Wednesday, September 14, 2011

As the Rupert Turns

On this morning's episode, a bomb drops on News Corp headquarters. The only people Rupert pretends to care about, News Corp shareholders, have amended their lawsuit. They now accuse the News Corp board of allowing Rupert Murdoch to oversee ‘illegal’ operations in U.S., and a broad pattern of corruption.

Holy crap. Did I mention that this lawsuit is by his own shareholders?

In other Rupert stories, his shuttered newspaper News of the World just happened to find thousands and thousands of documents. Or as they said in their own press release: "Two very large new caches of documents have been [discovered] which the current management were unaware of." Or in other words: "OH! My bad on all those 'under oath' denials. See? We didn't know about these documents. Honest mistake."

And in Rupert's native Australia, his former countrymen are mightily ticked off at the man who renounced his citizenship (and not for renouncing his citizenship). It appears that he has meddled in the political process there so much, Australia has launched an independent inquiry into the media's behavior. In a country that he owns 70% of the newspapers (you read that right), this is clearly an investigation into Rupert.

Other than those things, he's been having a pretty good week.