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johnny9fingers) wrote2011-07-19 07:59 pm
johnny9fingers) wrote2011-07-19 07:59 pm
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer still.
Now if Ol' Roops is as canny as I think he is, he'll consolidate on his "get-out-of-jail-free" card.
Let's see how visionary Ol' Roops actually is. The most out-there idea I can come up with is to initiate joint ventures between BSkyB/SKY networks worldwide and the BBC/PSB (but not too likely). I mean, if you can't get the police to get you what you want anymore, closer ties with the biggest-reach competitors seems the way to rehabilitate the old image. A media Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact would also allow access into normally unreached markets: if not from without, then from within. A synthesis that appeals from its symmetry. Of course, courting the Beeb and the like will take some doing.
IRL best guess: simply not possible. But making Murdoch and the Beeb co-dependent in certain markets has appealed to my sense of the absurd. The clash of cultures would be such a pleasure to watch.
As is, without there being actual evidence, the performance of all three (Murdoch Senior, Murdoch Junior, & Rebekah Brooks) before the committee has been good enough to pass for innocent-of-serious-wrongdoing. It was definitely and certainly someone else's fault, and those someones else are now in the frame.
But, because they were ultimately responsible, they are co-operating fully with all the forces of good (with their rights reserved, as is proper) in this investigation.
Can't fault them there: I'd do the same.
[Tips hat, ruefully, to the Old Man, the Young Pretender, and the Scarlett-Haired Woman.]
Very-well done: 9/10. If there are no loose ends it's all back to normal at the start-of-business next week: loose ends, of course, can change things.
Let's see how visionary Ol' Roops actually is. The most out-there idea I can come up with is to initiate joint ventures between BSkyB/SKY networks worldwide and the BBC/PSB (but not too likely). I mean, if you can't get the police to get you what you want anymore, closer ties with the biggest-reach competitors seems the way to rehabilitate the old image. A media Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact would also allow access into normally unreached markets: if not from without, then from within. A synthesis that appeals from its symmetry. Of course, courting the Beeb and the like will take some doing.
IRL best guess: simply not possible. But making Murdoch and the Beeb co-dependent in certain markets has appealed to my sense of the absurd. The clash of cultures would be such a pleasure to watch.
As is, without there being actual evidence, the performance of all three (Murdoch Senior, Murdoch Junior, & Rebekah Brooks) before the committee has been good enough to pass for innocent-of-serious-wrongdoing. It was definitely and certainly someone else's fault, and those someones else are now in the frame.
But, because they were ultimately responsible, they are co-operating fully with all the forces of good (with their rights reserved, as is proper) in this investigation.
Can't fault them there: I'd do the same.
[Tips hat, ruefully, to the Old Man, the Young Pretender, and the Scarlett-Haired Woman.]
Very-well done: 9/10. If there are no loose ends it's all back to normal at the start-of-business next week: loose ends, of course, can change things.
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The custard tart was a treat, and seemed to wake Old Roop up a bit.
:D
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actually what happens next could be very interesting. Other countries, other businesses as crook'd as theirs (oh, 90+% of the US for instance).... it could be interesting.
Good, probably not. but definitely interesting.
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