The Murdoch Empire's Greatest Test

[Prospero]

Is the Archbishop implicated yet? I see he had to fire his publicity man because he made rather crude jokes about the prelate "roughly taking" Chistina Odone (a roman catholic journalist and broadcaster) in a debate. Surely they must be able to discover that the Archbishop had dinner with Rebekah or rupert?

[Stavros]

Its not His Grace we should be concerned about now; David Cameron as far as I can see has made poor judgements, and I am assuming that Clegg has consulted with his colleagues to work out what happens if they decide this situation is not just a crisis for the Murdoch press and the Metropolitan Police, but the Governance of Britain. I am assuming that Cameron can resign as Prime Minister and remain leader of the Party in which case Parliament nominates a new PM; or Cameron can resign both positions and the Conservatives nominate a new leader and PM -only it can't be George Osborne because his links to Murdoch are deeper than Cameron's. Neither in the coalition will want an election, given the hammering the LibDems got last time; also, it is not clear how far the general public care about any of this beyond the specific cases of Milly Dowler, the 7/7 families and the service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. Labour's problem is that most of the alleged crimes took place when it was in power and thus Blair, Brown and people like Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper can't just walk away from it or join the shoot. As the New York Times put it today, Murdoch has tended to buy its way out of problems, in the US as well as the UK, but this time money doesn't put out the fire, it just burns...NewsCorp has now lost $10bn in value in the last 2 weeks. The various lawsuits NewsCorp silenced with cash are referred to here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/bu...agewanted=2&hp

[Ben]

[Ben]

Congress: Investigate Rupert Murdoch:

http://act2.freepress.net/sign/investigate_murdoch/

[Ben]

For those who are interested:

[nonnonnon]

love the pie in the face haha

[SammiValentine]

Quite disappointing questions really, aside from Tom Watson of course - who was fantastic

The foam in the face was moronic really, yea lets do as much as we can to assist this "poor 80 yr old fella" to appear the victim, or leave it till the last question (?) so that people can quickly forget all the questions prior... amazing lack of intelligence for giggles there. What a wanker that chap was.

[robertlouis]

Quite disappointing questions really, aside from Tom Watson of course - who was fantastic

The foam in the face was moronic really, yea lets do as much as we can to assist this "poor 80 yr old fella" to appear the victim, or leave it till the last question (?) so that people can quickly forget all the questions prior... amazing lack of intelligence for giggles there. What a wanker that chap was.

Well put, Sammi. It was always going to be a bit of a show trial without much purpose beyond the symbolic, once judicial proceedings got kicked off - interesting timing by the Met there, don't you think?

As for the foam - the guy must have got a tin of the stuff past security, presumably metal. If it had been a gun????

And finally, yes, fuck the Sun, forever and a day.

[SammiValentine]

And finally, yes, fuck the Sun, forever and a day.

Horrible rag. The NOTW was the sunday sun anyway. good riddance.

[Ben]

This YT clip w/ Hugh Grant shows the utter nexus between government and corporations. They are two peas in a pod. (Albeit the difference between government and a corporation is, well, government has a flaw. The "flaw" is they're potentially democratic.
Corporations, of course, aren't democratic. But corporations, on the other hand, do not tolerate corruption. Whereas corruption is the basis of government -- )