TheBanyanTree: Remembrance day: the other victims

[Peter Macinnis]

On 13/11/2010 10:34, Tom Smith wrote:

> ..as well as Iraq, Afghanistan, and opting out of the Kyoto Protocol.

Except that we did eventually opt in to Kyoto.

> To whatever exent voter perception is created by the media, U.S.
> voters have the burden of critically thinking through the lies, distortions
> and billions in influence peddling by the owner of the Wall Street Journal,
> the FOX News Network, the, Anglo-Australian, Rupert Murdoch.

Ah, yes, Rupert.  Not one of ours, not any more.  We gave him to the 
British as pay-back for convicts, and we believe the British passed him 
to the US as payback for certain events in and around 1776 and 1812. 
(Compare this with the vengeful gifting of golf from Scotland to 
England, who passed it to the US, who passed it on to Japan as payback 
for Pearl Harbour.)

By chance, I was at a 50-year high school reunion last night, and having 
once been peripherally one of Rupert's employees, the subject came up 
with an old mate.  We began reminiscing about the joys of hot metal, and 
then he opened up as the third beer took hold.  He was one of Rupert's 
peripatetic Australian editors, who had stints in pre-Wapping London 
(when the printers ruled Fleet Street) and also in New York.  He said 
that every Murdoch editor will tell the same story.

"Rupert never tries to influence his editors.  On the other hand, when a 
hatchetman calls up and says 'The Boss thinks that X needs to be given 
some stick over the Y affair,' if you're on $300,000 a year, you don't 
argue.  But Rupert never interferes."

peter

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