Rupert Murdoch Hires NSA Head to Run Newspapers

[Coyotl]

Rupert Murdoch Hires NSA Head to Run Newspapers
Oct 29, 2013

Keith Alexander will oversee news gathering technology

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has hired the outgoing head of the National Security Agency (NSA) to oversee his company's newspapers.

In a statement from News Corporation, Murdoch said Army Gen. Keith Alexander is "an experienced leader with a unique and varied background in information gathering, research and technology -- valuable skills that will help our newspapers continue to provide our readers the information they need long before our competitors do."

The announcement arrives as Alexander, who has served as director of the NSA for eight years, is facing increasing scrutiny since recent leaked documents revealed the NSA routinely broke privacy rules and engaged in widespread monitoring of phones, emails and social media of millions of people, including those of nearly 40 world leaders.

more: http://dailycurrant.com/2013/10/29/rupert-murdoch-hires-nsa-head-to-run-newspapers/

[blkmusclmachine]

1. .

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[bluedeathray]

2. And with access to the NSA database,

They'll never run out of stories. Or ways to confirm them.

[Coyotl]

3. "You realize we they hear you?" LOL.

[99th_Monkey]

4. No revolving doors here

no sir-y

[Downwinder]

5. A fitting match.

[2banon]

6. you freaking gotta be shitting me

no words

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. yes kidding.... Satire site

they have had some pretty good ones lately which were Onionist enough to fool oneself.

[2banon]

15. guess I should have checked source before reacting..

[sendero]

18. There used to be a DUer..

... I believe a "she" whose name was "nothingshocksmeanymore".

I think she was just a bit ahead of some of us because even though I suspected this was satire I WASN'T SURE

[Coyotl]

12. Kind of a DU tradition to not provide more notice of the satire than the link.

Part of the fun of this brand of satire is the believability of the absurdity.

Congrats, you are this thread's winner of the Cynic Award, first to express certain belief.

On edit, we should call it the Poe Award.

[2banon]

14. I'll take that as a friendly jab ;)

can't believe I fell for it..

[Coyotl]

16. And, for winning the Poe Award, it's your turn to post one.

http://dailycurrant.com/

[2banon]

17. omg.. there's some hilarious headlines there..

I wish this one was true:

Government Opening Free Gas Stations in Poor Neighborhoods

the comment section is really hilarious.... kind of like my reaction to the OP.. 'you gotta be shittin' me'...

[Coyotl]

19. Let's make it a traveling trophy!

A new DU tradition is born.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. That one is almost believable.

[ReRe]

9. That is almost believable. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. It does get very close to truth

After all, in Britain we saw Murdoch's editor of the News of the World become David Cameron's press spokesman, and after Cameron became PM, this may have resulted in security breaches:

The former No 10 head of communications has told the Leveson inquiry he may have had unsupervised access to secret material

That revolving door is there; if things hadn't blown up in his face, I could see Murdoch might have made a move like this.

[bemildred]

11. "And he knows a lot about phone hacking." nt

[woo me with science]

13. Poe's Law.

A DUer taught me that.