― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― briania, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:06 (twenty years ago) link
― earlnash, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link
He's right though. Murdoch's empire is responsible for excessive competition facing the Virgin/ntl group the erosion of parliamentary democracy in this country.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
who's whining that the big boys stole his lunch money.
― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link
(although fox DOES make 'the shield'...)
i never defended maggie neither, just suggested that MAYBE she wasn't responsible for EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED in the last three decades of UK politics and economics.
― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
yesterday at work i argued *very hard* with this guy who'd come in to explain the new labour agenda for training in the nhs. he was an internal market true believer. they're doing things the tory right of the late 80s dreamt about. alas i work for one of the old royal colleges, and thus represent a 'conservative' vested interest of um people who know things about health care. hence the doh has set up a quango to replace us.
anyway *he* used thatcher as an example of the bad old days in the nhs. it was useful cover.
― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Tonight:Malcolm in the MiddleMalcolm in the MiddleSimpsonsSimpsonsStargateStargateLost
Tomorrow evening:Malcolm in the MiddleMalcolm in the MiddleSimpsonsSimpsonsSimpsonsSimpsonsBones
Friday evening:Malcolm in the MiddleMalcolm in the MiddleSimpsonsSimpsonsFootball Icon 2Raod WarsLas Vegas
Saturday evening:Malcolm in the MiddleMalcolm in the MiddleFuturamaFuturamaMission ImplausibleThe Big Idea
― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
4 different episodes of Stargate SG-1 in one day is better than just repeating the same one or two in that same time i guess
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Through a twenty deep screen of humourists (noodle vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Through a twenty deep screen of humourists (noodle vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Through a twenty deep screen of humourists (noodle vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't get sky. i paid for murdoch-produced films and tv shows though. if itv could do one (1) show worth watching... that'd be nice.
― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Through a twenty deep screen of humourists (noodle vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5859108.ece
strange days
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 15 March 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google
― James Mitchell, Monday, 9 November 2009 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link
don't let the door smack ur arse on the way out, rupe
― BARRY ROUBAIX (haitch), Monday, 9 November 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Petition vs Murdoch's takeovers here:http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_bskyb/97.php?cl_tta_sign=7ecb089befcae54ba8fc64edcbd1dcf4
― the pinefox, Thursday, 30 December 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Adam Curtis on Rupert Murdoch. The Wogan interview is especially bizarre.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 30 January 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't really defend him too much, if at all, but today his Sun newspaper boasted the sentence
"Her clients simply arrive at the cockroach-infested motel, undress, then have hardware store silicone pumped into their backsides."
It caused me to wriggle in a pleasing way and to think that there are things going on in the world that I want to know more about.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3421071/Claudias-death-is-tragic-but-it-wont-stop-my-illegal-booty-shots.html
― Proger, Saturday, 19 February 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
The Wogan interview is especially bizarre.
otm - was fascinating to watch, from such a different time (wogan actually really good and provocative but blatantly biased in a way you surely couldn't get now)
― idgi fridays (blueski), Saturday, 19 February 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been given government approval for its controversial takeover of BSkyB.The green light follows News Corp's offer to spin-off Sky News as an independent company.The decision follows concerns about the concentration of media outlets in the hands of one organisation.
The green light follows News Corp's offer to spin-off Sky News as an independent company.
The decision follows concerns about the concentration of media outlets in the hands of one organisation.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
The decision follows ignores concerns about the concentration of media outlets in the hands of one organisation.
fixed.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking tories
― Fannypack's "Camel Toe" (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the spin about Murdoch "hiving off" Sky News when the details say he'll still own the same size stake in it he always did.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Least surprising decision ever.
― I'm sorry, I did not create the cosmos, I merely explain it. (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
So the new Sky News will be dependent on revenues from Sky/NewsCorp, will be contracted to NewsCorp, and will rely on NewsCorp for permission to use the Sky brand. That doesn't make it an independent company, it means that NewsCorp becomes a client of Sky News, its only client. So if Murdoch doesn't like the way a supposedly independent Sky News is covering something, it has to change. There's no independence there at all.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Just saw this being talked about on a blog, can't recall seeing ANYTHING about this in the news here in the US.
http://www.adweek.com/news/press/news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal-never-ends-131391
http://www.adweek.com/michael-wolff/devils-due-132653
While the phone hacking scandal is omnipresent in the U.K., it is a story that continues to unfold in the U.S. as though by sporadic telegraph, and always seems to require a ritual recap for the implacably unaware American audience. In sum: It is now well-documented that employees of Murdoch’s News of the World British tabloid eavesdropped on the voice mail messages of practically anybody who was anybody in Britain for the better part of the last 10 years—the most recent revelations put Kate Middleton and Tony Blair on this list—including, undoubtedly, some of the people who went to the News Corp. party. Although this might not have seemed like much of a crime while it was being committed by myriad News Corp. reporters, and sanctioned by their bosses—just hacks being hacks—it has since transmuted into a profound breach of the civil trust. And to date, each next domino in the inquest has fallen.The informed speculation in U.K. media and political circles is about which present and former members of the top circle of News Corp. management in London will next be frog marched in front of a tribunal. In addition to company chief Rebekah Wade Brooks (who herself appears to have been hacked by NoW reporters) and her predecessor Les Hinton, who now runs The Wall Street Journal, this might naturally include Rupert’s son, James, who approved the early settlements in the case—settlements so large they could only reasonably be hush-money payoffs.
The informed speculation in U.K. media and political circles is about which present and former members of the top circle of News Corp. management in London will next be frog marched in front of a tribunal. In addition to company chief Rebekah Wade Brooks (who herself appears to have been hacked by NoW reporters) and her predecessor Les Hinton, who now runs The Wall Street Journal, this might naturally include Rupert’s son, James, who approved the early settlements in the case—settlements so large they could only reasonably be hush-money payoffs.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
done
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
On RM's behalf, I'd like to say that he has probably managed to undermine the prestige and influence of the WSJ, which if true would be a good thing.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Every time this thread gets revived I get my hopes up.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
I thought this revive was either going to be about today's fucked up NY Post cover or The Daily going under
guess there's a lot going on in Murdoch land
― dmr, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
his mom died
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
His mother was still alive? She must have been at least 100...
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
103 even
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-en7uMFB0Bys/UxYF4t1M_tI/AAAAAAACxL0/Q6aY2Nhk8rg/s1600/Murdochtweet4.JPG
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
There is no extant big mess that I can point to, ergo the required big mess must be coming. QED.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
kinda feel like destroying National Geographic is the worst thing he's ever done. A rightly revered genuine institution, down the drain in my lifetime.
http://boingboing.net/2015/11/05/shortly-after-rupert-murdoch-b.html
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 November 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geographic-chief-says-layoffs-done-to-avert-financial-derailment/2015/11/04/83fae59a-8314-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html
Current Ceo Knell says he ordered the cuts prior to Murdock taking over. The Post doesn't address whether Knell's pension will be cut. Of course it won't, until Murdoch tires of him.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Murdoch is trying to spin this, by claiming only 4 people are being canned from the magazine; as if canning folks from a still financially successful entity who work for their tv channel is ok; or freezing pensions is fine...
earlier W. Post articlehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geographic-society-sets-biggest-layoff-in-its-history/2015/11/03/2966e1b4-8252-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html
The reduction, the largest in the organization’s 127-year history, appears to affect almost every department of the nonprofit organization, including the magazine, which the society has published since just after its founding in 1888. The reduction also will affect people who work for the National Geographic Channel, the most profitable part of the organization. Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday, employees said.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
Sad about this. It's the one magazine I still had a subscription to. I cancelled that yesterday, which was the first I'd heard of Murdoch taking over.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 November 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
can someone count up the times new management of a major publication promised to not fire/mess with editorial and actually held to those promises
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 November 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
King James Bible
― systems drinking (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 November 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
What In The Living Fuck?
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
Murdoch's life is like the grossest Woody Allen movie
― Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Thursday, 14 January 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link
So, Jerry, what first attracted you to multi-billionaire, Rupert Murdoch?... and so on.
― Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 4 March 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
For those who've always wondered how he sleeps at night, finally the answer they've been hoping for.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/13/rupert-murdoch-hurt-by-closeness-of-wendi-deng-and-tony-blair-editor-reveals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
Funny that he's left twitter, I wonder what the motivation was in the first place
― badg, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
“It seemed to me at the time that, in the post-phone-hacking media world, Rupert’s marriage breakdown was treated vindictively and that a man well in to his 80s losing a wife with whom he had fathered two children was given no room to grieve for his loss.”*Lilliputian Pagnini holds the world's tiniest Stradivarius aloft*
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
the lack of self-awareness is genuinely remarkable
― I cry, and watch my DivX's of Brass Eye to console myself.... (stevie), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 08:14 (seven years ago) link
the rich have no need for self-awareness
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
i live for the day this morally bankrupt fuckfaced sack of shit dies, in chronic and untreatable and excruciating pain
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
the ONLY reason i wouldn't piss on his grave is that it would not be fair to subject my bodily waste to this revolting bigoted fuck
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
goddammit i was hoping this was a ‘he’s dead lol’ revive
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
technically he has been dead for decades
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
i assumed losing 150 mil to theranos was no big whoop but acc to bad blood it’s by far his biggest investment loss ever so that’s something
― sciatica, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Hopefully that will take a few years off his life.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
good
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
also i like to think the scuppered bskyb acquisition made him cry and gave him syphilis
Murdoch seems like the Mr. Potter character in It's a Wonderful Life, but instead of just spinning his evil web over Bedford Falls, MA, he fucks up whole nations.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 21 June 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Haven't read this thread but I didn't know he was nearly done.
6 December 1990: the day Rupert Murdoch almost went out of business. If the Pittsburgh National Bank had only stood firm and refused him that ten million dollars!— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) April 20, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 April 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link