Carl Bernstein writes: "And then there's the other inevitable Watergate comparison. The circumstances of the alleged lawbreaking within News Corp. suggest more than a passing resemblance to Richard Nixon presiding over a criminal conspiracy in which he insulated himself from specific knowledge of numerous individual criminal acts while being himself responsible for and authorizing general policies that routinely resulted in lawbreaking and unconstitutional conduct."
Rupert Murdoch, after purchasing News of the World in 1969. (photo: The Times UK)
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If you or I did it, we would be in hot water. Criminal charges. Maybe prison time. Fines. And civil suits from those showing injury.
But here's today's solution: Get a corporation to do it. Then, if it's discovered, blame and punish underlings. Fire them. Fake agreement that the acts were disgraceful. Apologize.
Corporations shield. Corporations influence. Corporations rule.
And there is a move now toward weakening even the weak regulations and regulators that we have.
I hope he meets the same fate as Hitlers henchmen did at Nuremberg.
Vote with your dollars to make America they way you want it to be. Watch and read the other guy's side no matter how distasteful and make lists of the advertisers. Let them know that their products will not be bought by you or any other person you can convince until they stop advertising in media with which you disagree.
If you want to boycott fox's sponsors, there are about 100 of them.
My idea has always been to pick on ONE at a time. Tell Keith Olbermann to pick a weak sponsor and broadcast a mass boycott to all non-fox watchers in America. If that sponsor starts to feel the heat, they'll back out. Then do it to someone else. Pretty soon all of them will start to worry.
Then again, would fox news go off the air if it was commercial free? I kinda doubt it.
At any rate, shouting "boycott" is one thing. Actually DOING something to effectively TURN IT OFF, is another.
Just reminder: The New York Post reported on July 2 that DSK’s accuser had worked as a prostitute — a piece that triggered an immediate libel suit from the woman. For its salacious bit of reportage, the newspaper relied on a single, anonymous person, identified as “a source close to the defense investigation.”
Looks like Murdoch's tabloids in New York are more CORRUPT than crap in London.
This would be the best news I've heard in my entire life INCLUDING when they came out around Christmas a few years ago and said dark chocolate was actually GOOD for you!
Of course the only thing that would REALLY fix this permanently would be LEGISLATION by American politicians ensuring that this kind of influence can never be had by any unelected political RACKETEER again.
I want to see bill o'really sharing a cell with sean hannity. Of course mann coulter could still visit her bitches on CON-jugal visits.
This one big fish has poisoned the waters of the whole media world. The News of the World was a blot on the press - three cheers for its demise. I fear it is a dodge to cut costs – soon we’ll see a Sun on Sunday. We pay a terrible price for our freedom of the press and people like him have taken us to a disgusting gutter press publications.
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