Comments on: Will the virus claim Rupert Murdoch himself?

By: ARJTurgot2

ARJTurgot2 — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:29:00 +0000

There is a moment here when formal professional journalism can regain some credibility and relevance. News Corps’ pattern of behavior goes far beyond phone hacking. Can the news media report on the news media. Are there investigative reporters that are willing to report that their associates broke the law, and identify them by name. Not sure I buy the ‘I was only following orders’ defense that some of the News Corps types are pushing.

By: Biscayne

Biscayne — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:54:38 +0000

Mt. Salmon,
You forget that it was the money that bought him the power and he will be the first to tell you that the more the money , the more the power.
Rupert Murdoch built his wealth by preying on the gullible and catering to their lowest instincts. He has made an enormous contribution to the debasement of discourse in public life and cared not a whit about the consequences so long as the money was coming in. He is, if you think about it, on the same moral level as a drug dealer.

By: Biscayne

Biscayne — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:54:32 +0000

By: kvkschoudary

kvkschoudary — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:38:33 +0000

POWER CORRUPTS AND AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY. MONOPOLIES HAVE A WAY OF PRODUCING PEOPLE SO DRUNK ON POWER & MONEY THAT THEY FAIL TO REALISE WHEN THEY CROSS THE LINE. Most of present day ills of the western nations are that their BANKS & MEDIA have grown into conglomerates controlled by a few Power & Money hungry people and most of the politicians are bit players who come and go on the stage as per the dictates of these people.
Monopolies and over grown conglomerates are going to be the self made weapons of the western capitalism, which will ultimately destroy it.

By: Elektrobahn

Elektrobahn — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:31:52 +0000

Nasty man, that Rupert Murdoch. All this looks very good on him.

By: robert1234

robert1234 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:37:28 +0000

The only reasonable action is to withdraw the corporate charter to those organizations that performed criminal acts. Once the charter is withdrawn, the only thing the “organization” can do is liquidate their assets and pay off their stockholders in proportion to their holdings. That would mean, essentially, that each of Murdoch holdings would be separated totally from each other and there would be no News Corp. existing. That’s the right thing to do. Murdoch’s billions would go to compensating his stockholders for their losses.

By: hsvkitty

hsvkitty — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:16:41 +0000

They can’t lie? Erm, what they can’t do is tell the truth. They made it their business… literally.