Amy Goodman: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie

[marmar]

from truthdig:




Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie

Posted on Jul 19, 2011
By Amy Goodman


“People say that Australia has given two people to the world,” Julian Assange told me in London recently, “Rupert Murdoch and me.” Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, was humbly dismissing my introduction of him, to a crowd of 1,800 at East London’s Troxy theater, in which I suggested he had published perhaps more than anyone in the world. He said Murdoch took that publishing prize.

Two days later, the Milly Dowler phone hacking story exploded, and Murdoch would close one of the largest newspapers in the world, his News of the World, within a week.

On Tuesday, Murdoch claimed before the British House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport that it was his “most humble day.” But what does it mean for a man with no humility to suffer his most humble day? The principal takeaway from the committee hearing must be, simply, that Rupert Murdoch is not responsible for the criminal activities under investigation, from police bribery to phone hacking. When asked if he was ultimately responsible, his answer was simple: “No.” Who was? “The people I trusted to run it and maybe the people they trusted.”

The monosyllabic denials stood in stark juxtaposition to his rhetorically nimble son, James Murdoch. Frequently reminding the committee that he was not present at News of the World during the dark days of hacking and bribing, James used more words to say essentially the same thing: I know nothing. ............(more)

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[Stuart G]

1. k and r

[deminks]

2. Murdoch never had a humble day in his life, yesterday included.

That was all consultant-speak. They got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, with the expected deflection of guilt. "Who, me?" "I'm respectable!" "I'm the real victim here!"

As the pie-thrower shouted at Rupie, "You're a naughty billionaire!"

[Tippy]

3. Very true.......After all he has enough to buy them all off.

[Hotler]

4. k&r for Amy. n/t

[classysassy]

5. Murdock the man of no morality

must pay for his crime,he must do the time.If he is given a slap on the wrist and let go to cause more harm around the world,what will the average man/woman think about justice in the world?Will this one e vil,greedy man cause a revelution or will the courts do their duty and put him away?Justice or an uprising around the world?