Today, during the hearings before the British Parliament during which Rupert Murdoch, his evil (yet slightly hot) spawn James, and precious Rebekah Brooks said nothing testified about the shameful phone-hacking scandal, a man in the public gallery decided to throw a pie of shaving cream at Rupert. What I’m guessing is that this man, identfied as Jonnie Marbles aka Jonathan May-Bowles, didn’t count on was slight woman sitting just behind Dr. Evil to be his greatest foe. As the attacker approached, Mrs. Murdoch, Wendi Deng, rose faster than nearly everyone else in the room, cocked her right arm back to yesterday and then proceeded to land a fierce head-correction slap to May-Bowles’ forehead. Point: Tiger Mom. Watch and learn, after the jump. Continue reading
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is probably the weirdest name for a newspaper I’ve ever heard but It sounds weirdly relevant to today’s world, which often seems “post-intelligent.” Take Rebekah Brooks, for example, the News International CEO who did some pretty stupid things and resigned today over her involvement of the ever worsening News of the World telephonic ethics scandal. More headlines inside!
There aren’t many institutions in British public life that have gone untouched by scandal in the past few years. Continue reading
Two of Rupert Murdoch’s many problems are that nobody knows who will take over News Corp when he’s called down by the dark lord and that his daughter runs a media company that he doesn’t own.
In an attempt to solve both problems at one time, News Corp is in the final stages of talks to acquire Elisabeth Murdoch’s European television company Shine Group for somewhere around $700M. Elisabeth is reported to have the kind of drive that the old man is looking for. His other kids are getting passed over, though something tells me they can still live comfortably.