News Corp follows Vatican Business Model?

The Wall Street Journal in opinion is questioning why the liberal media is ignoring all the medieval Catholic institutions suing Obamacare and focusing on the Vatican’s mafia brand business model in the present Vatileaks scandal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303830204577446350219465274.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

ABC made the Angels & Demons comparison three times in its coverage, with correspondent Jeffrey Kofman declaring on Sunday's Good Morning America: "All of this talk of conspiracy and palace intrigues sound much like a Dan Brown novel....There are similar scenes in his book 'Angels and Demons.' But this is very real....Years ago, Vatican conspirators used to poison their enemies. Today, it's a little more subtle. They leak to the media."
All three networks used highly charged language to portray the Church as some sort of criminal enterprise. On Friday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Jim Maceda wrapped up his report by ominously asserting: "...the alleged leaks by the man closest to the Pope may have lifted another veil on the secretive and perhaps illegal activity inside the Vatican itself."
In a report for Saturday's ABC World News, Kofman described how the leaks,"include searing allegations of corruption and cronyism at the Vatican Bank, a bizarre plot to kill the Pope allegedly by a cardinal hoping to succeed him, and a nasty power struggle between Vatican reformers and those who want nothing to change."

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A Fitting Tribute to News Corp

“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails, and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like… the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.” – C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Milly Dowler – Selling Inhumanity for Greed

Is it really less than two weeks since a human interest story on a dead girl Milly Dowler caught traction and in less than a week, the NOTW (News of the World) was closed, and the PM (Prime Minister) and wanna be PM were feigning surprise and anger and were kicking friend/lover Rupert so rudely out of bed? Political whores for sure.

If you step back on a historic timeline, this Murdoch empire gotcha glitch is more like an explosion, something like collateral damage of the implosion already occurring within the family business.

No doubt they already had plans to close the NOTW, and in one more cynical move shut it down as some sort of empty gesture of outrage against the hacking thing.

Fox News here, owned by Murdoch, has pretty much hidden the biggest story about inhumanity on the planet these past two weeks.  Ignorance is not necessarily bliss. 

Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World

I see close to ten thousand tweets and 22 thousand facebook shares on that one article.  Outrage spread quickly but you still had to have the one damning piece of evidence of inhumanity for the sake of greed in the form of that one Guardian article.

Now with the head of the Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal resigning and likely to be arrested too along with Rebekah Brooks, it seems as if the bureaucrats cannot move fast enough or get a big enough chunk of bloody meat from the carcass of Rupert’s media empire. 

Says something about the real stability of our so called capitalist system.  (The soviet system was merely the first one to totally collapse.)

Scotland Yard has got to redeem its reputation fast.  The FBI will go fishing and 3-6 months down the road more indictments in the US.  Truth to be found or merely more circuses for the starving masses.

Have to wonder why this spread so quickly, and I have to wonder if the economy and the cost of everything including cable TV and the modern day Byzantine kabuki style Murdoch journalism is something that sells well  with the bankers and the accountants but not really with the public in general.

“Let em eat cake” doesn’t sell well anymore this round of history.