Casting rumours...

Rebekah Brooks - Susan Sarandon
Andy Coulson - Chris Addison
Sean Hoare* - Tom Wilkinson
Rupert Murdoch - that wizened smoking monkey from the lab

* http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0719/1224300947409.html

...next Sunday's News of the World newspaper will cost you £24.83 a copy, and probably be written by unpaid interns ( Read more... )

'A Church of England bishop who made "deeply offensive" comments on Facebook about the royal engagement has been suspended from his public duties. The Bishop of Willesden, the Right Reverend Pete Broadbent, said the union between Prince William and Kate Middleton would last about seven years. He apologised for the remarks on Monday but has been ( Read more... )

It was bad enough when Le Monde announced their treacherous, cheese-eating surrender-monkey subscription tactics earlier this week (http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite- ( Read more... )

Fascinating portrait of Rupert Murdoch's off-message and somewhat dysfunctional clan, which Fox haters will drool over:

http://nymag.com/news/media/64305/

Right, I'm out of here. Behave yourselves...

Murdoch's revenue model marches on. Well, that should shut up* the naysayer pipsqueaks at The Inquisitr, et alhttp://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/14933/new-media/ny-times-to-charge-for-online-news-from-2011Read more... )

...you can shout "Fuck you, Darling!" at a monitor before people start exchanging nervous glances, and sending you instant messages emblazoned with the 'phone number for Relate ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/11/hitech_hacks.html

However, note - once again - the almost insane emphasis on speed (and the associated use of tech) at the potential cost of other journalistic 'values':

"I told them [student journalists in ( Read more... )

Firstly, to those who have posed the question, and variations thereon in e-mails today, "Who do you hate more, Google or Rupert Murdoch?", I'll offer this composite answer: It's not a matter of hatred, it's a matter of distrust. As much as one might dislike Murdoch, if you cut through the bluster and the posturing, what you're left with is an ( Read more... )

Yep, he's still dead.


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