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Old 07-15-2011, 08:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The Fall of Rupert Murdoch's Empire?



The Fall of Rupert Murdoch's Empire? News of the World Stops Publication!

The News of The World were in big trouble recently when it was discovered they were hacking into the voice mail of high profile celebrities and politicians, and have had to fork out millions in compensation recently. Short jail terms have been served and cases are on going.

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Apparently the FBI are investigating allegations of phone hacking by News Corp,
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the FBI opened an investigation into whether British reporters tried to access cellphone messages and records of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in violation of U.S. law.
FBI opens inquiry into Murdoch's News Corp. - latimes.com
Fox could lose their federal broadcasting licenses.
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I doubt Fox will lose it's ability to broadcast, but at the same time I don't see Rupert recovering from this before he croaks.

Which I guess is some justice, you'd think the man responsible for the bitterly partisan, hostile and unproductive state of journalism that infests our media would do prison time, or in a perfect world be lined against a wall.
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Old 07-18-2011, 06:20 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Newscorp. is not going to recover from this..not surprisingly there is very little coverage of this on Fox, and it's wall to wall on MSNBC
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History shows...

...that all empires fall.

And the higher they rise, the harder they fall.

Enjoy your just rewards Mr. Murdoch.
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...that all empires fall.

And the higher they rise, the harder they fall.

Enjoy your just rewards Mr. Murdoch.
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Old 07-22-2011, 04:40 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Unexplained, but not Suspicious? Doh!

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"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
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contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935
During the years 1916-1937, William Randolph Hearst created a yellow journalism campaign to associate hemp with marijuana. Even though smoking hemp, like most fibers, will just make you sick, Hearst, along with his friend Pierre Dupont, succeeded in outlawing hemp in America. They actually robbed the world of an environmental cash crop. Why would they do such a thing? Because instead of using hemp for paper, clothing, fuel, oils, resins, medicines, and many other uses, we now use paper and synthetic petrochemicals. Hearst owned huge forests and interests in lumber mills. Dupont made synthetic fuels and fibers (nylon, rayon, plastics) from petroleum.

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Effects of the Press on Spanish-American Relations in 1898
Hearst upset the left-wing in America by being a pro-Nazi in the 1930s and a staunch anti-Communist? in the 1940s.



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News of the World Whistleblower Found Dead
In a statement to the paper, investigators refused to confirm Hoare's identity: "At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after." Investigators added that "the death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious."



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Ranking the Best Performances in Today's Phone Hacking Hearing

Ex-Execs Contradict James Murdoch Testimony

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The death of the whistleblower who landed Rupert Murdoch in trouble drew a big chuckle from Glenn Beck yesterday. "Did you hear about the guy who was the whistleblower on the News of the World thing? I love this story. He woke up dead!"

US Readies News Corp Subpoenas
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Old 07-22-2011, 04:49 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Yeah the guy blows the whistle on the most powerful media empire that ever existed, he dies within weeks with no probable cause and it's not suspicious???


Phone hacking: pressure mounts on James Murdoch | Media | guardian.co.uk

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Colin Myler, former editor of the News of the World, and Tom Crone, former News International legal manager, issued a joint statement on Thursday night saying that Murdoch had been "mistaken" when he said he had not seen a key email.
Hopefully the Murdochs' rotten empire will collapse. Prison is too good for them..
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Old 07-22-2011, 07:23 PM   #10 (permalink)
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...that all empires fall.

And the higher they rise, the harder they fall.

Enjoy your just rewards Mr. Murdoch.
Good to see you back. Enjoy your tenacity.
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Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” Returns to the Internet

Restored Dark Alliance website Aug. 18, 1996
Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in early '80s to help finance war -- and a plague was born.

When First We Practice To Deceive


The rest of the story: 'Kill the Messenger' does what the U.S. press wouldn't do—ask hard questions about the campaign against Gary Webb.

Kill the Messenger: The Tragic Life of Gary Webb

Kill the Messenger
Editor's note: It's not easy when a colleague, let alone a journalist you hold in the highest regard, commits suicide. When Gary Webb took his own life two years ago, he and I had both been working at the Sacramento News & Review. In the days that followed, I fielded numerous phone calls from well-meaning folks who were convinced that he had been shot by the agency he went after in his famed "Dark Alliance" series. My personal belief is that the CIA didn't need to kill Gary; they'd already set his demise in motion by employing "unnamed sources" to discredit him in the nation's major print media. To the very end, Gary complained that no one had ever disproved a single fact in his series. The fact that so many respected newspapers so eagerly took this bait, and that one of our nation's last true investigative reporters had been driven to such desperation, is something I could not reconcile then or now. (website may be down,no cache...)

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How the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech Are Silencing the Messenger
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As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is "delusional" and "blood-drenched" while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters of "stability." full story

The Scary Religious Ideology Behind Michele Bachmann's Anti-Gay Crusade

Why the Wealthiest Americans Are the Real 'Job-Killers'

Congressmen and Banksters Protect Despots, Drug Lords and Tax Evaders

11 States Trying Really Hard to Keep Poor, Black, and Student Voters From Voting
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The 12 Nastiest Villains in the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal

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ALEC: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests In State Legislatures May 16
PFAW's latest Right Wing Watch In Focus looks at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing policy group that funnels pro-corporate legislation to the states at the expense of citizens whose rights and interests are sold off to the highest bidder. Read more


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schadenfreud at its best.

these are the same people who called jullian assange a hero.
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Julian Assange sought to show the people the dishonest and corrupt way diplomacy is committed in this country and abroad.

Murdoch and his ilk used blackmail and insane hyperbole to build an evil empire of talking heads that pushed fascism and demagoguery as a rule.

Now whose supporters are in the wrong here?
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Yeah the guy blows the whistle on the most powerful media empire that ever existed, he dies within weeks with no probable cause and it's not suspicious???


Phone hacking: pressure mounts on James Murdoch | Media | guardian.co.uk



Hopefully the Murdochs' rotten empire will collapse. Prison is too good for them..
Being boiled in piss is too good for them.
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it is kinda funny tho that all the liberal people on msnbc and here were all excited about lulsec and anonymous and julian assange for doing the exact same thing and now they have such false outrage that news of the world did it.

the only reason its not apples to apples is because you dont like the people doing it in one case and do in the other.
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outside news of the world, i'm not familiar with any of the newspapers he owned..what were they like..
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outside news of the world, i'm not familiar with any of the newspapers he owned..what were they like..
Right wing xenophobic gutterpress for the most part.
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it is kinda funny tho that all the liberal people on msnbc and here were all excited about lulsec and anonymous and julian assange for doing the exact same thing and now they have such false outrage that news of the world did it.

the only reason its not apples to apples is because you dont like the people doing it in one case and do in the other.
It's not so much the phone hacking as the lies, following cover up and bribery of police that is considered serious.
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it is kinda funny tho that all the liberal people on msnbc and here were all excited about lulsec and anonymous and julian assange for doing the exact same thing and now they have such false outrage that news of the world did it.

the only reason its not apples to apples is because you dont like the people doing it in one case and do in the other.
comparing rupert murdoch to julian assange?

lmao

you know nothing of the world or how it operates

ps- you might want to stop with the whole "calling everyone who disagrees with you a liberal thing" it makes you look like an idiot.
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Right wing xenophobic gutterpress for the most part.
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