Normally taking joy in other people’s misfortune would be a fucking atrocious idea (albeit one you can make evidently build a profitable media empire on), but today it’s totally deserved. High fives, whoops, and free drinks for everyone as News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB!
Don’t forget, though, he’s a slippery fucker who will almost certainly be up to something, scheming away working out how to keep lining his pockets by appealing to our basest human flaws, so be on your guard. It’s not over.
Doesn’t the idea that there are some countries you’re simply NOT ALLOWED TO VISIT freak you out? Who’s not allowing you? Who the fuck are they to say so? Last time I checked (just moments ago) we’re all just little blobs of biology on a big rock in space. And that little Blob in a hat is telling those little Blobs with backpacks that they’re not allowed to visit ‘his’ bit of rock because they’re not already from ‘his’ bit of rock.
What the fuck, Blob in a hat? If they were already from your bit of rock then they wouldn’t want to visit, would they? They’ve already got fucking passports so you know who they are. Stop being a dick and let ’em through. Good heavens!
We know that those foundations are trying to do noble things, but you know what? Most development happens at grass roots level, not at the hands of a mighty organisation. In fact one of the things we know develops LEAST are mighty organisations. Maybe if your companies had decent business ethics, cared about their customers as people, and stopped having to increase their prices to pay dividends to fat fucking investors, then there wouldn’t be as many of these problems that the foundations are trying to solve.
Just a thought.
And then let’s send the B-Ark first, full of TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants, tabloid journalists, financial device creators, everyone awaiting the rapture, all off to colonise it.
It’s not good to hold in rage. It hurts you and does no harm to them. Here are 5 things you can do about all this News of the World bullshit.
Oh, and some kind folk have set up a nice simple page where you can flex some direct democracy where you can send tweets to News of the World advertisers.
It’s not quite as satisfying as joining a lynch mob, nor as potent as stopping ANY transactions you have with News International, Sky, The Sun, The Times, etc, but you can do it right now and it will only take a few minutes.
And then to calm down afterwards, take a moment to remember that you know about all this thanks to quality investigative journalism from The Guardian, so journalists are not ALL amoral sociopaths.
(It’s a shame to know, though, that the Press Complaints Commission previously investigated this and ‘found no evidence’…)
Hacking the voicemail of a missing teenager in order to ‘get a story’ is really about the most depraved and fucking despicable act I’ve heard of. Yet again: fuck you Murdoch, and fuck you everyone who has bought the News of the World and funded this bunch of lying, justice-perverting, misogynist bunch of wide-boy morons.
Britain’s best selling newspaper? Fuck me! What a lot of fucking morons live here.
No matter how much you love looking at breasts, if you ever buy News of the World again everyone will now know that you think this type of behaviour is not only OK, but worth funding. Nice, thanks for that.
For the record, you might also remember that the same organisation owns Sky, The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Sun, amongst other holdings.
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