The New Dark Age

16 July 2011 — williambowles.info

16 July 2011

Murdoch apology in press adverts
BBC News Today at 05:13
Rupert Murdoch takes out national press adverts to apologise for the phone hacking by the News of the World, as two of his most senior aides resign.

Australia and the Dirty Digger: The Phony Populism of Rupert Murdoch
The Greanville Post Today at 03:18
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By JEFF SPARROW
Murdoch and accomplice, Brooks, until recently CEO of Newscorp.
It’s been fascinating to watch from Australia as the News of the World scandal engulfs Britain.

Advice on how to survive a Parliamentary grilling
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at 00:53
Bamboozle the committee with new evidence, learn how to blink like a human and make sure to shed a few tears – The Independent’s panel of experts have invaluable advice for Rebekah Brooks and the Murdoch father and son if they want to emerge from Tuesday’s Parliamentary grilling with their reputations enhanced.

Twin resignation blow for Murdoch
BBC News Today at 00:37
Two senior executives of Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire quit, as the phone-hacking scandal brings its first resignation in the US.

Why Rupert had to get rid of his loyal lieutenant
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at Midnight
Why now? James Murdoch had promised she would stay to see this through. Rupert Murdoch had placed his hand on her back in a public show of support and said she was his top priority. And then, all of a sudden, she was gone.

US lieutenant falls on sword to protect jewel of News Corp empire
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at Midnight
Within hours of Rebekah Brooks tendering her resignation as head of News International, her predecessor Les Hinton, one of Rupert Murdoch’s closest lieutenants in the United States, fell on his sword, saying the pain that his reporters had inflicted on innocent people was ‘unimaginable’.”

The MPs against the Murdochs: countdown to epic battle begins
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at Midnight
They have three rules: sort the questions in advance, appear statesmanlike and do not let the Murdochs off the hook.

Revealed: Cameron’s 26 meetings in 15 months with Murdoch chiefs
The Independent – Media RSS FeedToday at Midnight
The scale of private links between David Cameron and News International was exposed for the first time last night, with the Prime Minister shown to have met Rupert Murdoch’s executives on no fewer than 26 occasions in just over a year since he entered Downing Street.

Margaret Drabble: Now we have the chance to purge ourselves of insidious shame
The Independent – Media RSS FeedToday at Midnight
The most astonishing feature of the past week’s astonishing events has been the shock, surprise and disgust expressed by so many in public life, all of whom knew perfectly well what had been going on for years and years under Murdoch’s rule.

Brooks out and Murdoch humbled on day of atonement
The Independent – Media RSS FeedToday at Midnight

Rupert Murdoch, the world’s most powerful media tycoon, held his head in his hands last night as he offered a humble apology to Milly Dowler’s family for the hacking of her phone by the News of the World.

After 52 years, mogul’s ally quits to protect jewel of US empire
The Independent – Media RSS FeedToday at Midnight
Within hours of Rebekah Brooks tendering her resignation as head of News International, her predecessor Les Hinton, one of Rupert Murdoch’s closest lieutenants in the United States, fell on his sword, saying that the pain his reporters had inflicted on innocent people was ‘unimaginable’.

15 July 2011

Sex. Drugs. Cheating. Lies. Tabloids USA.
Russiatoday.ruYesterday at 22:01RT
Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper hacking scandal has taken over both American and British media headlines. Could this type of embarrassment happen in the US? If you think not, you might be living under a…

The Sun enters frame as Jude Law makes new hacking claims
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Yesterday at 21:23
For the first time, The Sun newspaper was last night dragged into the phone-hacking scandal after it emerged that the actor Jude Law is suing Rupert Murdoch’s best-selling daily title over the alleged interception of his voicemails while Rebekah Brooks was editor.

Jude Law to sue The Sun over alleged hacking
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Yesterday at 21:23
The Sun newspaper was tonight dragged into the phone hacking scandal for the first time after it emerged that the actor Jude Law is suing Rupert Murdoch’s best-selling daily title over alleged interception of his voicemails while it was being edited by Rebekah Brooks.”

McHistory: Fox Launched to Counter Nonexistent Leftism of MSNBC
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Yesterday at 21:18Peter Hart
The headline of Al Neuharth’s column in USA Today (7/15/11) summed up his case: ‘Murdoch Media Give You What You Want.’

How Has Murdoch Improved With Age? By Russ Baker
William Bowles.info Yesterday at 19:23InI
Here’s an old article that WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker wrote about Rupert Murdoch, the media titan whose News Corp is currently the focus of so much controversy. This ran in the Columbia Journalism Review in 1998. But it is useful for comparing the company’s (non-hacking) practices, then and now.

The Power of Pinot Grigio
Craig Murray Yesterday at 19:18 craig
After five years of heated blogging, I take a couple of days off to watch golf and down many a litre of pinot grigio, while sticking up some wind-up posts about abolishing the BBC and Jane Goody accents. The result? Rebekah Brooks falls, Murdoch teeters and the horrid nest of corrupt cop liars are in trouble.”

Murdoch says sorry to murdered girl’s parents
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 18:59RT
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has apologized to the parents of Milly Dowler, whose phone was hacked by his journalists. He is also said to have bought full-page ‘We are sorry’ ads in British newspapers.

Murdoch lobbied for lax bribe laws, 9/11 investigation continues
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 18:59RT
Things aren’t getting any better for Rupert Murdoch. As new reports surfaced today against him, yet more scandal is being pinned on his News Corp. media empire, including now a bribe involving News Corp, the Chamber of…

‘Shaken’ Murdoch in Milly apology
BBC News Yesterday at 18:25
A ‘humbled and very shaken’ Rupert Murdoch apologises to the family of Milly Dowler in a meeting in London, as executive Rebekah Brooks resigns.

VIDEO: Dowlers get ‘full and sincere’ apology
BBC News Yesterday at 18:04
The family of murdered school girl Milly Dowler have met Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corporation.

Murdoch’s News Corporation: crime, corruption and class rule
Links – International journal of socialist renewal Yesterday at 17:45normd
July 14, 2011 — Socialist Resistance — On Sunday, July 10, 2011, that bastion of scandal-mongering populist reaction in Britain, the News of the World (NOTW), departed this earth writes Piers Mostyn.

Union leader: Murdoch to blame for cuts
Morning Star Yesterday at 16:46
NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet drew a direct link today between compulsory redundancies at the BBC and the malign influence of Rupert Murdoch on the government.

FBI starts phone-hacking investigation
Morning Star Yesterday at 16:39
The FBI and other agencies are investigating allegations that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp attempted to buy access to the mobile phones of victims of the September 11 2011 attacks, US attorney-general Eric Holder confirmed today.

Lavery: Clean out Murdoch’s cesspool
Morning Star Yesterday at 16:36
Destroy the monstrous Murdoch empire and its murky Establishment cesspit – that was leading left Labour MP Ian Lavery’s message today.

Murdoch to apologise in national newspapers:
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Yesterday at 16:03
Rupert Murdoch will use adverts in national newspapers tomorrow to apologise for the News of the World’s ‘serious wrongdoing’.”

Murdoch Has Blood on His Hands
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 16:00 David Swanson
Nailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees’ phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I’d be glad to see it happen but there’d still be something perverse about it.

Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity: On the Recuperation of the News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 16:00 Stephen Harper
It’s useless to react to the news of the day; instead we should understand each report as a maneuver in a hostile field of strategies to be decoded, operations designed to provoke a specific reaction.

Media Warfare and Everyday Life
Atlantic Free Press – Hard Truths for Hard Times Yesterday at 15:36 editor@atlanticfreepress.com (Chris Cook)
by Bruce Campbell Ph.D.
In the U.S., Rupert Murdoch’s global News Corporation owns The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, the New York Post, MySpace.com, Barron’s, TVGuide, HarperCollins Publishers, and 20th Century Fox, to name just a few of its extensive holdings.”

Neither fit nor proper
Morning Star Yesterday at 15:31
No more credibility should be attached to Rebekah Brooks’s professed regrets for the victims of News International’s lawless rampage than to Rupert Murdoch’s assertion that his company handled the crisis ‘extremely well.’

Avalanche! Media Hyperbole On News Corp, The ‘Free’ Press And A ‘Berlin Wall Moment’
William Bowles.info Yesterday at 12:30 InI
There’s no doubt that a body blow has been delivered to Rupert Murdoch’s mighty News Corporation empire. Leading politicians, who until very recently had been both obsequious and fearful, now want to put themselves at least a bargepole’s length away from the media mogul.

Rebekah Brooks: High flyer who flew into a storm
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Yesterday at 10:40
Rebekah Brooks devoted more than half her life to serving the British arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation empire.