Suck it Rupert!!

POSTED BY: Calhoun
UPDATED: Saturday, July 30, 2011 09:02
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CALHOUN

Sunday, July 17, 2011 1:22 AM

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

TWO

Sunday, July 17, 2011 1:43 PM

Rupert Murdoch is played by Hugh Laurie in this parody of "It's a Wonderful Life."

Imagine a world where Rupert Murdoch, the owner of FOX, was never born. If that was this world, does anyone believe Firefly could only have been made with Rupert's money? That Rupert's patronage was essential? That the sneak didn't kill Firefly in a snit, then coverup?

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

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, July 17, 2011 3:56 PM

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.

Which of course, leaves me out, but that flag is for others to carry.

-Frem

TWO

Monday, July 18, 2011 1:46 PM

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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.

Rupert is following groundwork laid by Rupert.

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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
s-that-money-cant-dispel.html

Or to paraphrase Jayne Cobb: Cash can buy a heap of 'let bygones be bygones.' I'll forgive Rupert Murdoch if he transfers all rights to Firefly to a charitable organization that Rupert also endows with $655 million to increase knowledge of Firefly cultural history and heritage. Joss Whedon would be named the next president of the new Firefly Foundation. www.fireflykidz.org/

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

ZEEK

Monday, July 18, 2011 4:16 PM

What do you have against Giles!?

Oh different Rupert. Carry on.

TWO

Monday, July 18, 2011 4:41 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
What do you have against Giles!?

Oh different Rupert. Carry on.

Giles does shares some blame if he ever read (not even buy) a copy of the News of the World, at least according to Andrew Sullivan's understanding:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/07/enhanced-journalistic-
techniques.html

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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.

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

TWO

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:22 AM

News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead - www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare

Regardless of what the police find in their investigation of this stunning development in the phone hacking scandal, it's going to be difficult not to wonder whether Mr. Hoare was done in by someone with something to hide.

Even if there is a logical explanation for Hoare's untimely death, a cloud of suspicion will always hang over Murdoch & Co. Such is the price that Rupert Murdoch is paying for the highly unethical conduct of his minions and the culture of skullduggery that was in play in his media companies.

If only the police would investigate into who at FOX ordered Firefly killed by assigning it to the Friday night death slot. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_night_death_slot#Fox_and_Fridays

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

SIMONWHO

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:05 PM

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.

TWO

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:39 PM

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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.

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

WHOZIT

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by two:
Quote:
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.
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

Get the facts right you dimwit, Murdoch's wife beat the crap out of the attacker and hit HIM with the pie. You libs are enjoying watching your whores in the MSM beat up an 80 year old man who may be innocent. I'm sure this crap is giving everyone at MSNBC the cutest little boners....even Maddow

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