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By the looks of things, the horse in question is actually Pegasus and is currently flying across the Atlantic. If they tie News Corp to 9/11 victims, it is game, set and match. Brooks will only be the first big name with reputation in tatters.[/QUOTE]
There’s also a chance of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act being called in as there were bribes to cops and other officials. Although a US talking head was saying on the TV this morning that that was unlikely unless there is a lot more instances found or the cases are bigger than we think now. Both options are very possible IMO as Pandoria’s box is only still half open I reckon. There’s still lots to come out about this and not just in relation to the NOTW.
I dunno. I think the story is getting big enough, even in the US, that if they didn’t prosecute, people are going to be asking why. The whole 9/11 angle is enough to get people baying for blood.
Under Bush, it would probably have been swept under the carpet, but I can also imagine there are a lot of people within the Obama administration who would love to give Fox News a bloody nose.
Perhaps facing some jail time might induce her to testify. Before she quit it was said that Murdoch kept her on to be one layer between him and the scandal.
I’m from Europe (continent). I’ve heard a lot about Fox (especially here at the SDMB), but never seen a longer part of their news coverage. I still was warned. But this is un-be-fuckin’-lievable. You’ve got to get rid of this scum, just like the U.K. (perhaps they are doing it now).
The message was amusing (paraphrased), “We should move on. They’re doing all the right things. Rupert Murdoch is appearing before Parliament. This all happened a long time ago.” Never mind that Murdoch declined to appear before Parliament until he received a summons, and waited a long time before he fired Rebekah Brooks.
From the Fox and Friends report: ‘Murdoch has apologised, but for some reason, that’s not enough.’
Hahahahaha! Next time I commit a major crime I’ll just say sorry and expect that to be enough. After all, why are you having a go at me when CANCER still kills people? Do you want people to die of cancer? You do, don’t you?
Oh, oops! Did I kill you with my knife? I’m SOOOO sorry! My bad. Besties?
Crimes were committed, and an investigation needs to be done into Murdoch’s complicity in those crimes, and Faux Noise thinks an apology is enough? They’re just phoning it in these days on the “fair and balanced” thing.
This is what’s bemusing me about Murdoch’s increasingly frenzied and desperate attempts to close this down. The UK has announced a judicial enquiry,there are ongoing police investigations, he and his people are never going to get the same access to UK politicians :- does he really think any of that is going to change or stop because he prints an apology, or people resign ?
This is going to go on for years, and is going to go on for years no matter what Murdoch does.
Even after two weeks the public anger is barely abating and I don’t think I’ve seen such a coherent response from everyone I speak to. Hardly anyone thinks this is the end.
With more and more revelations to come and potential criminal and civil cases galore it will definitely get much messier.
And I wonder why the reaction is so strong? Is it due to a collective shame that we’ve lined their pockets for so long? Has there been a distaste for tabloid journalism amongst the silent majority and here is a golden chance to make it heard? an opportunity to do what many of us have always wanted and get rid of scummy journalists.
Could this be a matter of national pride (perhaps with a hint of xenophobia for a small minority)? A lot of commenters in newspapers seem pissed off that a foreigner have been virtually in control of the UK political discourse for so long.
Would it be different if Murdoch were one of your own?
Well there’s always been a degree of resentment that a foreign owner could have such excessive control of our media to push his own political and economic agendas. I’m not sure I’d call it plain old xenophobia, I think it’s a perfectly natural reaction – the idea that he doesn’t live here and so doesn’t give a shit about the mess he leaves in his wake.
Of course, he’s now American and I don’t think the anger at Murdoch is any less here because he’s “one of our own” as opposed to that there hasn’t been as much info yet. Of course, if we get rid of Murdoch too he’ll just get dumped back onto Australia, which would probably be happy to find a way to dump him on New Zealand as soon as possible.
I think Murdoch was Australian long before he became American.
It’s taken a long time for the phobia to surface if that is the case (which I don’t believe). A number of UK insitutions are owned by people of foreign background. (I’m thinking Harrods which is still pretty popular).
You snuck in there Asterian. I don’t think we can offload Murdoch onto NZ unfortunately. His father was a well known Australian war correspondent during the Great War.
I think most people in the UK think of him as Australian before American.
The particular resentment against Murdoch as a foreigner media mogul is because he is seen as a political interferer (Since 1979, not a single Party or Prime Minister has been elected without the support of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers) and cultural bulldozer (eg the destruction of Fleet Street in the 80s, the creation of a two tier class system in football thanks to Sky etc). Foreign owners aren’t disliked, just the ones that come and trample over us with such apparent disdain.