Murdoch's minions reach a new low

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

So Rebekah Brooks got a 3mil pacifier. Best case scenario - she ends up looking at serious time 5-10 years and blows off the money to turn snitch on the promise of a reduced sentence. Front page news the next day: She commits suicide by shooting herself in the back of the head, from a distance, whilst in police custody.

The met say the death is not being treated as suspicious 

Hey now, somebody paid damn good money for them to say that!!! 

[Doktor Howl]

The met say the death is not being treated as suspicious 

Reporters just sort of cut & paste the above in every day, don't they?

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

The met say the death is not being treated as suspicious 

Reporters just sort of cut & paste the above in every day, don't they?

SSSHHHH they're too busy hacking shit to actually write something...... 

[Disco Pickle]

What is it with whistle blowers in England coming to sudden, untimely ends?

Expect a Radiohead song about it soon.

[Disco Pickle]

Someone just hit Murdoch in the face with a plate of foam.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Someone just hit Murdoch in the face with a plate of foam.

[Disco Pickle]

Someone just hit Murdoch in the face with a plate of foam.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who will think the guy is some sort of hero for the stunt but it's not very productive.

Funny though.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/19/phone-hacking-hearings.html

A U.K. parliamentary committee looking into the phone hacking scandal was briefly suspended Tuesday after someone tried to attack News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch with what appeared to be a plate of shaving foam.

Murdoch had been testifying at the hearing when a protester who had been sitting in the audience lunged toward Murdoch.

BBC political editor Nick Robinson reported that Murdoch was apparently hit with a plate of shaving foam by a man shouting: "Greedy." The protester was then struck by Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, who jumped up to defend her husband.

Police in the back of the committee room were holding an apparently handcuffed man with white foam covering his face and shirt. The foam also appeared to have spattered Murdoch.

The hearing resumed after a few minutes.

[Bruno]

How the hell do you smuggle a plate of foam?

[Disco Pickle]

It was probably an inside job. 

[Cramulus]

I'm sure there are plenty of people who will think the guy is some sort of hero for the stunt but it's not very productive.

maybe not productive in the traditional sense, but we did just witness a powerful memetic event


People like Murdoch are untouchable. He's an archon, removed from everyday life, insulated against the teeming masses. All information he receives comes through a series of filters.

This shaving cream incident was probably his first unscreened contact with the public in ten+ years.

While the event itself didn't accomplish anything concrete, it gave us a wonderful image - of this ultra-powerful media mogul (arguably one of the 10 most powerful people in the world) with pie on his face. It's a bit inspirational - fatcats like murdoch are shmucks who fuck up just like any of us. And it's important to remember that as you go about your day. The argument for the status quo is "Things are like this for a reason." Seeing Murdoch all pie faced is a reminder that "sometimes the reasons are stupid."

[Disco Pickle]

I dig your way of breaking shit down Cram.   Hadn't thought of it that way.

[P3nT4gR4m]

If it makes me laugh then I like it. The story made me laugh. That's about as deeply as I went into it.

[Cain]

Rebekah Brooks' husband was found throwing a laptop out of his house into a bin.  The police seized it.  He asked for it back.  They said "hahahahaha no".

I think the police investigating Brooks are legit.  And are going to find some mighty interesting things on that hard drive.

Also, NotW cleared their email archive.  Twice.  I expect nothing of interest from the Anonymous hack.

[P3nT4gR4m]

The stupid bastard threw a laptop where??? Doesn't he know how reporters work? If the coppers hadn't intercepted it how likely did he think it is that the contents wouldn't be splattered over the front page before the dustmen arrived to empty it?

[Cain]