Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 11:30 am
murdoch lives an onion article on international television
Murdoch Attached With Plate of Shaving Foam at Parliament (No, This Is Not From the Onion) (Guardian)
More: LA Times
suzvoy apparently saw it live. This is a day in history. I am at work and so video is denied me. Dammit.
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roguesgalley is looking for a summary piece on the Murdoch situation to start with; does anyone have a good link to something along those lines?
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califmole: Phone Hacking: What's It All About? (CNN)
teneagles: Interactive Timeline (Guardian) - Awesome.
jujuberry136: Who's Who Interactive (With Relationship Mapping!) (Guardian) - has corruption ever looked so technologically disturbing in breadth and influence? With neat lines between the players!
jujuberry136: Jon Stewart Tackles the News of the World Scandal
legionseagle: has posts here, here, and here with more Murdoch information. Thank you for posting those!
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From:(That was a deeply boneheaded protest, and I am not surprised that UK Uncut, who he says he's from, are leaping to distance themselves from him. I don't care what they have done, physically attacking an 80 year old man is not on. Especially not when he is already hanging himself!)
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From:In a weird way, I'm disgusted at the protest partly because this whole thing is actually kind of too serious for that sort of rubbish.
That and, no, really, if you're going to do that kind of thing, your target should be James. Partly because he's not so very, very old, partly because unlike Rupert he's not particularly repentant, but mostly because it's almost certain, to my mind, that James did know about this and Rupert didn't.
Rupert Murdoch is a reasonably horrible person, but he's also an old-fashioned newsman. His soul, if he still has one, is in newspapers. This kind of thing would, I think, be unthinkable for him.
Whereas James Murdoch is... well, what you get if you start with a Rupert, and then subtract all the vague approximations of positive qualities Rupert retains.
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From:The BBC is bbc.co.uk but they didn't have it last time I looked.
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From:*purr*
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From: (Anonymous) Date: 2011-07-19 09:01 pm (UTC)The main players: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12296392
(the Victims section has been expanded to s separate page just today)
Q&A: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11195407
Timeline: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14124020
The Guardian and The New York Times have several other excellent articles and summaries.
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From:Classics so far have included:
'To Hack, or not to hack, that is the question'
'Is this a blagger I see before me?'
'remorse, remorse, my kingdom for remorse'
'Now, is that Hinton of ours discontent'
'Much Ado about Hacking'
'two tabloids, both alike in filth, in fair Wapping here we set our scene'
'false face must hide, what false heart doth know'
'For Murdoch, is an honourable man, as are they all- News Corp- all, honourable men'
Many quotes from the most quoted plays- Hamlet, MacBeth, Romeo & Juliet...
Stuff like this was being tweeted all weekend. Hours of entertainment!
Yinka
PS God Bless the New York Times, and the Guardian for getting all this rolling again.
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