We would not have had the Iraq War without Murdoch and here, Fox.
El V went to the protest yesterday here in NYC outside of one of RM's houses, even though he wasn't in it.
Hardly anyone else had showed up. In England they'll get out in the streets, but in this country nobody can get off their ass to do something. I googled and that activism ....
Funny though -- Murdoch's been at this garbage for years, and we all know it, it's reported, but only this time did people get outraged and Something Had To Be Done. Why the flip this time around? What politicians that he supposedly owns got pissed off enough to withdraw protection, and why?
In England they'll get out in the streets, but in this country nobody can get off their ass to do something.
It's something that boggles me, too. A few months after I got here, the election in Florida was openly rigged and hence the White House stolen; I expected the usual UK/European response -- rioting in the streets until legality was restored -- and was dumbfounded when everyone seemed to regard it as business as usual, pass the coleslaw, big game on TV tonite. Huh? This is supposed to be the hub of world democracy? Don't these people know that democracy isn't just a matter of beating your chest and telling people how wunnerful you are compared to them, but sometghing you have to work 24/7 to maintain? The Brits are far from the most dynamic of the Europeans in this regard, but rigged elections (as in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004), if anyone were so monumentally stupid as to try such tricks, would have even the Hyacinth Buckets of this life out on the streets chucking bricks.
Mind you, it's taken the Brits decades to be roused about Murdoch. The reckoning is that, when organs like the News of the Screws was known to be hacking just pols and celebs, no one much cared -- pols and celebs, after all, don't exist in real life, just in a sort of soap-opera imitation thereof -- but that, when it emerged the journos had been hacking the phone of an abducted-murdered-and-raped preadolescent teen, everything suddenly became different.
It's going to be interesting to see how the Obama administration will square disapproval of Murdoch's hacking activities with its own extension of the Patriot (sic) Act.
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Date: 2011-07-16 02:25 pm (UTC)History is bunk, after all, and who's interested in even the most recent bunk?
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Date: 2011-07-16 05:58 pm (UTC)El V went to the protest yesterday here in NYC outside of one of RM's houses, even though he wasn't in it.
Hardly anyone else had showed up. In England they'll get out in the streets, but in this country nobody can get off their ass to do something. I googled and that activism ....
Funny though -- Murdoch's been at this garbage for years, and we all know it, it's reported, but only this time did people get outraged and Something Had To Be Done. Why the flip this time around? What politicians that he supposedly owns got pissed off enough to withdraw protection, and why?
Love, C.
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Date: 2011-07-17 03:40 am (UTC)In England they'll get out in the streets, but in this country nobody can get off their ass to do something.
It's something that boggles me, too. A few months after I got here, the election in Florida was openly rigged and hence the White House stolen; I expected the usual UK/European response -- rioting in the streets until legality was restored -- and was dumbfounded when everyone seemed to regard it as business as usual, pass the coleslaw, big game on TV tonite. Huh? This is supposed to be the hub of world democracy? Don't these people know that democracy isn't just a matter of beating your chest and telling people how wunnerful you are compared to them, but sometghing you have to work 24/7 to maintain? The Brits are far from the most dynamic of the Europeans in this regard, but rigged elections (as in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004), if anyone were so monumentally stupid as to try such tricks, would have even the Hyacinth Buckets of this life out on the streets chucking bricks.
Mind you, it's taken the Brits decades to be roused about Murdoch. The reckoning is that, when organs like the News of the Screws was known to be hacking just pols and celebs, no one much cared -- pols and celebs, after all, don't exist in real life, just in a sort of soap-opera imitation thereof -- but that, when it emerged the journos had been hacking the phone of an abducted-murdered-and-raped preadolescent teen, everything suddenly became different.
It's going to be interesting to see how the Obama administration will square disapproval of Murdoch's hacking activities with its own extension of the Patriot (sic) Act.