Murdoch: News of the World to close down

[Charles Pegge]

Major scandal over here, involving phone hacking and bribing police.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/news-of-the-world-to-close-down.html

[ErosOlmi]

World is all the same.
Here in Italy it is so since many years so for us things like that is not a scandal but just normality.

[danbaron]

In my opinion, there's only one reason the chief A-hole is closing the paper, he is intent on buying more papers - he is trying to fool the public into believing that he is shocked at what happened.

But, Rebekah Brooks is clean though, do you think?

Let me know if any member of the chief A-hole's family, or any of his executives, are not like him.

It's interesting, this guy is old, has all the money in the world, but, like many narcissistic A-holes, the last thing he wants to do is to leave everyone alone and fade to white.

Almost every person at the top is, in my opinion, fake.

How about, Oprah (<-- "Dope-rah")?

To me, even if the guy's name is, Barack Obama. I would say almost without exception, for every successful politician, in truth, the one who comes first is him, the one who comes second is him, the one who comes third is him..

Take the example of (semi-politician?) Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (<-- Does the name alone indicate, A-hole?).

There was the photograph of his wife smiling and holding his hand as they left the N.Y. court together.

Do you think she was actually as joyful as she presented herself, or, could the motivation possibly have been that, to her, money, class, and fame beat right and wrong every single time.

(When he was under house arrest in N.Y., the two of them were staying in a $50,000 per moth (<-- "moth" or "month"?) apartment.)

(I could make a similar case for every royal family in the world. What is the difference between an absolute monarchy and a dictatorship? What is the purpose of supporting a royal family in a symbolic monarchy, nostalgia? Let me know when a royal family turns down the money, class, titles, and privileges, and donates all of the proceeds to charity. The two young British Royals are coming to L.A. tomorrow, and will be responsible for the closing of a large part of the main freeway during rush hour - thank you very much. I think on Saturday they will be off to the polo match, "tip-tip", "cheerio". Maybe if we're lucky, we'll get to see Kate wearing a hat that one would otherwise swear is a huge floral display/fruit basket.)

[Charles Pegge]

He wants to get approval for 100% ownership of B Sky B, controlling most of our non-BBC broadcasting space. Fortunately the Internet is beyond his reach. (I trust!)

Charles