THE MURDOCH EMPIRE GROWTH JUST HIT A BRICK WALL.

I will ass/u/me as Benny Hill would have described my thoughts at this moment.  On 3/13/2012, Rebekah Brooks (and her husband) were arrested for "suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice” – in layman's terms, an organized coverup. An article in the Christian Science Monitor stated:: "The scandal proved to be a takedown of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and thwarted, at the last minute, his efforts to take over Britain’s most lucrative cable TV operation, an outcome that would have given his global empire unprecedented power in the United Kingdom."  For the complete article, click here..

For those of us who have scorned our US Fox News Media Outlet, viewed by many of us as 'unfair and unbalanced ' rather than the advertised fair and balanced, we are seeing the arrests as quite fair.  Cheating does not belong in our media world.  Those who say, "Yeah, but lots of places do it."  are correct, which is why our jails are so full.

It has not been running in our news that I have seen these last few days as, undoubte4dly, a courtesy to Prime Minister Cameron from Britain while visiting President Obama..  At least that is what I ass/u/me.  That is fair.; 
The legal matters will continue regardless of whether our readers in the US are given all the details or not.

Recalling when Ma Bell was forced to become smaller, I deplore the administrations that allowed monopolies to multiply.  The words 'too big to fail' would have been prevented from being applicable had those regulations been in place.  When I hear Teapartiers and Republicans talk about getting rid of regulations, they sound like minor children wanting to break away from parental rules, totally immature. 

Those who agree must have grown up with the same selfish determination.  It seems strange to me that a country so full of regulations about our safety (there are fences everywhere to keep us from getting hurt by backing off a cliff) and all sorts of road rules, fines for not wearing seat belts, helmet requirements, and many others, would  Gingrich do away with child labor laws instead of trying to get children more focused on their primary task, education?  What has happened to fairness?  We are seeing so  little of it lately.

DO YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GET?

from Merriam Webster::

de·serve verb \di-ˈzərv

transitive verb

: to be worthy of : merit 

I have often heard it said that voters who voted against Obama but ended up with the Teapartiers, deserve what they got.  This strikes me as a complete misunderstanding of the verb deserve.  It is too often used as 'deserving punishment', oddly, because it punishes the rest of us who are probably totally 'undeserving'..  

Common misuse of concepts and words  makes meaning difficult to comprehend..  "I could care less" is the opposite of what people usually intend.  They want to convey that they care the least possible.  It might be better  if they mean what they say, "I couldn't care less."

Another non-thought-out phrase is, "You made your bed, now lie in it."  That is fine if it refers to singular actions that effect that one person.  However,. if the decision was made about something that effects many it becomes useless.

"You deserve the very best."  Usually contrived by marketers.  In fact, this is a useless expression because the speaker is in no position to see that the very best is attainable for anyone.  This confuses the recipient who often also has a concept that the world should be 'fair'.  The right to fairness is another misconception. While our world would be an Eden if everything were fair and deserved, reality has never provided for that to be for all of us.  We need to shape our own world as much as possible but few of us find complete fairness and deserved merit rewarded appropriately..