http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...n-2315449.html

it all ends!

Like many have said it will be forgotten when the next sensational story happens. As for reportage here in the U.S. it seems to be widely reported by everyone except Murdoch's news companies. It is more popular than raising the debt ceiling, and the arrest of hackers.

A few weeks ago, Murdoch, or rather the more savage tendencies of the press as a whole, represented God. Fear of God isn't always a bad thing in itself, if it keeps you on the straight and narrow – but politicians behaved like medieval villagers who didn't just believe in Him, but quaked at the mere suggestion of a glimmer of a whisper of His name. You must never anger God. God wields immense power. God can hear everything you say. You must worship God, and please Him, or He will destroy you. For God controls the sun, which may shine upon you, or singe you to a Kinnock. Soon he will control the entire sky.

http://yesbuthowever.com/two-murdoch...-dead-5000943/

First it was Big George Webley who relayed a fear of the Murdoch machine and wound up dead. Now it’s Sean Hoare. Two British media whistleblowers. Two untimely deaths.

• The hacking/bugging taking place at News Corp. businesses was far more widespread than previously known.
• Based on their dismissals from News Corp. it is shown that the hacking went far up the food chain all the way to Les Hinton, who resigned as head of Dow Jones last week.
• The police were involved, as evidenced by the resignation of two of Scotland Yard’s top cops.
• Prime Minister David Cameron’s Communication Director was a former Murdoch employee and News of the World editor.

The United Kingdom is the closest western country to a de facto police state. Surveillance cameras are everywhere. No Bill of Rights (in law or practice), and by living there you acknowledge that you are a subject of the British Crown. Britain is a great place, but it is not exactly a place where freedom flourishes compared with the United States, France or Canada.
Given the above, it is very easy to envision a scenario where the police could and would build a campaign of quiet intimidation against men like Mr. Webley and Mr. Hoare. London police were on the payroll of a Murdoch enterprise; why wouldn’t they act to protect their racket?

this thing is getting worse and worse for them by the minute.

They will ditch the Murdoch/Brooks names and install people with some kind of charitable record, but continue to run the organisation with the same level of cynicism and corruption. Everyone who accepted their publications without question is responsible for the things we've seen today, ive never trusted the Murdoch press, and now most people are feeling the same way.

The business will live on, theyll just stick the mother of a murdered child on the front page every day and expect people to accept it.

What are you going to do about it apart from being outraged by it? Nothing.

who, me?

Well i have several friends who work at Sky's HQ in Isleworth, so ive enjoyed talking to them about it, but i know that talking about my outrage to them hasnt forced them to quit their jobs and leave their kids with an uncertain financial future. Perhaps i like to hope my friends are ok rather than demanding their redundancy when they havent done anything wrong.

Perhaps contributing to the sum total of competing ideas is my goal?
Perhaps i just enjoy an arguement from time to time?

Its hard isnt it

Maybe i dont have a goal, and im just expressing my opinion?

WHAT? EXPRESSING MY OPINION ON THE INTERNET??

What a fanciful idea

Why are you putting so much emphasis on having opinions on the internet? Just curious.

Which medium are you expressing your opinions through, pray tell?

The internet, that's why I didn't need to remind you.

remind me of what porky?

Oh, nevermind.

Hello everyone. What's going on here then?

*slaps self on the head*

Watching the first series of dinnerladies again.

Good for you. I'm taking advantage of the school holidays to stay up late listening to punk rock music knowing I won't have to get up early tomorrow.

living the dream