# Every Empire Crumbles to Dust.  Is it Murdoch's Turn?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-empire-crumbles-to-dust-is-it-murdochs-turn/589188>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 15, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-empire-crumbles-to-dust-is-it-murdochs-turn/589188 "2011-07-15T22:30:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Profound\_Gibberish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Profound\_Gibberish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profound_Gibberish)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-empire-crumbles-to-dust-is-it-murdochs-turn/589188/1 "2011-07-15T22:30:12Z")

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Pretty sleazy stuff he and his cronies have been doing for years and years and years.

Apparently his newscorp has a deep pocket with lots of public officials feeding from it.

So, is this the begining of the end?

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-empire-crumbles-to-dust-is-it-murdochs-turn/589188/2 "2011-07-15T23:00:32Z")

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I so fucking hope so. I want him and every person who has suckled at his Devil’s teat to die horrible deaths.

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**Author:** ![Profound\_Gibberish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Profound\_Gibberish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profound_Gibberish)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-empire-crumbles-to-dust-is-it-murdochs-turn/589188/3 "2011-07-18T21:26:31Z")

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An empire crumbles and only one response? Really. (And Thanks **selinus** )

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**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-empire-crumbles-to-dust-is-it-murdochs-turn/589188/4 "2011-07-18T21:51:32Z")

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I don’t think this is the end as much as a small bump in the road.

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**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-empire-crumbles-to-dust-is-it-murdochs-turn/589188/5 "2011-07-18T22:03:32Z")

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The consistent lies that come out of News Corp and all its subsidiaries make me hope that this is their comeuppance, but I have no faith left in the justice system of this country or the UK that this will happen. More of the witnesses against them will have unexplained deaths and it will go away. This is a vast criminal enterprise with probable cause to believe widespread “wiretapping” and wholesale blackmail with respect to powerful politicians. All Washington knew that Hoover was doing that, but they never tried to take him down, they waited until he died. They will all cover for Murdoch now. He’s just too dangerous to them.

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**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-empire-crumbles-to-dust-is-it-murdochs-turn/589188/6 "2011-07-18T22:03:48Z")

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Check [the](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=616662)[Pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=615018)