The media titan Rupert Murdoch sought to stanch damage to his News Corporation empire from a deepening phone-hacking scandal on Thursday by sacrificing the mass-circulation British weekly The News of the World, even as the arrest of one of the paper’s former editors, Andy Coulson, appeared imminent. The paper will publish its final issue on Sunday.
The saga turned yet more disturbing Thursday with suggestions that the paper had broken into the voicemail not only of a 13-year-old murder victim but also of relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the paper had paid tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to police officers for information.
In the past 10 days, Fox has run more than 30 segments calling for the nonprofit group to be stripped of its tax-exempt status. Its Fox Nation website has even provided a link to pre-completed complaint forms against Media Matters to send to the Internal Revenue Service.
How long until the heavily doctored Breitbart tapes of pimps in Media Matters offices hit? How long until the Washington Post ombudsman scolds the librul media for failing to pay sufficient attention to these doctored tapes?
Future historians will wonder why the United States and United Kingdom allowed an Australian eccentric to take control of their political systems. Some contemporary bloggers will never address this question.
When I saw this yesterday, I assumed it was serious.
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