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To think Rupert Murdoch should burn in the fires of hell

213 replies

Laughingstock1991 · 12/07/2023 20:11

Honestly, he’s evil. The Sun & all his press is the absolute worst of the worst.

The mostly fabricated story about Huw Edwards was likely timed to cover up tory scandal, bring down the bbc.

Boris Johnson STILL has defied a court order & not handed in his phone. This should be the main headline- not destroying a man for his sexual preferences (which weren’t deemed illegal activity anyway)

Murdoch is absolute scum. The most morally empty vile arsehole.

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MysteryBelle · 12/07/2023 22:37

Laughingstock1991 · 12/07/2023 22:29

@MysteryBelle no one knows if that picture is a deep fake or not.

🙄 sure, Laughing Stock. You and truth, never the twain shall meet.

Laughingstock1991 · 12/07/2023 22:39

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Nellynoowhoareyou · 12/07/2023 22:47

Totally agree OP.

CrustyWingshield · 12/07/2023 22:47

I wonder what celeb they will pile on next. They are going to need a large supply of celebrities with questionable private lives in order to bury all the Tory fuck ups. Soon there will be nobody left on the TV.

It's getting to the point where as soon as things like this come out I look at the economic situation and what laws they are pushing through in even more detail to see what they are trying to distract from. Things like the gilt market, the fact they are gambling woth out pensions on very, very risky start ups, the property market forecasts and George Osbournes group email about his interesting sex life, so itvreally, really doesn't work.

HowardKirksConscience · 12/07/2023 22:51

Justcallmebebes · 12/07/2023 20:17

Murdoch is a press baron who weilds a lot of power. That's what media tycoons do. Control and manipulative the narrative.

You're BU to be so dramatic about it

It seems to me to be worth getting dramatic about, given what you’ve just said… or do you think controlling and manipulating the media isn’t a bad thing?

VeniVidiWeeWee · 12/07/2023 22:52

@CrustyWingshield

What group email did George Osborne send?

Florenz · 12/07/2023 22:54

Why don't the Guardian and other left wing papers improve their journalism and sell more papers and influence more people? People aren't forced to buy the Sun. They buy it of their own free will.

Surely the problem is that too many people buy and read the Sun, rather than anything Murdoch does?

VeniVidiWeeWee · 12/07/2023 23:03

Florenz · 12/07/2023 22:54

Why don't the Guardian and other left wing papers improve their journalism and sell more papers and influence more people? People aren't forced to buy the Sun. They buy it of their own free will.

Surely the problem is that too many people buy and read the Sun, rather than anything Murdoch does?

Unfortunately too few people buy any newspapers, instead relying on on-line "reporting".

Lizzt2007 · 12/07/2023 23:03

yogasaurus · 12/07/2023 20:42

Maybe not illegal, but also not fabricated, if the wife’s statement is anything to you by?

Might be nothing to you, but cheating on your wife and kids (repeatedly) with barely legal online acquaintances isn’t nothing to me.

Seedy, even if not illegal.

The wife's statement very clearly does not state that huw is guilty of the allegations. She stated he is the person the allegations have been made against. Do still quite possibly fabricated. The police have stated no illegal activity, and the first alleged victim has stated through lawyers that there was no illegal contact.

Laughingstock1991 · 12/07/2023 23:03

https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1671411228747464705
I forgot about this-film by Led by donkeys about why Murdoch is a danger to democracy

https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1671411228747464705

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CrustyWingshield · 12/07/2023 23:04

VeniVidiWeeWee · 12/07/2023 22:52

@CrustyWingshield

What group email did George Osborne send?

It was sent about him by someone else. I have no idea if it is true and im not saying it is, but I would have expected it to be in the news given what was written in it. The email did read like it was from an unhinged person though, but that's just one thing in a mountain of fuck ups the government keep trying to either evade or Bury.

Saoirse82 · 12/07/2023 23:05

Tinkerbyebye · 12/07/2023 20:16

No smoke without fire, and as it’s now 4 people that have come forward about Huws supposed scummy behaviour it’s likely there is some truth

Why should Huw get away with it but according to you Tories shouldn’t?

The Tories get away with fucking everything!

Florenz · 12/07/2023 23:10

VeniVidiWeeWee · 12/07/2023 23:03

Unfortunately too few people buy any newspapers, instead relying on on-line "reporting".

If it's not newspapers, it's on-line "reporting".

At the end of the day, people will think what they want to think and vote how they want to vote. There's no point blaming people for reading the wrong news and voting the wrong way. You have to give them news they want to read and give them something that makes them want to vote for you instead of the other party.

VeniVidiWeeWee · 12/07/2023 23:14

@CrustyWingshield

So you're pasting false news.

That's responsible of you.

Butchyrestingface · 12/07/2023 23:15

This isn't an either/or scenario. It's possible to believe that RM and BJ are the absolute scum of the earth and there's a special place in hell reserved for them.

AND that a newsreader is sleazy, predatory, immoral, hypocritical and stupid.

Gigihadr · 12/07/2023 23:18

George Osborne supposedly raped a 16 year old but don’t see that in the headlines. Smokes and mirrors to distract from Tory scandals

Endlesssummer2022 · 12/07/2023 23:20

CrustyWingshield · 12/07/2023 22:47

I wonder what celeb they will pile on next. They are going to need a large supply of celebrities with questionable private lives in order to bury all the Tory fuck ups. Soon there will be nobody left on the TV.

It's getting to the point where as soon as things like this come out I look at the economic situation and what laws they are pushing through in even more detail to see what they are trying to distract from. Things like the gilt market, the fact they are gambling woth out pensions on very, very risky start ups, the property market forecasts and George Osbournes group email about his interesting sex life, so itvreally, really doesn't work.

The worst ever thing to happen to UK celebrities was Megan and Harry flicking the Vs and fucking off. After that, the press needed a regular and new supply of distraction stories.

UK celebrities need to do a Live Aid style charity single begging H&M to come back to act as human shields,

WandaWonder · 12/07/2023 23:21

Gigihadr · 12/07/2023 23:18

George Osborne supposedly raped a 16 year old but don’t see that in the headlines. Smokes and mirrors to distract from Tory scandals

so when tabloids post news it is wrong and when they don't post news it is wrong?

HRTQueen · 12/07/2023 23:22

The Sun have printed far worse

Huw Edwards was taking a risk and maybe he liked that who know but he has been shown up to be a sleeze bag regardless it he has committed a crime or not he always risked being outed for his behaviour

SueVineer · 12/07/2023 23:24

You’re paranoid

RedToothBrush · 12/07/2023 23:32

I'm sure Mr Murdoch will get his at the Pearly Gates when the time comes.

This, however, doesn't mean there isn't a real case about Huw Edwards being a sleaze who should have known better though.

VeniVidiWeeWee · 12/07/2023 23:35

HRTQueen · 12/07/2023 23:22

The Sun have printed far worse

Huw Edwards was taking a risk and maybe he liked that who know but he has been shown up to be a sleeze bag regardless it he has committed a crime or not he always risked being outed for his behaviour

And your evidence for this?

VeniVidiWeeWee · 12/07/2023 23:37

RedToothBrush · 12/07/2023 23:32

I'm sure Mr Murdoch will get his at the Pearly Gates when the time comes.

This, however, doesn't mean there isn't a real case about Huw Edwards being a sleaze who should have known better though.

And your evidence for this?

Christ, people on this site really like condemning people with no evidence whatsoever.

Laughingstock1991 · 12/07/2023 23:41

@VeniVidiWeeWee lets see your evidence that Murdoch saves kittens then shall we.

It’s interesting because in the led by donkeys film up thread that I posted about Murdoch it talks about how he had always insisted on editorial control in the Sun and how in the 80’s he printed some appalling homophobic shit about AIDS etc.

Plenty of evidence that he’s a nasty piece of work.

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mastertomsmum · 12/07/2023 23:41

Justcallmebebes · 12/07/2023 20:17

Murdoch is a press baron who weilds a lot of power. That's what media tycoons do. Control and manipulative the narrative.

You're BU to be so dramatic about it

Things don’t change if folk don’t speak out, how do you think women got the vote

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