On Rupert Murdoch today

 

It seems the "big thing" in the news today about Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. scandal in England is that some guy tried to hit him in the face with shave cream. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not the important part of this story today at all. At all. Far more important is that first, he said he bears no responsibility whatever for the fact that people in his company bribed police officers, at least, to get stories. Second, he immediately followed that with "cover" for his underlings--his sons and Rebekah Brooks, his Chief Executive at News of the World--by saying they weren't responsible, either. It must be nice to run a multi-billion dollar organization, get paid huge money and not be responsible, all at the same time. I wish I had that job. Here's a beauty--it's a quote by Mr. Murdoch this morning from the testimony: ""News of the World is 1% of company and we are a proud and great and ethical distinguished people," whereupon, to make his point, he also slammed the desk. The thing is, is there anyone who is going to believe anything Rupert Murdoch says? Finally, if you check the last link here, below, you'll see the "tabloid hacking scandal" goes back to at least last Fall, last September, when it was discovered NOTW was hacking the Royal's phone messages. It makes it all the more difficult to believe Mr. Murdoch wouldn't have been paying attention to his own property. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/man-rushes-rupert-murdoch-hearing-160244558.html; http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/wall-street-journal-editorial-independence-murdoch-144244300.html; http://www.businessinsider.com/murdoch-testifies-live-coverage-of-the-parliamentary-phone-hacking-hearing-2011-7; http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/news-of-the-world-makes-headlines-of-its-own/; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html