"The Murdoch family gave as good as they got during yesterday’s Commons select committee hearing into what they knew (or didn’t know) about the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed their empire. What had been billed as a merciless grilling of Rupert Murdoch, the world’s most powerful media tycoon, and his son, James, was an engrossing affair." (Telegraph, UK)
Former UK politician Dennis Healey's phrase comes to mind about being 'savaged by a dead sheep'. And as for the Telegraphy's idea of a 'merciless grilling'; well it would have got them fired from the Union of Spanish Inquisitors. Half the world's cables and mobile satellite dishes seemed to have been employed, with the hacks all but creaming their jeans over the so called 'engrossing affair'. For most ordinary working 5 to 9ers the price of tripe is more griping. And anyway, what's new about wire taping, phone-hacking and the boss not knowin' nut'in'. There's always been fat brown envelopes passed under tables if deemed to be worth the risk of getting a juicy story. It was all so puke provoking watching the media overdose on gravitas, hype and hypocrisy; scribbling below madam guillotine in a flight of phony morality and not so secret delight at Murdoch & Murdoch's humble pie picnic.
It's just one old fox's empire having been found with their undies around their ankles; and next week with a bit of luck it will be some other media glass house that cops for a well placed brick.
