Deepening Troubles for the Murdoch Empire
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-07-19/deepening-troubles-murdoch-empire
Britain's phone-hacking story is rapidly evolving. At the center are charges News Corp. reporters in the Murdoch media empire broke laws to scoop the competition. It's not clear who knew what, but the widening scandal has shut down Britain's most-popular tabloid - News of the World – and toppled top executives and police officials. Britain's prime minister called an emergency session of parliament to hear testimony today from Rupert Murdoch and other News Corp. executives. And here in the United States, the FBI is investigating allegations Murdoch reporters sought a way to hack into the phones of relatives of 9/11 victims. Guest host Steve Roberts talks with media experts about the ongoing investigation into News Corp. and the implications for Murdoch's U.S. holdings.
Guests
Clive Crook
Washington commentator, Financial Times; senior editor, Atlantic Monthly.
Tom Rosenstiel
director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
James O'Shea
former editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times; former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune; author of a new book, "The Deal from Hell."
David Folkenflik
media correspondent at NPR News.
Comments
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WillT26 wrote:
"Finally it is perfectly ok to disagree on these things but claiming to know the motives of another person, without knowing them at all, is not beneficial for anyone- it is arrogant. I don't know why you are the way you are (and I don't care) but I find it offensive that you think you can bully people."
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Who is this person whose motives I claim to know? Odd that you consider posting comments as "bullying." Perhaps that is how you characterize any opinions that do not echo your own.
monte wrote:
"cicero, lots of good comments and comebacks. Especially liked the pointing of the ultra liberal Steve Roberts liberal fish wrap books being published by one of Murdoch's companies.'
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You had to know that the Murdock scandal would be cat nip for those with FOX News derangement syndrome. And yet there has not been anything in this scandal that directly relates to FOX News.....Well, that really doesn't concern James O'Shea or David Folkenflik.
cicero,
There is no cure for your kind of crazy. You are the worst kind of liberal- the kind that attacks people for their opinions and belittles them because they do not agree with you 100%. Take your commie socialist bull crap elsewhere.
You know it is sad the paid fascist trollism being exhibited on Diane Rehm's commentary in defense of an accused criminal conspiracy. There is much more to media concentration than making a profit. The media billionaires at the top have formed a union with all the arms billionaires, nuke billionaires, manufacturing billionaires, food conglomerate billionaires and speculative billionaires. These perverts trade favors in exploiting and cheating the rest of us and covering one another's crimes. The American Spring is budding. Fascists will be surprised when the People occupying DC after Oct. 5th are wise to their propaganda. It is sick the way ciceronis loiter beneath Rupert's urinal waiting for trickle down. All concentrated media is colluded and corrupt and it was only crude and blatant excesses that gave us a window on the inner workings of Fox/NewsCorp. We see that David Cameron, Tony Blair, W Bush, the Clintons, Romney and Obama are really reality show contestants and that Oligarchy awards the prizes. Don't vote for these night crawlers.
"monte wrote:
cicero, lots of good comments and comebacks. Especially liked the pointing of the ultra liberal Steve Roberts liberal fish wrap books being published by one of Murdoch's companies.
July 19, 2011 - 1:00 pm"
WOW!!! You people really are nuts!
Roberts and his Girlfriend Mara Eliason are two of the MSM most right wing NYC, NeoCon, Dogcrap, they just don't drool while they are sniping at Democrats and Liberals.
As to "Liberal" NPR, they dumped the Black Fox Guy, who wasn't too bad, and kept Eliason who is 110% Vixen.
Listen to the Second Hour and witness Roberts ecstatically contemplating the possibilities of Nuking Pakistan back to the Stone Age and killing millions of Hadjis.
The original and only true Monte,
Monte Haun
I don't think anyone here is defending criminal activity, we are just putting all this in it's proper perspective. I do not have an agenda to discredit by pretending something is more serious than it actually is. I feel confident that justice will be done here.. If Murdoch is found to be at the heart of this scandal I certainly would support criminal charges against him and the punishment that goes along with it.
monte, the one with the better posts!
"Hacking" appears to be something the Murdoch empire is quite proficient at. This is their Modus operandi, not just for news, but also for business practices. This is an interesting read of how they do business:
"Time and again in the United States and elsewhere, Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation has used blunt force spending to skate past judgment, agreeing to payments to settle legal cases and, undoubtedly more important, silence its critics. In the case of News America Marketing, its obscure but profitable in-store and newspaper insert marketing business, the News Corporation has paid out about $655 million to make embarrassing charges of corporate espionage and anticompetitive behavior go away."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/business/media/for-news-corporation-tr...
Of course, you won't hear this on the "fair and balanced" network, just the "liberal" media.
Robin Shoulders wrote:
"I believe FOX is insidious, I'm Canadian and I'm glad that we don't have a propaganda and misinformation machine the way the U.S. has. His warped influence is too great in America esp. when one man can buy and hire all the politicians that preach his message."
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Now that is priceless from a Canadian whose country's idea of freedom of expression is to prevent British MP George Galloway from entering the country, and on the other side of the spectrum, would not allow
Ann Coulter to speak at the University of Ottawa. How could the U.S. ever compete with the Canadian government propaganda machine?
BTW: The general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association proudly characterizes Canada as a "pleasantly authoritarian country."
Monte:
I see you edited your original post that contained the criticism of Iris’ post, which was what elicited my response (I think she called in and was on the show today, no?) Appreciate you doing that. (I didn’t even realize editing your own comment was possible- learn something every day). Your original response to Iris saying, I believe, also contained some blatant criticism of DR show. Here Iris is expounding the benefits of public radio and hearing you tearing it down every day, struck a bit of a nerve for me. Hey it’s a free country, but if you are going use this resource posting comments so much (such as full page add other day) maybe you ought to consider supporting NPR once in a while??, especially when you seem to have $ to burn.
I would guess you think that the media in this country is in general liberal- I would contend the opposite. How do you explain that although polls reflect that over 70% of Americans (including majority of GOP, if what I understand is true) believe that the wealthy should shoulder a greater tax burden, you hardly ever hear anyone who represents that position from any outlet, much less NPR? If 70% of country believes something, don’t you think it might follow that at least half of “talking heads” at media outlets might make some kind of effort to see that view is represented? Especially at such a critical time when representing that view might actually help inform the debate?
We obviously have two different world views. You say Iris is pushing an agenda- my view is Murdoch has agenda- and one which is far more threatening than Iris‘.
Monte- “As for saying something positive I cannot remember you saying anything that would be considered positive or ‘fair and Balanced‘”. I think stating the truth is being fair and balanced- Does that mean I am the sole possessor of the truth and all others are morons. No. I do a lot of research time-permitting , but I am capable of letting my passions take over when I feel the “truth” is not being fairly represented (Now that I know comments can be edited maybe I can work on that)
This subject and your “good intentions comment”- reminds of the quote by W’s brother Jeb: “The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now. You can't deposit the truth in a bank. You can't buy groceries with the truth. You can't pay rent with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross all the way to the homeless shelter. And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really interested in the truth about their government can support people who would tell them the truth, you got another thing coming. Because the million or so people in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have any money.”
Here I am worrying about truth, defending NPR, and working my silly 8-6:30 job; and meanwhile your at home (apparently) making 6% gains on News Corp.
Who’s world view is more practical? Later
The next day monte claimed to be a toilet scrubber in a low income housing complex.
Many contradictions and few answers, but incessantly repeated talking points and racist bloviation. Who is monte? Is he for real? Where is he blogging from? How does he have so much free time to write and none to research? Is he paid? Who pays monte? Is he worth it?
In the media we are never told how celebrities and politicians get their money. We only get the press release. I hope monte and I are both more than a press release. monte seems to be the sound of Liberty gnawing off her own trapped leg, from the jaws of corporate crony capitalism.
(I didn't know Jebby was a modern day Joe Goebbels, Drew Kelly. Thanks. Do the rich write history or build a memory hole?)