by Debs is Dead
lifted from a comment
Virtually every human who takes an interest in things beyond their
front gate will have noticed the announcement by News Corp that Rupert
Murdoch’s son James Murdoch has been appointed heir apparent of the despicable NewsCorp.
The Grauniad’s Sunday edition, "The Observer" provides a little more
detail on the position James has been stuffed in to, in a weekend
sycophantic puff piece called a ‘profile’.
Writer James Robinson must consider he may one day return to the
Murdoch stable, which famed for their elephantine memory of past
slights is not a mob you want to offend. He therefore describes James
as a ‘quiet family man’.
Which is interesting because as Robinson goes on to say:
. . ."a newly created post at its parent company News
Corp, where he will run the group’s European and Asian operations. He
takes responsibility for the Times, the Sun and the News of The World,
the group’s powerful stable of British newspapers, a move that makes
him the most powerful opinion-former in the country. . . ."
Those unfamiliar with NewsCorp’s english titles other than The
Times, should know that News of the World and the Sun are the two most
reviled rags in the foul swill which passes for an English media. They
specialize in black-mailer style traps of their ‘marks’ where anyone
who has had 15 minutes or more exposure especially by way of a rival
publication’s exclusive, is likely to be set up with a live boy, dead
girl, gerbil and a container load of whatever drug the rag’s
‘contractors’ can get their hands upon. The result is then video-taped
at some ‘country hotel’ away from London to ensure that the victim has
no redress, Yet another human has their world destroyed in the
interests of selling the nasty, racist and capitalist lies the papers
put between their revelations about minor pop singers, fading athletes
, and of course, "The Royals".
What a quiet family man hopes to achieve by supervising this blackmailer’s paradise is difficult to imagine.
It would be foolish to think that he will be entirely free of "Daddy’s" shadow. The last heir apparent number one son Lachlan Murdoch
had a very free hand but not only did he fuck up big by getting into a
silly bidding war/pissing contest with rival Australian Media magnate
Kerry Packer’s son James over sports franchises and their TV rights,
then he and James Packer blew millions on a Telco scam devised by a couple of poorer but less scrupulous "old school chums", he also managed to be implicated on the fringes of a corporate scam when Australian financier Lou Adler’s son Rodney played fast and loose with the shareholder’s funds.
Time has washed away most of the details but it appears the three
young anointed were a little too arrogant for their own good. James
Packer was also involved in the Insurance mess, I think he may have
lost a lot more of Daddy’s money than ‘Lauchie’ but since the Packers
have in the main preferred private company holdings to publicly listed
corporations, no one can be sure and without disgruntled
shareholders whining, it gets quickly forgotten. However Rupert didn’t
forget or forgive quite so easily and Lauchie was ‘encouraged’ to spend
more time in New York ‘learning the ropes’ than hooning around Double
Bay with his millionaire mates.
That became old fast, so Lauchie spat the dummy and came home.
That was when James was first mooted as heir in waiting.
Before Lauchie was Elisabeth,
named after her grandmother and Rupert’s mother, Elisabeth was the
eldest child, with an interest in business, so got first crack of the
whip. A capable businesswoman, Elisabeth appears to have fallen out
with Rupert’s right hand man Sam Chisholm, and therefore fell out of
favour with Rupert.
Personally I doubt she ever was in favour. Murdochian misogyny would
not allow the empire to be run by a woman. Rupert sees women as the
duplicitous power behind the throne, never sitting upon it. Rupert has
founded his empire on exploiting women in one form or another, either
by way of his scantily clad page 3 ‘girls’ or by portraying them as
harlots and seducers in countless "Sex Scandals".)
The innate misogyny probably stems from the treatment he received at
the hands of Elisabeth Murdoch 1, his mother, as a child. Although they
lived in a huge mansion; when Rupert was allowed home from his spartan
and oppressive boarding school he would be ‘put up’ in a sleep-out.
This structure was made of plywood and mosquito netting and set in a
remote corner of the estate. The ‘sleep out’ had no running water or
electricity. Rupert was expected to live a lifestyle in direct contrast
to his wealth in the belief it would "toughen him up".
Rupert was the child of media boss Sir Keith Murdoch. Keith’s interference in the running of WW1 is a typical piece of Murdochian media manipulation.
Although ambitious Keith was an out and out bumbler in comparison to
Rupert. The edge in Rupert probably comes from Elisabeth who was her
husband’s intellectual superior.
Elisabeth 1 who makes Barbara Bush seem like Florence Nightingale in
comparison, manipulated Rupert into his father’s job ahead of more
worthy candidates (remember the Murdochs have always used other
people’s money) by using the iron paw concealed beneath a velvet glove
routine which Rupert himself has become famous for. I suspect his long
term adulation of the Thatcher thing, is related to the fear he has
always had for his mother. He saw two very similar people in Margaret
Thatcher and Elisabeth Murdoch.
Unfortunately for James Murdoch, he is unlikely to get the opportunity to step into his father’s shoes any time soon.
Hell Elisabeth 1 is still in charge anyhow, and
she is only 98. She will be bossing around her servants, bullying them
into getting everything ready for this year’s family Xmas party. I
betcha that will be a grim Presbyterian affair where all emotion is
subsumed to the great god mammon.
By the time Media Corp does need a replacement for Rupert, the
offspring of wife number 3, Wendi Deng, two daughters named Grace and
Chloe will loom large in the Murdoch consciousness. Wendi Deng is by
all accounts more like Elisabeth 1 and Margaret Thatcher than his
previous wives were, so she may succeed in trumping his distaste for a
female heir.
Third time’s a charm is not more than a long shot.
P.S. Others who also share a distaste for reducing a human’s life to
a series of scandals and/or repeating gossip, may want to remember that
the Murdochs live well on their lack of scruple or discretion about
other humans’ existence.
I have no compunction whatsoever about repeating Murdoch gossip, any
slight twists or exaggerations to be found in this account should be
regarded as an homage to the master distorter.