Is Rupert Murdoch’s Empire Crumbling?
For most of us MySpace was the place to be. We enjoyed the interaction with friends and acquaintances. It crumbled after News Corp took control.
These last few weeks his media empire in the UK has come under investigation for phone hacking. Several thousand people’s phones appear to have been hacked by and for his media empire in the UK. He has shut down a major Sunday paper in an effort to cut the losses. It has not worked as now his attempt to take over BSkyB is on hold and will probably be blocked.
Should an investigation be launched to determine if this is going on here in the USA by Fox and his other media outlets? Is it by chance that he employed evil people who broke the law in the UK or is this how he does business?
We can hope can’t we? 😉 Under conservative/corporate leadership this country no longer has watchdogs with teeth. You can bet Murdock’s empire has been up to no good here as well. Not to mention the narrowing and silencing of so many media voices.
Evil Fucker!
I read a few years ago, that NewsCorp was sued by a rival company for employing hackers against their website. Newscorp had to pay a settlement.
There was a case where Fox News hired some people to do investigative journalism, and they did. They found some corporate abuses, and Fox News fired them when they refused to edit their work to show an opposite conclusion. It went to court and the journalists lost, establishing a precedent that Fox News wasn’t required to broadcast things which were true.
There’s a documentary about it, but I don’t remember the name at the moment. In any event, we see a clear pattern of criminality coming out of Murdock’s organizations, and that can only be coming from the top. I sure would like to see an FCC investigation with teeth.
Now a very odd thing I noticed, was that during the 2008 election, that the right wing conspiracy theorists were all about how Fox News was a propaganda outfit furthering a government takeover. Then Barack Obama was elected, and overnight all of these same people were saying that Fox News was the only source for real news around. How did that happen, and it really was pretty much overnight?
first they strike heart of the money empire which rose sky high as once the steeples of the churches did. . . . then the banks, and with it, real estate. . . from long before that, the countryes fell away from communism. . one by one. . Capitalism on the other hand is hanging on for dear life, even though we sink deeper and deeper in debt. . and now the news media(s) begin to crumble . . even the spyes could have been planted. . the subversive servicess of those . . and oft a never know who. . pulling the srings as we continue to convulse through the constraction of being in the biggest botch up job ever tackle by creation.
if only because every view, thought and feel, before a certain stage in life. is concreted bout our sense of being from long before we can consciously weed through the what and how of it. Creation cannot judge. . it just does, thinking all is good as it plays itself out. . and until we become a transparent society . . second print media. . first Conrad Black now. . may they all shrivel way like the wicked witch of the west. . . along with our debt. . they’s just figures on papers showing how you begin screw up when milking the masses for your own gain.
Nah, I’m quite certain Murdock’s empire will run on for a long time. I never got what was the big deal about the the tabloid hacking phones and such. Seems to be that would be standard operating procedure for reporters who really want to get the story; and bribing cops and other ‘sources’, just a cost of doing business.
No matter what he does, he’ll still have a rabid legion of customers here in the US. He (along with Roger Ailes) gives them exactly what they want to hear on a daily basis. His worldwide empire might suffer a few delays and setbacks, but he’s good as gold with the fear cults here in the US.
Congress is requesting that the FBI investigate possible phone hacking of 9/11 victims.
He should be strung up for what he did to MySpace alone. 8)
High-Profile Hypocrites > http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0714/1224300711895.html