lot of journalists to a by then famous
restaurant where i had been going when it was
just a hole in the wall on 2nd Avenue, Elaine’s,
lots of journalists who had been in touch with
Wilfred during their mutual Vietnam days. David
Halberstam, David Arnett, a table full, the big
table and we were having a good time, I was just
a kid then, the year is 1978, when Donleavy
barges in and ruins the evening. Elaine Kaufman,
the recently deceased owner tells me I might
want to leave through the kitchen, Donleavy has
his Post photographer waiting outside [“Torturer
of G.I.‘s at Elaine’s”]. I make the mistake of
taking Mama’s advice and leave through the
kitchen when Donleavy and photographer barge
into the kitchen and he pushes me aside, who has
interposed himself between him and Wilfred and
his Bulgarian wife. That is called assault and I
called the police and took Donleavy to court and
the judge said you can read Donleavy’s record,
Wilfred had provided it, into the court record
or you have to bring all the witnesses to court,
three times, and I will give you a conviction on
the order off leaving the cover off a garbage
can [a priceless detail, no?]. I took the judge
up on his offer. As Donleavy and his Post lawyer
and I left Part One Leonard Street court, where
we had been called first among the hundreds that
morning, Donleavy said: “Aren’t you glad I
didn’t bite off your ear.” A sense of humor then
makes me forgive Steve Donleavy and his toupe,
but not a publisher who employs his likes. The
post never ran the photo “Torturer of G.I.‘s
Slinking out of Elaine’s Kitchen.”. Here is a
link to the story at a posting about Elaine’s on
my http://artscritic.blogspot.com/

Well, Richard Reeves, all may not be lost. The way things are shaping up, if you are willing to wait at the end of a very, very long line, there is a very, very tiny chance you may have another opportunity to pee on Rupert.

Richard, I think you completely lost any credibility you may have had with your ridiculous statement that somehow Murdock invented the union of press and government. This has happened in this country since WWI and perhaps before. Obaaaaaama has indeed brought it to new heights, using taxpayer dollars to fund it, now, via GE. Grow up if you think people don’t know this too well.

Again, what a ridiculous thing to say.

The whole article sounds like sour grapes, infighting, petty posturing, while all of you “artists and writers” could focus on real issues instead of your clique wars.

And don’t talk about missing the chance to pee on someone. Its beneath someone who supposedly tries to write credible things.

The reason being, of course, is that it invites people to want to pee on you. Its unseemly in every instance. You are not Jon Lebovits.

Like I said, little boy pee wars is all this is…

Ted Turner. Please come back. You were a prophet without honors in your own times. Now You have a second chance at Rupert and his Scoff-Law Global Mafia Family.

Ted Turner has always contended that Murdoch paid off members of Congress to speed up his citizenship application, the piece of paper he needed to buy into the American electronic media.  Why hasn’t THAT possibility been looked into by the likes of J. Rockefeller, et. al.  Some of them were members of Congress when Rupert became and US citizen.

Well he didn’t miss his chance…since then there has been a golden shower raining
down on this whole country, through faux news…and his control of the news perverting it
to favor the con in conservatives….maybe it would have been better to fight him than
engage in a pissing contest…