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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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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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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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Unexplained, but not Suspicious? Doh!
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Yellow Journalism 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. ![]() Whistleblower Found Dead Quote:
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." ![]() Jon Stewart Summarizes a Big Day in the Phone Hacking Scandal Ranking the Best Performances in Today's Phone Hacking Hearing Ex-Execs Contradict James Murdoch Testimony Quote:
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 Investigates police bribery, 9/11 victims' phone hacking Murdoch on Wendi: 'Oh Yes, She's Tough' Is the Tea Party Self-Destructive? Quote:
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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???
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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...) Quote:
by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis 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 Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet The 12 Nastiest Villains in the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal Kathmandu and the Black Prince Quote:
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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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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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Right wing xenophobic gutterpress for the most part.
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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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