"Thank God for Rupert Murdoch" says Kelvin Mackenzie

[oldironside]

"Two decades ago Rupert Murdoch was sitting at his desk in Wapping as a financial firestorm engulfed his company. The banks were baying at the door. A lethal mix of over-ambition and heavy investment in the nascent BSkyB had laid News Corporation low. Rupert said to me: "Not sure how this is going to end … just in case, I've paid up my mortgages."

I nodded sagely. But as I wandered down the executive corridor back to my beloved Sun, I literally came out in a cold sweat; if Rupert was going bust, who was going to pay my mortgage?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/30/rupert-murdoch-monopoly-news-corp

This article is worth a Private Eye Order of the Brown Nose lifetime achievement award. If everyone were like Murdoch, the human race would eat it's own young.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Kelvin Mackenzie can piss off from "leftwing, socialist, clapped-out Britain"

If he worships an Australian who took American citizenship for purely commercial reasons so much, he can follow him to somewhere else rather than sitting here moaning about how everyone hates Kelvin. He clearly doesn't understand Britain if he thinks it's socialist.

Murdoch has made the world a far worse place. Imagine how much happier we'd be if he'd never been born.

[oldironside]

2. He's a tabloid journalist.

Therefore he's got absolutely no soul. I often wonder how people like that can live with themselves. Given that no philosopher has any idea at all what it's all about, it would seem to be sensible to hedge your bets in case there is a celestial court to decide where you go when you die.

Would it really strike them blind to be nice to people? To care about the wellbeing of their fellow men? To show a bit of... empathy?

By any objective measure, hell must be full of shits like them.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Ugh. I had almost forgotten Kelvin Mackenzie

One of the most blatantly vile tabloid editors we've had, against lots of competition.


'clapped-out Britain' - one thing that always strikes me about these 'super-patriots' is how much they seem to *despise* Britain.



This article may be of interest (have your sick-bag ready):

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=35890

“IMacKenzie adds that he thinks The Sun should have the £1million returned, which was lost to Elton John in a libel case under his reign.

In 1987, The Sun had falsely alleged that the singer had his “vicious Rottweiler dogs” silenced by a "horrific operation” to remove their larynges.


He says: “Bloody Elton John. I think The Sun should have its million quid back. It hasn’t damaged him at all, has it?'...

“He pleads “not guilty” to allowing lies to be printed in The Sun while he was editor.

He says: “When I published those stories, they were not lies. But I don’t really think of it all in the way you suggest. They were great stories that later turned out to be untrue — and that is different.”

He adds: “What am I supposed to feel ashamed about?”...



“Look I am not here to be helpful. I am here to help myself, right, so I have no regrets how I treated some people.”


He really does come across as a true psychopath! Maybe you need to be, in order to be able to edit a poisonous rag like The Sun.

[T_i_B]

4. Has Mackenzie gobbed off about this yet?

It will be interesting to know if Mackenzie approves of News International hacking a dead girl's mobile phone and interfering in a murder investigation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/04/milly-dowler-voicemail-hacked-news-of-world

[oldironside]

5. In all probability...

... he can't understand what all the fuss is about.

"What? Hacking a missing girl's phone and deleting some of her messages so they can get more sordid details? That's bloody good journalism! And if it gets more reaction out of the family, so much the better."

To deal with leeches of this size, society needs a 300' cigarette. Bastards. Lowest form of life. One step below pimps and drug dealers.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. "We should all have our phones hacked" - true Kelvin MacKenzie quote

His brown-nosing knows no limits.

MacKenzie also confirmed on Monday that he had been told by law firm Mischon de Reya, which is representing many of the News of the World's phone hacking victims, that he was among those listed as having been targeted.

He has asked the firm to retrieve any information held by the Metropolitan police about when hacking took place, but said on Monday he would not take legal action against the News of the World's publisher, the News International subsidiary News Group Newspapers, which employs him as a columnist for the Sun.

"I'm not going to sue, and I'll write about it in my column and say how glad I am to have joined the serried ranks of celebrities hacked by the News of the World," he said.

"I am pleased that my phone was hacked. I was very worried a one stage that I was nothing at all. We should all have our phones hacked. If you are a plumber in Rochdale your phone is only hacked two times in a lifetime. If you are Jeremy Clarkson your phone gets hacked 20,000 times."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/16/kelvin-mackenzie-sports-tonight

[oldironside]

11. Maybe we all have!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/families-7-7-targets-phone-hacking

FFS, where will this end?

[tjwmason]

7. Petition to halt approval of Murdoch's latest acquisition

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/murdoch-deal-petition#petition

Doubt it will have any effect, but worth a try given the effort needed...

[LeftishBrit]

8. done

[oldironside]

9. Done

[T_i_B]

10. And another one from Avaaz

http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2/?cl=1144722366&v=9510