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Nov. 14th, 2007 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogRegan Sues HarperCollins For $100M
reads the AP headline (http://www.wtov9.com/news/14590852/detail.html). Judith Regan, sacked ostensibly over the tasteless OJ Simpson book she'd commissioned, is suing her former employees, NewsCorp, claiming unfair dismissal: it seems her ousting had nothing to do with the OJ book, nor with the antisemitic remarks she's said to have made, but everything to do with the affair she'd had with Bernie Kerik. Apparently the bigwigs of NewsCorp are keen for Rudy "9/11" Giuliani to become US President, and recognize that the biggest fly in his ointment is the close relationship he's enjoyed over the years with Kerik. (Hang on. Yes, it's Giuliani I'm talking about here, not Regan. I got confused for a moment.) When the pouting ingenue (yep, Regan again) refused to lie to federal investigators about Kerik, her days at NewsCorp were numbered. After her canning, she was the victim of a NewsCorp smear campaign.
Enough innocent folks have been the victims of NewsCorp smear campaigns without the tiniest flutter of protest from NewsCorp employees like La Regan, happy enough to take the Murdoch shilling so long as she could, that I find it hard to feel sympathy for her on this latter count: hoisting, petards, that sort of thing. Otherwise, though, the lawsuit strikes me as infinitely cheering news: true, there'll be a bit of sadness whoever wins, but at the same time there'll be a cause for rejoicing whoever loses.
And, who knows, perhaps there really has been some pro-Kerik, pro-Giuliani skullduggery at NewsCorp? I'm rubbing my hands with anticipation on this one ...
The complete complaint she's filed is available as a PDF at http://www.portfolio.com/images/site/editorial/pdf/regancomplaint.pdf. It makes quite surprisingly funny browsing.
Enough innocent folks have been the victims of NewsCorp smear campaigns without the tiniest flutter of protest from NewsCorp employees like La Regan, happy enough to take the Murdoch shilling so long as she could, that I find it hard to feel sympathy for her on this latter count: hoisting, petards, that sort of thing. Otherwise, though, the lawsuit strikes me as infinitely cheering news: true, there'll be a bit of sadness whoever wins, but at the same time there'll be a cause for rejoicing whoever loses.
And, who knows, perhaps there really has been some pro-Kerik, pro-Giuliani skullduggery at NewsCorp? I'm rubbing my hands with anticipation on this one ...
The complete complaint she's filed is available as a PDF at http://www.portfolio.com/images/site/editorial/pdf/regancomplaint.pdf. It makes quite surprisingly funny browsing.
