My view so far...

www.kingofhits.co.uk/index.php/Attitudes...doch-at-Leveson.html

KingOfHit$ hot on Pop, but in denial on for-The-Rope Rupe's Mob-Rule Media dragging gutter Brit-meeja from the 1970s into the 19Haties-ongoing Sewer Of The World. Niceguy Rupe? Hey, Mr Hister was kind to dogs n kidz.

Previously unknown (since mediEVIL Lynch Mobs)SewerOfTheWorld-made Paulsgrove & national riots hounding innocents including children PLUS a "Paedia-fuckin-trician" from their homes - leading to SUNazi-style 'Notifications' in peacetime UK - WTF ?

Talk about a Tory Turkey voting for it's own Xmas.

Check TRUE BRIT late great John Peel, Indie On Sunday 29 Aug '04 "RUPERT MURDOCH HAS DESTROYED MOST OF WHAT WAS GOOD ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.

"www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment...lescence-558309.html

Yes; that is certainly one viewpoint; I don't agree with it and thinks it takes the eye off the real ball.

Well I have watched all day and think Murdoch is clearly older and more frail than he was; loses patience very easily; can't quite hear all the questions and sometimes misses the point, repeating himself.

I can say from personal experience - this happens to all of us.

Not being a conspiracy theorist, I don't put any more blame on him than on any other proprietor - I simply feel that, being more successful, News Int has attracted more transgressions amongst its staff.

Looking at appalling papers like The People - if more hacks on that Mirror title had been any good, there would have been more breakages of rules... not that anyone would have noticed.

HaventAClue wrote:
KingOfHit$ hot on Pop, but in denial on for-The-Rope Rupe's Mob-Rule Media dragging gutter Brit-meeja from the 1970s into the 19Haties-ongoing Sewer Of The World. Niceguy Rupe? Hey, Mr Hister was kind to dogs n kidz.

Previously unknown (since mediEVIL Lynch Mobs)SewerOfTheWorld-made Paulsgrove & national riots hounding innocents including children PLUS a "Paedia-fuckin-trician" from their homes - leading to SUNazi-style 'Notifications' in peacetime UK - WTF ?

Talk about a Tory Turkey voting for it's own Xmas.

Check TRUE BRIT late great John Peel, Indie On Sunday 29 Aug '04 "RUPERT MURDOCH HAS DESTROYED MOST OF WHAT WAS GOOD ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.

"www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment...lescence-558309.html

What language is this??

The 'clue' is the kind of talk that thug/spiv/coward Rupe-For-The-Rope uses every day to get his way resulting in his ex-slags now pimping the same in Trinity Mirror Group/Peephole etc - NewZac/Prozac/Muzac same shit different dogs.

Just today for global billions the ALIEN MONSTA MURDARK showed his utter guttersnipe contempt for Brit-Court Queen & Country when unknowingly overheard by TRUE BRIT Grauniad hack, Dan Sabbagh,

" Rupert to advisers in courtroom: 'Let's get him to get this fucking thing over with today' ."

Yeah, let's get 'This fucking ALIEN Thing' outta Grim Britain and replace the 'grate' with 'Great' again.

Luv & Peace - Over to CluelessInSeattle.

Yes well fine for one post but no more please; gives me a headache.

So let's see how Murdoch goes down today. For me he's a brilliant but fading elderly proprietor who's done incredibly well in business; ruthless, sometimes with erratic morality but no worse than hundreds of over company bosses in different industries.

I think the serious and damaging attitude is blaming him for the ghastly behaviour of others; more in News International because it's bigger and better than most. Next worst? The Mail.

But it's the people who work under him - usually very well but the better the employee, the bigger the mistakes will be (by definition; nobody notices mistakes in papers nobody reads; TV nobody watches). And those who work under THEM. And ultimately - US, who buy it, want it, prefer bad news to good, like sleazy scandal and gossip.

It's neither the bosses nor the industry that's to blame. It's the drones in the structure.

Great line by Leveson after question and answer between Murdoch and Jay on the Rebekah/This One incident - "I think we may be coming back to that".

Aaah, diddums....

OK forget the fun, check the facts TRUE OZ-BRIT peerless St Pilger:

johnpilger.com/articles/amid-the-murdoch...of-business-as-usual
johnpilger.com/articles/amid-the-murdoch...of-business-as-usual
johnpilger.com/articles/the-bbc-is-on-murdoch-s-side
johnpilger.com/articles/flying-the-flag-faking-the-news
johnpilger.com/articles/welcome-to-the-w...-s-first-murdochracy
johnpilger.com/articles/murdoch-a-cultural-chernobyl

To close the thread; there will be a variety of opinions as to how it went but I have a feeling the majority will think it unedifying that an old man was bullied. For those commenting that the News of the World specialised in bullying the vulnerable I'd say - exactly and I found that unpleasant too.

And it went on for many years before Murdoch bought it. I remember.