The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread

however that did mark the moment when I realised no more news would be occurring on this special bumper edition of NN

Profile on Wendi:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/wendi-deng-charlies-angel-moment

most iiiiinteresting daily mail front page about the 'real scandal'

they're not, you know, entirely wrong, buuuuut

Truly, a tool:

http://www.observer.com/2011/07/heres-jonnie-marbles-pie-thrower-aimed-for-activism-and-laughs/

“He was very, very unfunny,” the source added, insisting that we refer to him as a classmate or acquaintance. “Please don’t use the word friend.”

:D

Hahaha I knew you would love that.

loooool

hey my comment's made it to the top of his youtube :D

omg omg omg and through that I just discovered that majestic DOMFALL <3 <3 <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwFusX363cg

omg

thought everybody had seen this by now tbh

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/07/19/is-woman-hear-her-roar-wendi-deng-murdoch-fights-back/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtz-se1wgo

does that feature him getting cock-punched? otherwise i don't think i'll click

oh dear

I am impressed with the audience for not laughing AT ALL at his first joke.

That incident is now clearly the most important thing that will be remembered/written about from these hearings. Hope marbles was hired by NI to create a diversion, because it worked perfectly.

holy lol at domfall.

this marbles cunt's voice sounds a lot like that of a very nice person i know, it's putting me off of my attempts to hate him unreservedly.

that Domfall was amazing, well done whoever

HAH from that FOX piece:

(Those of you with better things to do might not know that the media mogul Murdoch is being questioned about the tactics some of his reporting staff undertook, including wire taps, paying for news tips and generally beating the competition to shreds with scoops. In response, politicians are clamoring for a chance to say – on camera – how horrified they are about the entire ordeal. Simply horrified.)

Paying for news tips? Why that doesn't sound bad at all!

Whoever done Domfall, I love you and will buy you more than one pint in honour. RIP Big Man indeed.

Fuck that comedian guy, I had never seen Domfall and now that's eclipsed Murdoch in my memory

Not yet sure if this is directly related: http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/07/murdoch-biographer-rupert-wants-lachlan-to-buy-news-limited.html

News Ltd is the local arm of News Corp. It controls something like 70% of the newspaper press here.

Is it that high? That seems very high.

He also owns all those Leader community papers, and Brisbane & Adelaide have nothing but the Courier Mail/Tiser and the Oz.

think lachlan is too smart to buy a bunch of papers that will start leaking money within five years tbh

I thought Australian media was controlled by the Murdochs, kangaroos, and the progeny of felons

it is!

think lachlan is too smart to buy a bunch of papers that will start leaking money within five years tbh

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You're that sure?

(I hope you're right, I just don't see it myself)

It controls something like 70% of the newspaper press here.

Is it that high? That seems very high.

Is that legal? Some antitrust stuff needs to happen cos these companies just keep growing and growing in revenue and market domination while leaving ethics in the dust. Sad thing is, I think the loophole that voids the oligarchy of legal responsibility is going to save Murdoch's ass.

We have cross-ownership laws that prevent one company controlling a range of media. As a result Murdoch can own the aforementioned press and 25% of the country's biggest pay television provider (which he does) but he's not allowed to own free-to-air television or radio stations (which he almost does – his son Lachlan is interim CEO of the Ten network).

Is he allowed to own that much of the country's press? I don't know how far beyond the law he is in that regard but that's been the situation for more than 20 years i.e. since he bought the Herald & Weekly Times. I know there was a load of consternation when that happened but no politicians or lawmakers stopped it.

The obvious result of Murdoch having such a grip on newspapers is that he decides the outcome of all our federal elections. There is a democratic process and it is followed, but Murdoch's campaigning always determines the winner.

Weird and I thought he was too powerful in America.

Murdoch's campaigning always determines the winner

except for the last one, presumably?

dece analysis of the news ltd sitch in oz

Last week a politician raised the issue of his massive control over the press. Within two days the PM and the opposition leader had defused it.

xp do you mean the one Rudd won or last year's?

the last one

you know, the one where they backed the libs in as hard as possible yet we ended up with a minority labor govt

Abbott's so revolting that even Murdoch couldn't get him over the line imo (although certainly not without trying)

2-3 mths before Howard called the previous election Rudd went to the US and had the press stand round him while he shook Murdoch's hand outside the NYC headquarters of News Corp, ~pivotal~

yeah, well, nobody's going to be doing that anymore! as that crikey article i posted states, this will realign things here as much as anywhere else, as much as harto and chris mitchell and the other aussie execs would like to think otherwise.

That Crikey piece is great, cheers for the link. Also ha I didn't know the Oz was already losing money. You're right, if Rupert goes the Oz will go.

I'll larf if that happens. Bitch who hated me in HS works for that rag.

the oz hasn't made money for years! strictly lives on through 'influence'. it'll be like when packer carked it and channel 9 cancelled sunday (and the bulletin closing) - shareholders don't care for loss-making arms of businesses and once you get rid of the proprietor who can't let go, things tend to get, well, let go.

Completely forgot Sunday had disappeared.

it'll be like when packer carked it and channel 9 cancelled sunday (and the bulletin closing)

Oh god yes of course.

So I wonder which of his UK shitrags are money holes. They can't all be in profit, surely.

Remember ppl thought Rudd was going to lose bcz he couldn’t remember deets of a shit-blind night at a strip club in New York? And then this became “Rudd’s a Top Bloke, he went out on the piss*, good on him........*[WITH THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK POST]” – not hard to see the hand writing that narrative.

you know, the one where they backed the libs in as hard as possible yet we ended up with a minority labor govt

The one where they turned around from the biggest swing in voter memory to not even being able to form a government? And now after another year of steady beasting from News Ltd, despite being in massively better shape financially than under Howard, have dropped to even lower in opinion polling?

The one where they turned around from the biggest swing in voter memory to not even being able to form a government?

On that, I do love how the Murdoch readers claimed a resounding victory based solely on the swing.

In yesterday's inquiry, Murdoch openly said his newspapers run campaigns. That puts paid to all the bell-ends here who insist that Murdoch's newspapers don't run campaigns.

e.g. when he said his press supported Thatcher until she lost the plot or whatever