Comments | fpb: A fragment about Rupert Murdoch

fpb

A fragment about Rupert Murdoch

Jul 11, 2009 21:37

Look at the British newspaper market and tell me that it in any way reflects the real taste and desires of the British public. Given a wholly free choice, would sixty million Britons limit themselves to less than a dozen newspapers? I doubt it. Would they flock with great enthusiasm to The Sun and The Daily Mirror as their favoured source of ( Read more... )

tabloids, vulgarity, the sun, rupert murdoch, british media

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And now for an ad hominem attack sanscouronne July 11 2009, 20:45:58 UTC

The guy married a woman nearly 40 years his junior.

Enough said.

Re: And now for an ad hominem attack fpb July 11 2009, 21:23:08 UTC

As his third wife - after he'd got tired of the blonde. The current one is Chinese. Watch out for a tall black girl in five years' time.

And speaking of personal attacks - one look at his face will tell you that all these spectacular beauties are not marrying him for his charm or looks.

Re: And now for an ad hominem attack sanscouronne July 11 2009, 21:34:32 UTC

All it took was one look at those arthritic arms and that wizened visage, and Wendy knew that it was love.

Re: And now for an ad hominem attack fpb July 11 2009, 21:36:48 UTC

One more reply like that and I'll fall in love with your mind.

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redcoast July 11 2009, 20:47:30 UTC

Hee, the Daily Fail.

fpb July 11 2009, 21:31:43 UTC

That's actually owned by Lord Rothermere, but it stinks as well.

ani_bester July 11 2009, 21:01:12 UTC

I want to print this out and distribute it as fliers.
This is a brilliant.

curiously associated with a vulgar right-wing populism wearing the trappings of conservatism even as they normalize a kind of daily discourse that would have been unimaginable two generations ago.

And this is why when i tell people I have a conservative bent they think I'm bible thumping maniac with a shotgun who still lynches people.*sigh*

fpb July 11 2009, 21:25:04 UTC

Actually, on the British side it's more likely to be a ranting, brain-dead atheist with a sex obsession of some sort. But horses for courses, I guess - that would not be very populistic in Texas.

ani_bester July 11 2009, 21:33:47 UTC

haaa no nononono
That would not go over in Texas. They might publish to be sensational though.
Right now it seems I should care about some woman's divorce more than anythign else going on in the world right now >.>

fpb July 11 2009, 21:35:26 UTC

...whose?

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