Australia needs a parlimentary enquiry into media ownership.

[crikey chris]

how long can they keep up the "Sargent Shultz response" charade?

game over Rupert!

[Guest]

Yeah I think he's a goner. This is bigger than Ben Hur.

I'm watching the British parliment now, Cameran is getting hammered, which is a pity as he's a decent pollie.

I get the feeling News Int will be cut lose by News Corp. If it's proven that News Int perverted the course of justice it's game over.

Chook.

[Guest]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busi...-1226098227102

JULIA Gillard has declared that News Ltd, the Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, has "hard questions" to answer in light of the UK phone hacking scandal.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busi...-1226098247727

RUPERT Murdoch's testimony before a UK parliamentary committee about the phone-hacking crisis reinforced the views of some News Corporation shareholders that he should step aside as chief executive.
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I hope you're wrong Fitz. He and James are getting panned for their failure to know what goes on in their corporation.

Chook.

No evidence of phone hacking or any wrong doing here. No need for an expensive enquiry funded with taxpayer money.

[Guest]

One major issue about all this and the effect it may have that hasn't been mentioned yet, but which I saw evidence of last night watching the british parliment was the absolute disgust that Nick Clegg (deputy PM and leader for the Liberal Democrats) now holds for David Cameron his coallition partner.

In nearly every TV shot last night there was all the conservatives behind Cameron nodding on his every answer while Nick Clegg stared blankly into space. Not once did Clegg acknowledge a Cameron answer or give any type of support for Cameron.

If Clegg and his Liberal Democtrats pull their support for Cameron and his Torries, the UK would head back to the polls. And that may happen depending on what Andy Coulson has to say.

This could very well turn into the UK's version of the sacking of the Whitlam government.

Chook.

[stephenj]

Alan Gloria Jones is a liar to the nth degree, he has and always will play favourites the fact that he has a certain eloquence and a persuasive manner makes him even more dangerous, giving people the impression that he is from"struggle st" but get chauffeured around in his latest Mercedes, hell never discuss his part in cash for comment or his cruising the mens toilets in London, only likes to bash the leftist politicians then gets spiteful if a debate shows him up, he still hates gillard for besting him in an on air debate, if you exchange handwritten letters with him and tale high tea your his best est friend, even better if you wear Lycra like abbot, it helps to be an athletic male, preferably younger!

[supermario]

Maybe there is some good and decency in the Elder murdoch Son. maybe lachlan knows whats going on with the Aussie papers and does not want to get into his dads mess..........the other good thing is, lachlan's son....he is a Rooster.

Murdoch 'wants Lachlan to buy Australian papers'



Michael Bachelard
July 24, 2011 .



Lachlan Murdoch ... not buying. Photo: AFP

RUPERT MURDOCH is trying to offload his Australian media business to his son Lachlan but Murdoch junior is not buying, according to the biographer Michael Wolff.

Wolff, author of The Man Who Owns the News, says that in early to mid-June this year, before the phone-hacking scandal turned sour for him, Rupert Murdoch made a strong effort to bring Lachlan back to an executive role.

''A rather close friend [of Lachlan] told me that … Rupert was calling people trying to get them interested in buying Lachlan's position in Channel Ten with the express purpose so Lachlan would get out of that and be able to buy News Limited,'' Wolff said from New York.

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Lachlan owns 9 per cent of Ten shares, is a member of the network's board and is acting chief executive officer. His father's move ''really pissed Lachlan off'', Wolff said. ''He was going around complaining to friends that the old man couldn't keep his nose out of Lachlan's business.''

Both Lachlan Murdoch and News Limited spokesman Greg Baxter declined to comment. Lachlan was publisher of The Australian in the early 1990s, and in 1995 was appointed the deputy chief executive of News Limited, the Australian arm of the Murdoch empire, before moving offshore to run other parts of the company. But in 2005 he quit executive responsibilities in News Corporation, the global parent company, moved back to Australia and set up his own investment business, Illyria Pty Ltd. He has since been reinstated to the board of News Corporation as a non-executive director.

Wolff said the whole Murdoch family hoped Lachlan would buy the Australian assets, which include tabloid newspapers in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin, and The Australian. It also includes substantial stakes in Foxtel and Fox Sports, and www.realestate.com.

The commentator Stephen Mayne says the Australian assets are worth about $3 billion, much too big a bite for Lachlan alone. The analyst Mark McDonnell, of BBY Limited, put it at more like $1.5 billion, at most. Wolff said the family was ''fully convinced that at some point in time he will be ready and Rupert keeps pushing him to do this''. He said Rupert's sentiment for the Australian operation was strong.

''But he very much sees this as part of his family enterprise, which is again why he wants to see it owned by Lachlan.''

Lachlan was the only Murdoch child who cared about newspapers, Wolff said. Rupert Murdoch controls News Corporation with just 12 per cent of the shares. Mr Mayne said he might try to structure a similar deal for Lachlan here.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/murdo...#ixzz1T11Y4Wbj

[Kingbilly]

Its not just the heads that need to be accountable.
The shit kickers that write the rubbish and the editors that decide that we the public want to read rubbish really need to have their asses kicked severley

[Guest]

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2815974.html

Another reason why we need to tear the head off that pit of hackery Limited News. It's a cess pool of bullshit and propaganda.

Chook.

[chook 56]

Squirm, baby, squirm....lol

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/worl...016-1lrkj.html

[Guest]

As much as I depise the Murdoch family and wish them nothing but calumny, I cannot countenance a media inquiry touted by the green filth. The only reason that it's being touted is because our prime minister has his fangs deep into Julia Gillard.

The communist filth can have their five minutes of joy at the prospect of redistributing all the wealth in this country until this nonsense gets removed.

I think all the socialists out there forget one thing, if you get rid of people earning money like all these occupy Wall Street fools seem to want, who pays your dole payments every fortnight?

[Guest]

As much as I depise the Murdoch family and wish them nothing but calumny, I cannot countenance a media inquiry touted by the green filth. The only reason that it's being touted is because our prime minister has his fangs deep into Julia Gillard.

The communist filth can have their five minutes of joy at the prospect of redistributing all the wealth in this country until this nonsense gets removed.

I think all the socialists out there forget one thing, if you get rid of people earning money like all these occupy Wall Street fools seem to want, who pays your dole payments every fortnight?

There is so much stupidity in this post I hardly know where to begin. But John if you truly think the money earners are on wall street you are more clueless than this post dictates.

Chook.

[melon....]

Alan Gloria Jones is a liar to the nth degree, he has and always will play favourites the fact that he has a certain eloquence and a persuasive manner makes him even more dangerous, giving people the impression that he is from"struggle st" but get chauffeured around in his latest Mercedes, hell never discuss his part in cash for comment or his cruising the mens toilets in London, only likes to bash the leftist politicians then gets spiteful if a debate shows him up, he still hates gillard for besting him in an on air debate, if you exchange handwritten letters with him and tale high tea your his best est friend, even better if you wear Lycra like abbot, it helps to be an athletic male, preferably younger!

Lighten up Steve. That Labor headband is on too tight.

[Guest]

There is so much stupidity in this post I hardly know where to begin. But John if you truly think the money earners are on wall street you are more clueless than this post dictates.

Chook.

No, they're in Chinatown and in Mosman, with their daughters wearing collarbombs.

I know that.

[chook 56]

Well!
I was wwwwwrong (I am related to Fonzie). Nothing to see here, people.
Move along.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1226194744675

[chook 56]

Oh, I forgot.......nudge nudge, wink wink