a friendly Freudian slip

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a friendly Freudian slip
Monday, January 25, 2010


That's how writer Mandy Miami described the diminutive Mathew Freud in a British magazine many years ago, long before he became the "most influential public relations executive in Britain" according to PR Week magazine. Freud is boss of Freud Communications: motto "Sometimes we upset people.."

But what is this statement all about in the New York Times ?. According to the newspaper Freud says:

“I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,”

Oh really ?. Shurley shome mishtake as the English satirical magazine Private Eye would say. Freud is referring to the boss of the US cable network Fox News, Roger Ailes.

Rupert Murdoch had just heaped praise upon Ailes and his skilled management of Fox News and it's capture of every right-wing ratbag US viewer and it's slavish devotion to Republican Evangelism.
Mathew Freud is also married to Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth.

But what about his dad-in-law's UK publications The Sun or the News of The World which have been dragging journalistic standards down to gutter level and into the sewer for over 2 decades ?. Not that they had far to fall.
A little too close to home perhaps.
Murdoch's British rags dole out crap by the tonne each week but who could forget some shining moments like the 'Gotcha' headline of The Sun frontpage in 1982, celebrating the horrible death of 323 young Argentinian sailors in a useless war for the sheep-shagging Falklands Islands begun by the Murdoch adored Margaret Thatcher.

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Fox News is horrendous, as can be seen just recently in one small example when a group of Los Angeles fire fighters who had travelled to Haiti under their own steam and expense were pictured dragging a 70 year old lady from the earthquake rubble on one TV network while at the same time the atrocious pill popping lard bucket and radio host Rush Limbaugh.............

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