Murdoch: Ouf! Is this meltdown?

[amateur51]

Culture Media & Sport Select Committee stick it to Murdochs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9238718/What-does-the-Select-Committee-report-mean-for-Murdochs-empire.html

Nice summary of likely implications for Murdochs from solicitor Mark Lewis

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9238730/Hacking-report-a-serious-blow-for-the-Murdochs.html

Other news sources are available :laugh:

[mangerton]

Culture Media & Sport Select Committee stick it to Murdochs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9238718/What-does-the-Select-Committee-report-mean-for-Murdochs-empire.html

Nice summary of likely implications for Murdochs from solicitor Mark Lewis

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9238730/Hacking-report-a-serious-blow-for-the-Murdochs.html

Other news sources are available :laugh:

I'm sorry you brought that to my attention, am51. I'll lose sleep tonight worrying over the Murdochs.

[Lateralthinking1]

Culture Media & Sport Select Committee stick it to Murdochs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9238718/What-does-the-Select-Committee-report-mean-for-Murdochs-empire.html

Nice summary of likely implications for Murdochs from solicitor Mark Lewis

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9238730/Hacking-report-a-serious-blow-for-the-Murdochs.html

Other news sources are available :laugh:

Am51, Thank you for your coverage of this subject since the beginning. I certainly took more notice of it as a consequence.
A good outcome. Those comments about "wilful" sound spot on. Unfortunately being made of individuals, the Empire can still strike back though. Elizabeth will probably be in charge. There are a lot of loose ends. What of Coulson, Rebekah and all of the politicians and police who were in one way or another embroiled? That includes Cameron and Osborne. With hindsight, the only decent one in the Murdoch family was Dickie. He could make people laugh rather than himself having a laugh over everyone else, Lat. :smiley:

[mercia]

With hindsight, the only decent one in the Murdoch family was Dickie.

indeed, and Iris left an interesting body of work too

[MrGongGong]

indeed, and Iris left an interesting body of work too

Murdoc Niccals has some interesting riffs

[Lateralthinking1]

Good points. The problem, I think, is the were-dragon side of the family. Feel free to Google "Murdoch were-dragon" for details.

[eighthobstruction]

It has seemed strange to me, that there has been no forensic scrutiny at the Leveson Enquiry ref Rupert Murdoch's email trail....everybody elses emails have been the better part of evidence produced....?????

[amateur51]

Oh this looks a very tasty development ....

A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation's 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/rupert-murdoch-fox-licences-us

[Mr Pee]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/old-bastard-attacked-by-useless-shower-of-piss-201205025183/

:laugh::laugh:

[amateur51]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/b...-201205025183/

:laugh::laugh:

That creative outburst must make Ian Hislop & Private Eye directors feel very ... safe :smiley:

Abysmal stuff :whistle:

[Mr Pee]

That creative outburst must make Ian Hislop & Private Eye directors feel very ... safe :smiley:

Abysmal stuff :whistle:

You might think that, Amateur, but I found it highly amusing, based as it is upon fact, and exposing yet more hypocrisy within the Labour Murdoch lynch-mob: the fact that MPs such as Tom Watson consider themselves fit to judge Rupert Murdoch as being unfit to run the company that he has built from nothing is laughable. I wouldn't trust Watson to run a pick n' mix stand:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179989/MPs-Expenses-Tom-Watson-spent-M-S-store-gave-pizza-wheel-free-gift.html

Anyway, I get the feeling you must be at a loose end these days, given the amount of time you expend scrutinizing the Leveson pantomime, so I thought this might enable you to make more constructive use of your time:-

http://www.theartsdesk.com/arts-jobs/project-assistant-sky-arts-ignition-series-tate

A job in the Arts, which wouldn't even exist were it not for Sky. Just up your street, I would have thought.......:winkeye:

[ahinton]

Pie in the Sky, anyone?

(Or maybe even Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, for those ancient enough to remember that?)...

[teamsaint]

You might think that, Amateur, but I found it highly amusing, based as it is upon fact, and exposing yet more hypocrisy within the Labour Murdoch lynch-mob: the fact that MPs such as Tom Watson consider themselves fit to judge Rupert Murdoch as being unfit to run the company that he has built from nothing is laughable. I wouldn't trust Watson to run a pick n' mix stand:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179989/MPs-Expenses-Tom-Watson-spent-M-S-store-gave-pizza-wheel-free-gift.html

Anyway, I get the feeling you must be at a loose end these days, given the amount of time you expend scrutinizing the Leveson pantomime, so I thought this might enable you to make more constructive use of your time:-

http://www.theartsdesk.com/arts-jobs/project-assistant-sky-arts-ignition-series-tate

A job in the Arts, which wouldn't even exist were it not for Sky. Just up your street, I would have thought.......:winkeye:

A job which wouldn't exist..........bit like all those jobs that tesco "create" when they open up a megastore, and close down all the other shops in a town?

As for murdoch creating his company out of nothing..........i think you probably meant "created on the efforts and energy of others, including the football supporters from whom he has stolen the national game(unless they want to give him £45 a month)."

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Pie in the Sky, anyone?

(Or maybe even Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, for those ancient enough to remember that?)...

i can recall with intense and accurate recall the inhalation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yDl0qPfkSRw

[Mr Pee]

A job which wouldn't exist..........bit like all those jobs that tesco "create" when they open up a megastore, and close down all the other shops in a town?

As for murdoch creating his company out of nothing..........i think you probably meant "created on the efforts and energy of others, including the football supporters from whom he has stolen the national game(unless they want to give him £45 a month)."

Well, if you can point me in the direction of an arts sector job that has been lost as a result of Sky's investment in the Arts, then please do. :erm:

As for your second paragraph, all companies depend on the efforts and energy of others, don't they? Whether it be the shelf-stacker at Tesco or the managing director. They also succeed because they market a product for which consumers are willing to pay- BSkyB have just posted increased profits, and nearly 700,000 new subscribers over the past year.

As for the "National Game", I assume you mean the premiership, now probably the leading football league in the world, with plenty of people willing to pay. And if they don't want to, there is no shortage of pubs that show every game- and perhaps, if they are serious supporters, then they'll be paying a heck of a lot more than £45 per month to go and watch the games for real anyway. Sky didn't steal the Premiership. just as they didn't steal F1 from the BBC. They put in a bid which the BBC chose not to match. It's called market forces.