A few days ago, Les Hinton and Rebekah Brooks, two top executives of Murdoch's News Corp staff in the UK, resigned. For more on his, click here. "A BBC article writes:
In a statement, Mr Hinton said: "I have watched with sorrow from New York as the News of the World story has unfolded. I have seen hundreds of news reports of both actual and alleged misconduct during the time I was executive chairman of News International and responsible for the company.
"The pain caused to innocent people is unimaginable."".
One has to wonder how a reasonably intelligent group of people can have been fooled by Murdoch's outfits for so long. In the United States it has been "Fox
Frank Schaeffer wrote for AlterNet: "Rupert Murdoch is one of America’s number one publishers of evangelical and other religious books, including the 33-million seller Purpose Driven Life by mega pastor and anti-gay activist Rick Warren. Murdoch is also publisher of "progressive" Rob Bell’s Love Wins."
"But those same CBA stores gladly sell tens of millions of books -- annually -- published by Murdoch, a man with the moral rectitude of the herpes virus, a man who runs the companies that gave Glenn Beck a megaphone, that hacked a dead girl's phone, that lied about Iraq's involvement in 9/11, and thus contributed to the war-of-choice needless killing of almost 5000 American soldiers by George W Bush. " For the entire article, click here.
While we bailed out corporations deemed 'Too big to fail'; some like the Murdoch empire should be deemed 'Too big to exist:. We should have stuck to our rules about not letting media outlets get too vast.'
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