Is Rupert Murdoch's empire going into meltdown

[Mr. Perfect]

Anybody who makes the government as nervous as RM did is doing the Lord's work.

[skyhook77sfg]

he's just another douchebag predator

ask around in aussieland

about his family

and their sleaze

[Mr. Perfect]

God works in mysterious ways.

[AzariLoveIran]

[skyhook77sfg]

speaaking of arrogant assholes...

lets not slight capn bob koch

aka Robert Maxwell

[AzariLoveIran]

[Tinker]

[Mr. Perfect]

Better than nothing.

[Tinker]

[Torchwood]

Guido Fawkes points out that News International were not the worst offenders, and that . Yes, the sleaze of the tabloids might go, but so would exposés of the rich and powerful - might end up with a French style press, which did not dare to say anything about DSK's reputation and had to wait for Americans to expose it.

[Tinker]

[AzariLoveIran]

[Torchwood]

Miliband is both British and Jewish - so he must the fount of all evil, nicht wahr, Azari?

Fortunately there is this internet thingy. Only the Chinese have worked out how to control it properly.

[Tinker]

[AzariLoveIran]

[Torchwood]

The head of the Metropolitan police , Sir Paul Stephenson, has resigned, Rebekah Brooks, former News International chief executive, has been arrested.

It is no longer inconceivable that this scandal may engulf Cameron himself, given his own dubious past links to NI. Meanwhile the Lib Dems, seemingly on the point of extinction a month or two back , are the only party untainted by all this - because they were too unimportant for Murdoch to bother with. Clegg warned Cameron about appointing Coulson, it seems, and Lib Dem Business minister Vince Cable was much mocked and criticised a few months ago when he said that he was out to stop Murdoch in the UK..

I think Cameron will survive because the LDs know that any other Conservative PM would be further to the right and less accommodating with them, but the balance of power has shifted. William Hague, the current foreign minister, would be the best alternative: a very clever sensible politician, but in this media savvy age he is bald and has a voice which sounds like sandpaper being dragged across glass.

As ever, the BBC with their inbuilt and unconscious left wing bias, think they are being fair, but they are just loving all this (as must be the MSM channels in the US, gunning for Fox). Sky News, the Murdoch cable channel, has never however been politically partisan like Fox News - but then, Murdoch did not have majority control, and that is what he was trying to get until a week ago.

Unlike the Azaris of this world, there is no need to invoke conspiracy. But to say that any party here is being impartial and fair minded would be massively naive.

[Tinker]

I think the point missed when people focus on Murdoch is that this isn't about Murdoch who is one of the slimiest morlochs ever to crawl from beneath the Earth to devour and Eloi. What it's really about is the concentration of power. The concentration of power in ANY industry to that degree is unhealthy.

Limiting the role of Corporations is certainly one of the proper roles of the government considering the government issues corporate charters to begin with.

[noddy]

in my country the government considers 2 or 3 plenty of competition - apparently we dont have the population to support more, so only that many licenses are issued.
take away murdoch's newscorp and just like torchwood was saying about britain, we would have a very moderate to left wing press.

heres hoping free publishing on the net stays the way it is into the future despite my cynicism, that and only that, would make the demise of traditional news palatable.

[Tinker]

[noddy]

you may have noticed im not big on licensing approved vendors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian ... _Authority

they have a nifty new power which is internet blacklisting with no public transparency - domains can just dissapear and thats it.. already it has been proven that complex multi hosted sites get hosed just because one forum or sub domain was not government approved.

[Tinker]

Yea, I had gotten that impression.

[Colonel Sun]

[noddy]

i wish i could be optmistic, my nature dislikes my cynicism, but alas.

[Colonel Sun]

[Tinker]