Anyone who is the owner and publisher of newspapers like The Sun (in the UK), The New York Post (in New York) and The Daily Telegraph (in Sydney) has to be questionable. And then the same owner also has that awful Fox News in his stable too. Who? None other than Rupert Murdoch, the person in effective control of the News Limited media empire.
Perhaps, now at last, with the latest revelations of News Limited having been involved in hacking in the UK, Murdoch and his media empire will be relegated to where they have always belonged - at the bottom of any credible media organisation.
"It has many villains and one or two heroes, while its chief victim lies cocooned from the shock that has winded even the world-weariest media cynic like a kick to the solar plexus. But the story of Milly Dowler's mobile phone speaks of infinitely more than the posthumous violation of a murdered schoolgirl by Rupert Murdoch's demons and the visceral revulsion that this has induced.
This is an amorality tale of systemic corruption as insidious, deep-rooted, all-embracing, diseased and destructive as any known to a modern Western democracy. To understand how it came to this – how prime ministers and our premier police force became the enablers of News Corporation's abundant wickedness – you must go back several decades."
Continue reading, here, to see how Murdoch got himself so well positioned in the United Kingdom. Take a bow Margaret Thatcher!
Perhaps, now at last, with the latest revelations of News Limited having been involved in hacking in the UK, Murdoch and his media empire will be relegated to where they have always belonged - at the bottom of any credible media organisation.
"It has many villains and one or two heroes, while its chief victim lies cocooned from the shock that has winded even the world-weariest media cynic like a kick to the solar plexus. But the story of Milly Dowler's mobile phone speaks of infinitely more than the posthumous violation of a murdered schoolgirl by Rupert Murdoch's demons and the visceral revulsion that this has induced.
This is an amorality tale of systemic corruption as insidious, deep-rooted, all-embracing, diseased and destructive as any known to a modern Western democracy. To understand how it came to this – how prime ministers and our premier police force became the enablers of News Corporation's abundant wickedness – you must go back several decades."
Continue reading, here, to see how Murdoch got himself so well positioned in the United Kingdom. Take a bow Margaret Thatcher!
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