Nasty Rupert

[discocrisco01]

Good read from the Financial Times

"The Rupert Murdoch we all know and love (or love to hate) is an aggressive, insurgent media tycoon who prefers to fight against entrenched media forces and insult them while doing so.

The Rupert Murdoch we have seen in the past couple of years is a humble pussycat who says nice things about how News Corp has to learn to play nicely with the digital generation.

Thankfully, nasty Rupert seems to be back.

Mr Murdoch's complaints about Google and news aggregators "stealing" stories from News Corp publications and not contributing to the expense of employing journalists has stirred things up thoroughly and made him once again a villain in many people's eyes.

Mr Murdoch's energies are now focused on two companies he has identified as entrenched monopolies of the kind he loves to duel against. One is Google and the other is The New York Times, against which he is launching a New York City edition of the Journal.

Personally, Murdoch is a scumbag and I got a resentment aganist Fox News. But what elese is new,

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Odious creature. nt