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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

I ain't fond of Rupert either, but I don't think it can be dismissed so easily that he was only following up on the previous groundwork laid by William Randolph Hearst, either.

And no doubt some other cretin will take up the banner if Rupert is cast down, as well - the only real manner of addressing this is to fight their behavior with reason, logic and truth, while setting a better example.

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Even as the flames of the scandal begin to edge closer to Mr. Murdoch’s door, anybody betting against his business survival will most likely come away disappointed. He has been in deep trouble before and not only survived, but prospered. The News Corporation’s reputation may be under water, but the company itself is very liquid, with $11.8 billion in cash on hand and more than $2.5 billion of annual free cash flow. . . .

Time and again in the United States and elsewhere, Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation has used blunt force spending to skate past judgment, agreeing to payments to settle legal cases and, undoubtedly more important, silence its critics. In the case of News America Marketing, its obscure but profitable in-store and newspaper insert marketing business, the News Corporation has paid out about $655 million to make embarrassing charges of corporate espionage and anticompetitive behavior go away. . . . www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/business/media/for-news-corporation-trouble
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Originally posted by Zeek:
What do you have against Giles!?


Oh different Rupert. Carry on.

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It's worth noting that the Great British Public were not exactly up in arms about Prince Charles's fate - or that of any others - until the minute they realized that phone hacking might actually happen to them. It was only when members of the general public were targeted by this criminality that the outcry broke through the white noise. Before then, the News of the World was selling 2.7 million copies on Sunday out of a population of 70 million, and Rebekah Brooks was threatening many who dared question it with personal destruction as well. Imagine a US paper selling the equivalent - 11 million copies on a Sunday - and you see the scale of the sleaze, and the power. They were all in on it. And very few people in Britain can really be shocked at what we now know.

But shocked they pretend to be; as genuinely shocked as when they find out a famous footballer screws around on his wife. It really is a strange culture: completely unshockable and yet prepared to adopt utterly false shock to provide a patina of morality for what is essentially prurience and titillation. I'm sorry but the Great British Public is as complicit in all this as any member of their political/journalistic elite.

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
Watching him being grilled by MPs as I type. No-one has asked him why Firefly was cancelled yet but it's surely just a matter of time.

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
Watching him being grilled by MPs as I type. No-one has asked him why Firefly was cancelled yet but it's surely just a matter of time.

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Rupert Murdoch attack video: Media mogul hit in face with 'foam pie' - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14209268

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Then again, the devil is in the details. My guess is that Rupert was not fond of the politics in Firefly; namely the little guy as hero and the big nasty-wasty corporation as the evil empire, feverishly plotting to rule the world.

Nah, that couldn't be it!

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Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
"...to fight their behavior with reason, logic and truth, while setting a better example."

Looks like Hoare took up that flag.

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Originally posted by Calhoun:
I am really enjoying watching the demise of Rupert Murdoch unfold! Could'nt happen to a nicer guy

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