British panel: Murdoch ‘not a fit person’ to lead News Corp.
Here’s the lead paragraph from The Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch:
“LONDON—The U.K. parliamentary committee probing illicit voice mail interception by News Corp. shuttered News of the World tabloid released a final report Tuesday concluding that News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company” and accusing several former company executives of misleading parliament.”
And here’s an excerpt from the report, compiled by a 11-member parliamentary committee:
“On the basis of the facts and evidence before the committee, we conclude that, if at all relevant times Rupert Murdoch did not take steps to become fully informed about phone-hacking, he turned a blind eye and exhibited wilful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications.
“This culture, we consider, permeated from the top throughout the organisation and speaks volumes about the lack of effective corporate governance at News Corporation and News International.
“We conclude, therefore, that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company….”
“Corporately, the News of the World and News International misled the committee about the true nature and extent of the internal investigations they professed to have carried out in relation to phone hacking; by making statements they would have known were not fully truthful; and by failing to disclose documents which would have helped expose the truth.
“Their instinct throughout, until it was too late, was to cover up rather than seek out wrongdoing and discipline the perpetrators, as they professed they would do after the criminal convictions.
“In failing to investigate properly, and by ignoring evidence of widespread wrongdoing, NI and its parent company News Corporation exhibited wilful blindness, for which the companies’ directors – including Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch – should ultimately be prepared to take responsibility.”
– Jay Bookman
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arnold
May 1st, 2012
9:31 am
News today is not the news of yesterday. It’s pull news as opposed to push news. There is no gatekeeper. Predjudice rules.
arnold
May 1st, 2012
9:31 am
First.
arnold
May 1st, 2012
9:35 am
I should have said bias rules. You can pull the news you want to hear.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 1st, 2012
9:39 am
Good! Now maybe he will be investigated here.
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
9:43 am
And that matters exactly how? If I own a company, and a governmental body tells me they don’t think I’m fit to run the company, do you really think that is going to change my opinion of whether or not I’m going to run the company?
larry
May 1st, 2012
9:47 am
Why is Mr. Cameron sweating so much over there ? His economy is back in recession and his good close friend , Mr. Murdoch , has been found to be unfit to lead a major international company.
Of course, i doubt he will call for elections anytime soon.
Don't Tread
May 1st, 2012
9:47 am
Obama didn’t think the CEO of GM was fit to lead a few years back and had him canned. Don’t be surprised if Fox loses its broadcast license rather abruptly…
rightwing troll
May 1st, 2012
9:47 am
“The only toxicity I see here is the rambling of narcissistic liberals who have nothing but failed economic agendas.”
As compared to what? The extremely successful economic agenda of Obama’s predecessor?
ty webb
May 1st, 2012
9:48 am
So they just criticized him…absent of criminal charges against him personally, what else can they do? Nothing.
mona Lawrence
May 1st, 2012
9:49 am
It is going to be interesting to see if it seeps into the US. If hacking and bribery are an issue there the chances of it here are PRETTY GOOD.;-).
rightwing troll
May 1st, 2012
9:49 am
Rupert is free to run whatever company will have him. What should be stopped is his legalized bribery, purchasing and subjugation of government officials and policy.
mm
May 1st, 2012
9:49 am
Now if we can just get Fox News shut down so it won’t poison the minds of our less fortunate.
Mighty Righty
May 1st, 2012
9:49 am
For those of you on the left who are in denial that the WSO vagrants and the communist party goals are not one and the same. Reprinted from the “New American”
Call for May Day Offensive Reveals Communist Direction of Occupy Wall Street Movement
William F. Jasper | Apr 4th 2012 | Occupy Everywhere
The New American
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators may have lost some of their headline cachet over the past few months, but they are aiming to reclaim the limelight with a revitalized “Occupy Spring” campaign, with special emphasis on a major May Day offensive on May 1 that includes calls for a “general strike” nationwide.
MAY DAY 2012
OCCUPY WALL STREET STANDS IN SOLIDARITY
WITH THE CALLS FOR A DAY WITHOUT THE 99%
WHEREEVER YOU ARE
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO HOUSEWORK
NO SHOPPING
“ON MAY 1, 2012,” the flyer goes on to state, “Millions of people throughout the world — workers, students, immigrants, professionals, houseworkers — employed and unemployed alike — will take to the streets to unite in a General Strike against a system that does not work for us. Don’t go to work. Don’t go to school. Don’t shop. Take the streets!”
New York’s leftwing Village Voice notes that “Occupy Wall Street’s May Day organizers [are] … working with the May Day Coalition, whose massive 2006 Day Without Immigrants rally effectively revived the observation of May Day in New York.”
The “May Day Coalition” the Voice refers to is actually the MayDayNYC group that put out the above-mentioned general strike flyer. And MayDayNYC is just another name for the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, which is headquartered at 55 West 17th Street, #5C, New York, NY 10011. Which just happens to be the same address as the International Action Center (IAC) — and the same address as the Workers World Party (WWP), a revolutionary communist party with its own peculiar Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist ideology and party line. Not only do all the above-mentioned groups occupy the same address, but all are run pretty much by the same Workers World Party staff. Which is another way of saying that the organizations are merely fronts for the WWP.
Recon 0311 2533
May 1st, 2012
9:49 am
Wow Jay, a British panel? We’re awe struck…well some of us aren’t.
Butch Cassidy
May 1st, 2012
9:49 am
Wait, I don’t recall hearing that on FOX this morning. All I got was a bunch of stories and commentary about Obama using Bin Ladens death for political gain. Strange.
Steve - USA (I support "None Of The Above")
May 1st, 2012
9:50 am
(ir)Rational -
I hear what your saying, however I listened to an explanation this morning that “fit” has a special meaning and that not being “fit” means you could lose your right to the public airwaves.
I am not going to lie to you. I have no idea if that is really true or not.
mm
May 1st, 2012
9:50 am
Lookie how the wingnuts feverishly defend this POS.
rightwing troll
May 1st, 2012
9:50 am
Faux News losing it’s broadcasting license would be the best thing for you wingnuts, it would force you to think for yourselves for once…
Jay
May 1st, 2012
9:51 am
“And that matters exactly how? If I own a company, and a governmental body tells me they don’t think I’m fit to run the company, do you really think that is going to change my opinion of whether or not I’m going to run the company?”
Well, if the company in question has been demonstrated as engaging in a pattern of bribery of public officials, blackmail, invasion of privacy, destruction of evidence, withholding evidence, lying to law enforcement and Parliament and other crimes, then yes, (ir)Rational, I would think it DOES matter.
Recon 0311 2533
May 1st, 2012
9:51 am
The left fears Fox News and with good reason as they expose Obama and his far-left Democrats for what they are.
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
9:51 am
Don’t Tread – I think a big difference there was the government had a pretty big ownership stake in GM. They may have felt obligated to do as they were told.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 1st, 2012
9:52 am
Recon 0311 2533
May 1st, 2012
9:49 am
Scout,
It seems to me that moral wrongdoing doesn’t bother you as long as it doesn’t affect you. Is there a Bible passage for that?
Road Scholar
May 1st, 2012
9:54 am
No! say it ain’t so!
They BOTH suck
May 1st, 2012
9:54 am
ir(Rational)
British Government can make Murdoch sell his stake………
Will they do it is another matter, but they can force him to do so…..
So if you are Murdoch and his son, it matter a lot
Butch Cassidy
May 1st, 2012
9:55 am
Recon – “The left fears Fox News and with good reason as they expose Obama and his far-left Democrats for what they are.”
Yes, nothing strikes fear into me quite like a gaggle of bleach blondes in short skirts and stripper heels trying to convince me that should take them seriously as anything more than eye candy.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 1st, 2012
9:55 am
Recon 0311 2533
May 1st, 2012
9:49 am
No, Fox news distorts, makes up stuff and will do anything to make President Obama and the democrat Party look bad. Everybody should fear a pathological liar. Anyway Fox news is just another Murdoch Hooker…
carlosgvv
May 1st, 2012
9:55 am
When will our Congress have the courage and truthfullness of the British Parliament and denounce the corrupt leaders on Wall Street and in Big Business as not being fit to exercise stewardship of major international companies?
They BOTH suck
May 1st, 2012
9:55 am
“The left fears Fox News and with good reason as they expose Obama and his far-left Democrats for what they are.”
What have they exposed that was not on another channel?
Opinion and commentary?
Jay
May 1st, 2012
9:55 am
As to what the Brits can do about it, they can potentially do quite a bit. Broadcasting licenses, criminal prosecutions, huge civil and criminal financial settlements … the leverage to force a change of leadership under these circumstances, given the panoply of charges against News Corp., is actually quite significant.
Recon 0311 2533
May 1st, 2012
9:57 am
Of course all the false reporting and failure to report on the part of the MSM is moral. Talk about hypocrisy.
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
9:57 am
Steve – That could have some effect. Still not sure it would matter to me if I OWNED the majority of the company. Oh, and it is an American company also, so again, not sure how the British Government feels they have that type of control.
Jay – Once again, he owns the largest percentage of the voting shares of the company. So, is he going to vote himself out? Short of them bringing charges against him, this is largely just for show. At least that is how I’m reading it.
martin the calvinist
May 1st, 2012
9:57 am
If Murdoch is guilty in having knowledge of illegal wire tapping then he should be punished. That is a violation of the law. But I’m sorry liberals hate Fox news only because they have commentators who criticize the President. None of the other major networks criticize the current President as frequently or as hard as Fox does. The other networks were very hard on W., and in many instances rightly so, except the parts where they wished he would be killed or when they called him stupid and uneducated….
ty webb
May 1st, 2012
9:57 am
liberals on liberal blog arguing that conservatives on the same liberal blog are close minded and only get their “news” from Fox….hmmmmm.
rightwing troll
May 1st, 2012
9:58 am
I for one lose no love for the OWS crowd. It ain’t my fault they sat in their mom’s basement for the last 10 years calling texting, playing Call of Duty online, and Facebook a “social life”. All the while failing to avail themselves of the remarkable opportunities in this country to learn marketable skills.
If these whelps have no social skills, very few marketable skills in this changing economy, and their prospects are bleak, it’s mostly their own damn fault.
Blindly raging against the machine and offering no solutions while destroying public property is not how one changes the system. Most of them look like they just came from a Phish concert and just why would they expect any respectable company to hire a tatted up, pierced, unkempt looking clown?
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
9:58 am
TBS – How can the British government force a private citizen to sell their stake in an American company?
Steve - USA (I support "None Of The Above")
May 1st, 2012
9:59 am
“Yes, nothing strikes fear into me quite like a gaggle of bleach blondes in short skirts and stripper heels trying to convince me that should take them seriously as anything more than eye candy.”
Butch’s War on Beautiful Woman.
j/k
Jay
May 1st, 2012
9:59 am
Here in the USA, Fox News has no broadcasting license. It’s a cable outfit, remember. It does have local broadcasting affiliates, but I doubt they’re in any danger from this.
News Corp’s biggest exposure on this side of the Atlantic would involve use of such illegal tactics within US borders or targeted at US citizens, for which there are allegations but not yet much if any evidence; and potential action under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids US companies to use bribery in overseas operations.
rightwing troll
May 1st, 2012
10:00 am
“Yes, nothing strikes fear into me quite like a gaggle of bleach blondes in short skirts and stripper heels trying to convince me that should take them seriously as anything more than eye candy.”
You must be referring to the weekend hosts, that chick that’s on Mon-Fri morns is a bit of a wildebeest…
Butch Cassidy
May 1st, 2012
10:00 am
ty webb – “and only get their “news” from Fox….hmmmmm.”
I never said they only get their news from FOX. Making that statement would infer that I consider FOX to be a legitimate “news” source.
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
10:02 am
Butch – I still watch Food Network for my eye candy, but I have occasionally paused on Fox for the same purpose.
Jay
May 1st, 2012
10:02 am
As ABC News reports:
“The report is worrying for Murdoch because the committee used the very words from the British Broadcast Act that are used to determine suitability of ownership of a TV license. Murdoch already controls 40 percent of Sky TV here and had wanted to take over the whole company.
That venture had profit of $1.7 billion in 2011 and now Murdoch may be forced to give it all up.”
They BOTH suck
May 1st, 2012
10:03 am
ir(rational)
You seem to be a smart guy….. Go look up BSkyB and get back to me…..
The answer to your question will be there…..
Butch Cassidy
May 1st, 2012
10:03 am
rightwing troll – “You must be referring to the weekend hosts, that chick that’s on Mon-Fri morns is a bit of a wildebeest…”
LOL, check out Fox and Friends First from 5-6 am. I doubt it was a mistake to design a set comprised of 2 computer tables and two high chairs with no desk, and then plant two women in short skirts in the middle.
barking frog
May 1st, 2012
10:03 am
The Brits deal with the
press and corporations far differently than the US.
This will have consequences.
ty webb
May 1st, 2012
10:03 am
Butch,
and yet you missed my ” “’s around News.
Butch Cassidy
May 1st, 2012
10:05 am
ty webb – “Butch,
and yet you missed my ” “’s around News.”
Sorry ty, I actually meant to put a smiley after my comment.
Steve - USA (I support "None Of The Above")
May 1st, 2012
10:06 am
ABC News read my 9:50 post.
~This post certified for accuracy by the WPA – World Posters Association~
Recon 0311 2533
May 1st, 2012
10:07 am
Doesn’t appear that the OWS losers are having much impact on their May Day celebration.
Mighty Righty
May 1st, 2012
10:08 am
I don’t know whether Rupert Murdoch is guilty of anything or not. If he is he should be punished. But this whole thing is eerily familiar. In this case it is a business refusing to cooperate or with lying to a governemnt agency to cover up wrong doing. This sounds a lot like Eric Holder, Barack Obama and the congressonal investigation into the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent by illegal guns provided by the Holder Obama government to drug dealers under a program code named “Fast and Furious.” Refusing to turn over evidence and lying under oathe. “Their instinct throughout was to cover up—–” Sure sounds familiar. “In failing to investigate fully the (substitute Justice Department) willfully ignored evidence of widespread wrong doing….” In the Fast and Furious fiasco, the perps were transferred and promoted!!!!! Rupert Murdoch, like Erik Holder and Barack Obama should be punished, if guilty. At least Murdoch fired the people who worked for him.
Butch Cassidy
May 1st, 2012
10:08 am
Steve USA – “Butch’s War on Beautiful Woman.”
LOL, nothing against the “Foxettes”, I just prefer to keep my news outlet and my soft core outlet separate.
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
May 1st, 2012
10:08 am
“No, Fox news distorts, makes up stuff and will do anything to make President Obama and the democrat Party look bad.”
Just like this P0S Doocy that just made up his on “paraphrasing”….
“Appearing to read from a script that misquoted Mr. Obama, Mr. Doocy said to Mr. Romney, “He had some fiery rhetoric pointed at you yesterday. He said, ‘Unlike some people, I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth.’”
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/fox-news-host-corrects-obamas-silver-spoon-quote/
They BOTH suck
May 1st, 2012
10:10 am
ir(Rational)
To assist you………
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/01/world/europe/uk-phone-hacking/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
It would be BskyB not News Corp from wich Murdoch could be forced to divest……. which could start to untangle his media empire in the UK
As you can plainly read I never said sell his stake in News Corp, that was your assumption.
But it’s ok
They BOTH suck
May 1st, 2012
10:12 am
“unravel” probably a better choice of words as opposed to “untangle”
kayaker 71
May 1st, 2012
10:12 am
Man, Bookman, you sure have a way about only telling half of the story. Although the present government in the UK is conservative, the UK Parlimentary Committee which issued this edict is composed of 6 liberal labor members and 4 conservative members. The vote concerning Mr. Murdoch was strictly along party lines. All four conservative members voted against the resolution while all of the labor members voted for it. Louise Mensch, one of the prominent conservative of the committee stated that the part regarding Murdoch not being fit to run a news service was too much of a stretch to have any credibility. This whole thing is like having a Congressional Committee composed of 6 Democrats and four Republicans having a vote on an issue and you know how that would turn out. So tell the whole story here……. your cherry picking is getting in the way again.
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
10:13 am
TBS – Yeah, silly me, just going off what Jay’s original post was about. Sheesh, I’ll have to stop that.
Recon 0311 2533
May 1st, 2012
10:13 am
Mighty Righty, Don’t hold your breath waiting for Jay to focus ‘Fast and Furious” as a topic.
Mary Elizabeth
May 1st, 2012
10:16 am
Regarding Murdoch’s downfall – what had been done in secret, simply became known.
To quote the words of MLK, as they apply regarding Murdoch’s downfall, and as they will apply, in the future, to those who have maligned through deliberate, malicious propaganda, believed by many:
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 1st, 2012
10:17 am
Fast and furious was started by President bush, wasn’t it? Loved the movie though…
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
May 1st, 2012
10:18 am
“Mighty Righty, Don’t hold your breath waiting for Jay to focus ‘Fast and Furious” as a topic.”
CONs be so caught up behind fast n furious, its too funny….We still waiting on those WMD clowns.
Steve - USA (I support "None Of The Above")
May 1st, 2012
10:19 am
I have stated my disdain for nicknames but I admit I saw one this morning that made me laugh.
Mitt Robme
Alright…..back to my disdain of nicknames.
curious
May 1st, 2012
10:20 am
Operation “Wide Receiver” was President Bush’s version of “Fast and Furious”. Same MO.
They BOTH suck
May 1st, 2012
10:22 am
ir(Rational)
I never take Jay’s or anyone else word that what they type or say is the entire story, plus he or anyone else can only get so much info within any given article……….
We can debate if any “info” was left out, whether it was done on purpose or not, but in the end, there is only so much Wingfield, Krauthemmer, Bookman, or anyone else can place in an editorial
But that is just me
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
10:25 am
TBS – I wasn’t debating that he left it out, I was just talking about what he was talking about. I was seriously trying to understand how what he British government thought about the person that ran an American company (and that is at least part, seemingly a big part since they focused on News Corp in their statement) mattered even a little bit.
Union
May 1st, 2012
10:26 am
so.. to bring this to a conclusion.. the brits say murdoch cannot run a business because of mistakes.. they must think the same about obama?
obamas buddy corzine misplaced 1.6 billion? but the govt has yet to seen an issue with that.. maybe thats why obama is still taking money from him..
go brits..
getalife
May 1st, 2012
10:28 am
Good riddance.
Ayn Rant
May 1st, 2012
10:29 am
Murdoch has taken over and trashed several of the world’s leading newspapers, including the Times of London and the Wall Street Journal. He also publishes several trash tabloids. Worst of all, he owns FoxNews, the ubiquitous Republican propaganda outlet.
Pox on ‘em, and all unconscionable foreign moneyrakers!
Cosby
May 1st, 2012
10:30 am
Yea, lets shut FOX Broadcasting down in the US…then we have only the klikes of the AJC to spew the news and their biased reporting. I vote to tell the cox family they are not worthy to run any news outfit!!
Paul
May 1st, 2012
10:31 am
Guys like Murdoch don’t give up power without a fight.
They also know a losing hand when they see one.
getalife’s 10:28 summed it up nicely. Time to take the wife on the cocktail circuit.
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
May 1st, 2012
10:32 am
Five arrested in Cleveland bomb plot: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Authorities have arrested five self-described anarchists in Cleveland for allegedly plotting to blow up a bridge but the group was monitored as part of an undercover FBI operation, a U.S. Justice Department official said on Tuesday.
Verbal Kint
May 1st, 2012
10:33 am
Jay said: “Well, if the company in question has been demonstrated as engaging in a pattern of bribery of public officials, blackmail, invasion of privacy, destruction of evidence, withholding evidence, lying to law enforcement and Parliament and other crimes, then yes, (ir)Rational, I would think it DOES matter.”
Kind of like NBC’s edit of the Zimmerman call, huh Jay?
mm
May 1st, 2012
10:35 am
Of course all the false reporting and failure to report on the part of the MSM is moral. Talk about hypocrisy.”
Sure, the only true news is on Fox. Yeah, right.
Cons just can’t figure this out. One network has a different take on every subject. The others are pretty much the same on every subject. Think about that. Instead of blaming the other networks for being protective of Obama, maybe, just maybe, Fox News is trying to make him look bad.
RB from Gwinnett
May 1st, 2012
10:36 am
Mm “Now if we can just get Fox News shut down so it won’t poison the minds of our less fortunate.”
Spoken like the true communist you are at heart, mm.
kayaker 71
May 1st, 2012
10:36 am
Bookman makes it seem like this was a consensus opinion by all of those in the British Government when in fact, the statement was made by the labor portion of a committee which was opposed by it’s conservative counterpart. This is far from a consensus opinion, although the story is told so as to have the reader believe that it is. Yesterday Bookman maintains that Victor Davis Hanson is some sort of conservative hack because he states that corporations are sitting on gazillions of dollars of cash and today he would have you believe that the entire British Government wants Murdoch to lose his company. And telling half of the story makes you credible? Man, Bookman, you are on a roll.
Jay
May 1st, 2012
10:37 am
Right, Verbal, those are EXACTLY alike …. < sarc >
A long-term criminal conspiracy to wiretap, bribe, blackmail and coverup is exactly analogous to a mangled quote.
Not defending the mangled quote, by the way. It was bad journalism, just as Fox’s invention of Obama’s “unlike other people” silver-spoon quote was bad journalism.
But to try to equate one to the other? That’s as lame as, well, Verbal Kint.
Thomas Heyward jr
May 1st, 2012
10:41 am
Tell me again what a triple-A rating is good for? Not a whole lot, if one of the iconic triple-As in American industry, General Electric, has to go hat in hand to the federal government for a $182.5 billion bailout.
.
What’s Immelt up to?
Pushing propaganda on NBC.
.
Nothing to see here.
Move along now.
.
LOOK…….there goes a Murdoch.
RB from Gwinnett
May 1st, 2012
10:41 am
It funny listening to idiots who get their news from MTV claiming FOX News isn’t legit. Do you tools even know bill Mahre is a comedian and not a news anchor?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 1st, 2012
10:42 am
“Mayday, Mayday, Mayday” !
mm
May 1st, 2012
10:44 am
“Spoken like the true communist you are at heart, mm”
Thank you, comrade.
“It funny listening to idiots who get their news from MTV claiming FOX News isn’t legit. Do you tools even know bill Mahre is a comedian and not a news anchor?”
Who’s the idiot? Maher is on HBO.
Jay
May 1st, 2012
10:44 am
kayaker, you somehow fail to mention that the report was also supported by the centrist Liberal Democrat on the panel, which is the party in alliance with the Conservatives that keeps the Conservatives in power under the British system.
It’s also impossible to pretend that Murdoch bears no responsibility for and had no knowledge of a broad, long-term criminal conspiracy of this sort, with top executives including his son and his top protege deeply involved in both the scandal and the coverup. Even some of the Conservatives who voted “no” aren’t defending Murdoch; they’re merely saying such a conclusion was outside the purview of the committee.
In the end, that was a minority opinion.
ragnar danneskjold
May 1st, 2012
10:45 am
Too bad the British do not have a First Amendment – can you imagine the reaction in the US if politicians tried to demonize a news company.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 1st, 2012
10:46 am
Very Interesting …………………………..
Headline: “A beating at Church and Brambleton”
http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2012/05/beating-church-and-brambleton
P.S. Lock & Load
Jm
May 1st, 2012
10:46 am
Zzzzzzzzzzz
Government can prosecute him for crimes if it wants
Government has no business deciding who is or isn’t fit to lead a company
Oscar
May 1st, 2012
10:47 am
News Corporation is a publicly traded company, not owned by Murdock, although his family is the largest single stockholder, they are far from owning the majority of the stock.
Shareholders could force him out or the board of directions could.
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
May 1st, 2012
10:50 am
“It funny listening to idiots who get their news from MTV”
??
ragnar danneskjold
May 1st, 2012
10:54 am
Leftists have been doing everything they can to silence the voices on the right – demonizing Fox News, demonizing Rush Limbaugh, even some quarters trying to paint a false picture of the WSJ. Yet each continues to hold the largest audience in its category, by a wide margin. Suggests the people are too wise to be fooled anymore. Seemingly it is only the leftist media that fail in America.
Matti
May 1st, 2012
10:54 am
Why does Murdoch get away with this garbage? Because he knows the truth about modern men:
“We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don’t concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy’s name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.” — Tyler Durden
Oscar
May 1st, 2012
10:57 am
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 1st, 2012
10:46 am
Very Interesting …………………………..
Headline: “A beating at Church and Brambleton”
http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2012/05/beating-church-and-brambleton
P.S. Lock & Load
————
He got out of his car to confront a gang of 100 people throwing rocks at his car. Better to put it in drive, run the red light and get out of there.
A man should know his limitations.
Union
May 1st, 2012
10:58 am
starting to notice a trend here.. just like the obama campaign.. the ajc and other liberal media outlets are jumping on the train of.. “look at what they did” instead of “look what we have accomplished”
ragnar danneskjold
May 1st, 2012
11:00 am
Dear Union @ 10:58, agree. Leftist grasp at straws when their policies – Stimulus, ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank – so visibly fail and damage the country.
Oscar
May 1st, 2012
11:01 am
Union
May 1st, 2012
10:58 am
_____
It’s election year. That’s the way it works. Has since John Quincy Adams was president and Andrew Jackson was running.
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
11:02 am
Oscar – That is very true, if you’re going to stay, lock the doors and call the cops, don’t get out to confront that many. I mean, there are obvious exceptions, if you’re Batman, The Hulk, Superman, ect then by all means, go right ahead.
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May 1st, 2012
11:05 am
Oscar:
“He got out of his car to confront a gang of 100 people throwing rocks at his car. Better to put it in drive, run the red light and get out of there.
A man should know his limitations.”
Very true but you miss the greater implication.
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
11:06 am
Being what? That people are stupid?
getalife
May 1st, 2012
11:07 am
willard crying about our President getting obl is hilarious.
Jay
May 1st, 2012
11:09 am
Leftists have been doing everything they can to silence the voices on the right – demonizing Fox News, demonizing Rush Limbaugh, even some quarters trying to paint a false picture of the WSJ.
I am amazed at the continued defense of what News Corp. has actually been doing in Britain.
They have been hacking the private voicemails of private individuals, including the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and publishing them. They have been bribing cops, including detectives at Scotland Yard. They have been using private data obtained illegally to blackmail politicians into doing their bidding. They have destroyed documents and lied about what they were doing. They have violated the privacy of families who have been the victims of vicious criminals.
And yet you folks try to dismiss this as some kind of liberal conspiracy against Murdoch? Really?
In the immortal words of Joe Welch, “Have you no sense of decency,at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” You’re actually willing to defend or dismiss all this, because you think he’s on YOUR side?
It’s all pretty disgusting to me, both as a professional journalist who loves this craft and as a human being.
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May 1st, 2012
11:13 am
Can anyone say “Dan Rather” ?
(ir)Rational
May 1st, 2012
11:13 am
Jay – I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I’m not trying to defend News Corp or anyone else, I’m just saying the British government seems to be over reaching a bit saying that he isn’t fit to lead the company. That is my personal opinion.
As far as what they’ve done goes, it is disgusting, and I would think criminal charges should be brought against all parties involved. Both the people at News Corp that were perpetrating the crimes, and the officers they were bribing to look the other way.
Rightwing Troll
May 1st, 2012
11:14 am
Yeah I remember Dooby… sorry… Doocie when he talked about the “inadvertent” outing of Valerie Plame… He’s an idiot, a liar, and a Faux News hack/mouthpiece…
Matti
May 1st, 2012
11:15 am
Mr. Bookman,
That the Rand cultists have no sense of decency is not a new revelation. You’ll only frustrate yourself if you expect that reasoning with them will make a difference. If they had a sense of decency to which we could appeal, they wouldn’t be Rand cultists.
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May 1st, 2012
11:15 am
(ir)Rational :
“Being what? That people are stupid?”
No ………………. the difference in what happened in the Rodney King incident (riots) vs. what happened after the O.J. acquittal (no riots).
Now ……………. regarding a possible Zimmerman acquital ?
Lock & Load