You Can't Write This Stuff Because No One Would Believe It, Homer.

This Rupert Murdoch thing has reached unrealistic proportions today with the news that an early whistle blower to Murdoch employee shenanigans is found dead in his apt. the same day as the top two guys at Scotland Yard resign. WTF? Somebody fucked something up so badly that the top cops had to fall on their swords? That never happens and it means that there are more culpable individuals up the food chain.

What is the top? Certainly a Prime Minister but is that the end of the story in Britain at least? This is becoming too messed up to be enjoyable anymore. Maybe I don't want to know what really happens in the circles that Murdoch et. al. move within. I just know I don't want so much media power concentrated in one individual or one company.

If the Internet Age taught us anything it's that we can't trust anyone or anything to tell us the truth. Everyone has an agenda, an angle and the more voices from differing points of view that we can expose people to, the better it is for all of us. One of the failings of journalism is that such bias organizations as 'Fox News' and 'News Of The World' were allowed to do anything, even create the news, to sell newspapers. They justify their actions by claiming to be 'looking out for you', the reader of viewer.

Media is too powerful a force to be allowed to run wild. The age of ethics in journalism are long behind us. In such an environment, the worst of our natures are far too often allowed free reign - the lurid replaces the important, the sensational replaces the truth. Perception is everything and perception can be manipulated and indoctrinated if the message is repeated often enough.


Gotta give Rupert his props though. For a long time, the plan worked. It was more diabolical than anything any James Bond villain thought up on his most evil day. But then Murdoch fell to what all empires are prey to just before their downfall - HUBRIS - believing that he was untouchable and that the rest of us would go along with his methods, just because so many of us bought the trash he was selling.

A speaking of trash, I suppose it's totally innocent that outside of Rebekkah Brooks' (Murdoch's right hand woman) home, they found a thrown out laptop, phone and paperwork in a trash bin. Brooks claims that the maid threw out these items by mistake. Yes, maids are know for throwing out expensive electronics. They do it all the time.

Couldn't be that those things had incriminating evidence on them could it? And why throw things out behind your house in a public trash bin? Why not just burn them in the fireplace, rip out their hardrives or have your handlers do it.

Worse still, her husband came to the cops asking for the stuff back, claiming it was his and not his wife's. Way to send up red flags to the cops that this stuff is important to you. Way to insure that everything incriminating on those devices gets used against you. Can these people get any stupider? See what I mean about it not being fun anymore. Like shooting fish in a barrel, this story no long amuses me.