UPDATE: Rupert Murdoch has suddenly closed down News of the World, the weekly tabloid at the center of the British phone hacking scandal after a final, ad-free Sunday edition this weekend. This development was sufficiently unavoidable that FoxNews.com finally acknowledged the scandal).
Sometimes the practice of skeezy brilliance comes back to kick the practictioner. For brilliant billionaire skeezebags like Rupert Murdoch, not often enough.
But the hacking of murdered schoolgirl's cell phones voicemails and now those of terror bombing victims' relatives by the right-wing swine's News of the World has caused Prime Minister David Cameron to squirm in an appearance before British parliament Wednesday; advertisers are fleeing; the stock of parent company NewsCorp is plummeting, and a planned buyout of Sky News has been imperiled.
Arrests of up to five NewsCorps employees are expected within days.
So what are we hearing about all this on Fox News? That would be one great big fair & balanced herd of crickets.
The so-called reporters even deleted phone messages to get more opportunities for stories, which gave a murdered girl's family false hopes she might be still alive.
It's going on in the US, too. Salon's Alex Pareene:
Here in the U.S., Murdoch's New York Post -- edited by Col Allen -- is currently being sued by the woman who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape, because the Post -- relying solely on unnamed anonymous sources -- called her a "hooker." In huge, screaming, million-point text, on the front page last Saturday. The paper also repeatedly called the maid a "prostitute" and even accused her of "turning tricks on the taxpayer's dime," claiming she continued to act as a hotel prostitute while under the supervision of the District Attorney's office. While other newspapers have reported on the woman's "credibility" problems, not one has so definitively and matter-of-factly accused her of being a "hooker," let alone one whose union assigned her to the Sofitel in order to maximize their prostitution revenue.
What's big on Fox News? That would be Casey Anthony, Casey Anthony, and Casey Anthony.
It must be said: when the NY Times fucks up, there's much crying, head-chopping, and rending of garments; when MSNBC-ers get it wrong or say something untoward there are apoplogies, suspensions and firings. Murdoch? He's "declining further comment."
Ah Putsie, if I said it was day, you would rush to your computer to say it is night.
I never said Omaha would be toast. I never said the Palin's would divorce. I posted articles I found that said it because I thought they were interesting. The King of Cut and Paste knows about "posting" things, now don't you...
Of course Murdoch will survive, but he has just put hundreds of people out of work, with more to come because of his stock tanking. But, he, nor you, care about such trivial matters. You will both live to see another day where you can make fun of people. There is quite an audience out there for it, I hear.
Posted by: sparky | July 09, 2011 at 10:12 AM
I better clarify that for you: the Koch brothers think you are stupid and they are using you. And they are right.
Posted by: joanie | July 07, 2011 at 10:40 PM
Oh KS do you really think Patty Murray sent that herself? Like she sat at a computer screen late into the night and thought "im gonna ask the Kochs for money cuz Im sure they will give me some" ??? Some idiot intern did a mass mailing and doesn't know about the Kochsuckers. Same for the pre-recorded voice mail. You will have to go fishing for something else, or maybe you just get a tingle from something as nonsensical as this?
Posted by: Newman | July 07, 2011 at 10:42 PM
Doesn't matter who sent it - it was sent by the DSCC - OK ? More barking at the moon by the progressive moonbats - as shown above. I'd say the DSCC is looking foolish and desperate.
Posted by: KS | July 10, 2011 at 05:49 PM
Any of you righty types still propping up Rupert?
Posted by: Mace | July 13, 2011 at 06:47 PM