Comments on: We're all kleptomaniacs now

By: Durutticolumn

Durutticolumn — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:39:27 +0000

Bit rich this speech of Rupes coming as it did as he and all the major news organisations were dropping their pants and grabbing their ankles while being lectured to by President Hu on what the media’s job is. And I looked at Punch the other day with all its links to other publications Kleptomania or aggregation? And when he starts paying his columnists on Punch maybe we will take notice. Rupe is just trying to sucker everyone else like Fairfax to get behind the wall Such a move would kill Fairfax as at the moment it out views News.com.au on the Internet. Once he has dragged them down in the hole and thrown dirt over them he will drop the walls and hey presto he has domination. It will be a trick he will try in all major media markets. Problem will be that most of us will find we can live without News.com.au and might not be around when he resurfaces.
And look out for a coencerted attack on the ABC taxpayer funded news starting no doubt with the Australian.

By: rumrebellious

rumrebellious — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:06:38 +0000

Heh. Buckets of shit don’t know which way they are being thrown.

By: Peter Kemp

Peter Kemp — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:32:13 +0000

Plans are well underway to castrate the Beeb…

Indeed Joe2, how dare the Beeb cast freeby pearls before swine.

It doesn’t matter whether the Beeb is black or white as long as it catches Rupe’s bubonic plague

(With apologies to Deng Xiaoping)

By: Socratease

Socratease — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:12:49 +0000

AN: I like that better.

It looks as though Rupert has his mother’s genes for longevity, and I believe he considers that a blessing. However, it may well turn out to be a curse as he lives to sees his empire and former power crumble before him.

James Packer seems to be living up to the old adage of “clogs to clogs in three generations”. I wonder what Lachlan will do with what’s left of News.

By: anthony nolan

anthony nolan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:19:21 +0000

Socratease: an old Cook cartoon – Rupert’s Last Words were “sell Rosebud”.

By: Peter Murphy

Peter Murphy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:49:07 +0000

Meanwhile, one London paper is taking the exact opposite gamble to Murdoch:

The London Evening Standard newspaper will be scrapping its 50 pence cover price from today, in a move which it hopes will boost its circulation in the British capital's cut-throat newspaper environment. As it scraps its cover charge, the daily paper will boosting its print run from from 250,000 to 600,000. It's a big risk for the 180-year-old publication, but one it seems prepared to take in order to keep up with online technology.

By: Socratease

Socratease — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:42:23 +0000

I fondly foresee Rupert’s newspaper empire collapsing around him while he becomes increasingly demented, ultimately ending up in the loony bin endlessly squawking in cockatoo fashion: “Rosebud!”

By: Gang of Five

Gang of Five — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:13:06 +0000

If you knew Wendi
Like we know Wendi
Oh, oh
Oh what a gal!!

-lines on the ascent of good Chinese girl in Empire of Arch-capitalist Tycoon Plutocrat after Plutocracy Discovered Best Theme for Everyone-Good-Capitalist-Now Ten Steps Forward Campaign, Who Cares What Colour The Cat Is So Long as it Subscribes To Brother Rupert’s Pay TV?

Miaow Tse Tung,
Never a Paper Tiger
Always a Paper Kitten

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:33:04 +0000

Oh, to hell with this stinking, decrepit, ultra-right,ancient capitalist. I too hope he goes belly up. I never buy his neo-fascist propaganda now, and if I can’t read it for free in coffee shops or on the internet I won’t read it at all. The old crone is utterly deluded.

By: David Irving (no relation)

David Irving (no relation) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:25:31 +0000

Tom Paine, I think you’re exaggerating a bit. While the bankruptcy of News Ltd would certainly be a great good, it’s not, in itself, the best thing that could happen to our planet.

However, it’d certainly facilitate the best thing that could happen to our planet.