Good luck to the old shit, he’ll just find out we need soap in the next shopping list.
It’s wonderful to see the Murdoch press squirm uncomfortably as they get caught out. But that’s all it is, uncomfortable. They shut down News Of The World. Now that Gordon Brown has belatedly outed The Sun and the loathsome Rebekah Brooks for demanding the exclusive on his destined-to-die-slowly son, they might shut that down too. Murdoch gives not a damn; newspapers make no money, shut them down and roll half the workers into some other diseased organ. Easy. Just so long as they get control of the TV.
Thing is, no one cared until the tapping was done to the same ‘victims’ that the News Of The World used as prole bait over its sorry existence. This outrage is just a redirection of the same whipped up by News against liberals, towel heads and dole bludgers – good to see it spin around and attack its owner but this is not any revolutionary advance of the human spirit.
So long as people are fed on shit and find it tasty, News International will win out. After a bit of shameface, they’ll horse whisper the government, the police (it seems pretty easy to heavy the UK police), there will be a white out followed by a juicy war or two. And everything will go back to normal.
Oh there will be tweeting, so very much useless tweeting. The greater public will give not a damn. Because frankly they have always fed on shit and found it tasty. Right back through the Penny Dreadfuls and the dirty bits in The Bible. News Limited has just been more efficient in filling the trough.
Really when you learn that Rebekah Brooks was a close friend of Brown’s wife, and that Andy Coulson worked for David Cameron you are reminded that these people are all inbred. They’re the same extended family that have always run things, and will go on running things. Because you can’t leave that to the great unwashed.
(I was tempted to make a comparison with the family intrigues of World War One, but realised that leads to the depressing “Donkeys led by bigger donkeys”.)
In Australia, the News organs claim to be filth free. And are in fact reporting on the fracas reasonably, even coming up with analysis of Murdoch’s decision not to divest Sky News, delaying the sale of BSkyB for months giving both News and Cameron a bit of breathing space. After all they’re mates.
I suspect that here as it’s in the World section no one will read it, especially when Lady Ga Ga has arrived for two ‘completely unexpected’ live dates in Sydney, met by officials ‘completely surprised’ to have the meeting scheduled and performed at a club that had absolutely no idea that such an event was booked. Every newspaper was thrilled to report this act of sheer spontaneity.
Leaving Rupert buried.
