Monday, July 11, 2011

The Weekly World News, R.I.P.

Britain's premiere wingnut scandal sheet ceases publication on the revelation that its reporters routinely hacked & casually deleted the email and phonemail of missing children, KIA soldiers, their families and friends.
Sordid isn't the word, rampantly totalitarian is a more fitting phrase.
Of course, this is a Rupert Murdoch publication who else would act so harshly and stupidly in the face of an entirely self generated disaster?
A whole publication terminated hundreds thrown out of work all to save the hide of one Rebekah Brooks, The Weekly World News' former editor, the tolerant author of these horrors and Rupert Murdoch's alleged corporate heiress!
And if the rumors are true, the worst is yet to come, I wonder if any of this terminates in #10 Downing Street?
And as long as I'm idly speculating here, then one wonders about Fox News in the USA, what sort of reportial antics have they been tolerating based on the model set by the late Weekly World News?
Murdoch has brought this down on himself, plain and simple, nothing would please me more than to see him and his humbled, they've been asking for it for decades.

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