‘Just another crazy’: Rupert Murdoch’s week of horrors
by David Salter, a journalist and former Media Watch EP
It’s been a bad week to be a Murdoch. Even ever-smiling Sarah, who married into the clan via Lachlan, seemed so paralysed by the revelations over the past five days that she confessed to Nine News that she couldn’t make up her mind which infant to vote for as a judge of the Australia’s Loveliest Baby competition. That it has come to this …
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Rupert’s fight for survival won’t be waged in the UK or Italy but in the US, where the business establishment has always seen him as an uncouth interloper. They’re patient men, quite happy to let the British and Australian media make the running until their quarry is weakened. Eventually, one of the myriad American agencies with a stake in local media regulation will pluck up the courage to assemble all the evidence and put Murdoch to the “fit and proper person” test. Which is where the real fun will start.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/03/30/just-another-crazy-rupert-murdochs-week-of-horrors/
