Salon: Finally, Rupert Murdoch Gets His Due

[Hissyspit]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/07/13/ruper_murdoch_gets_his_due

WEDNESDAY, JUL 13, 2011 21:01 ET

Finally, Rupert Murdoch gets his due
Don't be misled by the romantic aspects of this British scandal -- it is a moral tragedy

BY GENE LYONS

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Nevertheless, the British are horrified. They're outraged about journalists bribing cops, about interfering in murder investigations, about identity theft, and about hacking thousands of cellphones, even as News International executives assured Parliament that a handful of rogue employees were involved. (News flash: Newspaper staffers can't authorize six-figure payoffs.)

Murdoch's coziness with Tory and Labour politicians alike has become a problem for him and them. See, something else people love is the vicarious pleasure of watching a coverup come undone. News International big shots are face cards, too. Prominent careers will be ruined; powerful people are going to prison.

Meanwhile, notice how studiously everybody in the United States is concentrating on the purely British aspects of the scandal? Murdoch's ruthless; he gets even. Besides, a person could end up working for him.

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Apart from having the moral imagination of a water moccasin, in other words, Rupert Murdoch's just a terrific guy.

[Snoutport]

1. Thank you!

[checks-n-balances]

2. Gene Lyons is a great columnist

He co-wrote "Bush's Brain."

Thanks for posting!

[Amonester]

3. What a surprise... Like perhaps 99% of capitalist billionaires...

murderoch doesn't care about anyone else than himself.

As long as other humans or anything can be exploited to make MORE billions...

[LetTimmySmoke]

4. Then it's on to Roger Ailes and the Koch brothers.

[rosesaylavee]

5. which would be incredibly gratifying.

Let's hope that happens.

[malaise]

6. K & R

Good read