(2011/08/17) The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 3 (Special Event)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 August 2011
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Edition #519
The Great Newscorp Scandal Part 3
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Act 1: Murdoch's testimony to Parlement - Wait wait don't tell me Air Date: 7-23-11
Song 1: Gimme Sympathy - Metric
Act 2: The Murdoch's testimony - On the Media Air Date: 7-22-11
Song 2: Here comes the rain again - The Eurythmics
Act 3: David Carr on new NY Times Documentary, Murdoch - Colbert Report Air Date: 07-19-11
Song 3: Miss misery - Elliott Smith
Act 4: Who Feels Sorry For Rupert Murdoch - Young Turks
Song 4: Sur Le Fil - Yann Tiersen
Act 5: Fox News Lags on Hacking Scandal Coverage - Media Matters Air Date: 7-21-11
Act 6: Addicted to hack Part 3 - The Bugle Air Date: 7-21-11
Song 6: Mother - Danzig
Act 7: Why the media loves the Murdoch scandal - On the Media Air Date: 7-22-11
Song 7: Some might say - Oasis
Act 8: Murdoch reality show - Le Show Air Date: 7-24-11
Song 8: Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Act 9: Should Fox News Be Investigated - Young Turks
Song 9: One - Amiee Mann
Act 10: Bill O'Reilly's coverage of the Murdoch scandal - Jimmy Dore Show Air Date: 7-21-11
Song 10: Fast Eddie - Outernational
Act 11: Murdoch still in a lot of trouble - Citizen Radio
Final comments on empathy, rationality and food choices
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Pie-Thrower Vs Rupert Murdoch's Wife - Young Turks
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| 0:30.0 | Here's your next quote. This is the most humble die of my life. That was somebody testifying before the British parliament who had the most humble day in his 80 years of life on Wednesday. This was my favorite story all week. Rupert Murdoch! Rupert Murdoch! Yes! Rupert Murdoch appeared in front of a committee of the British parliament along with his son, James Murdoch, who looks just like his father would if his father were still alive. |
| 1:00.0 | Murdoch testified that despite being a billionaire global press baron, he's got a lot in common with the average working guy, namely neither of them have any idea what's been going on in Murdoch's company. |
| 1:13.0 | Then a comedian broke into the room to smash a pie into Murdoch's face and on international TV Murdoch's wife Wendy Dang Murdoch left up to defender husband with a sharp right cross. |
| 1:26.0 | It was the most vicious thing a member of the Murdoch family had done to an enemy since that morning's paper was published. |
| 1:36.0 | Why do people throw pies? I mean, it seemed like... How did that get passed in here? I mean, it seemed like throwing a scone or a muffin, I mean... |
| 1:44.0 | It would be more British. Well, I think like with a muffin, you could even get a little movement on it. Yeah, like a hanging curve muffin, you know, right? |
| 1:53.0 | A lot of Murdoch's rivals in Britain and here in the US have really been enjoying the story of their running headlines like Murdoch, Empire, Crumbling, Fox News, of course, went with terrorist attacks innocent job creator with toxic desserts. |
| 2:23.0 | The Beatles, all the wrong and the stars, all the serious things, they've done a big mistake here. |
| 2:33.0 | Come on baby, play with the sun, like here comes the sun, come on baby, play with the sun, like here comes the sun. |
| 2:49.0 | So I want to start with Mr. James Murdoch. |
| 2:52.0 | On Tuesday, Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corporation, and his son James Murdoch, Chairman of several news court properties, testified before the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee of Parliament in London. |
| 3:06.0 | They were answering questions about the news of the World Scandal in which an undetermined number of their employees illegally hacked into people's private voicemail. |
| 3:16.0 | An inquiry that by week's end had narrowed to the Watergate question, what did the Murdoch's know and when did they know it? |
| 3:24.0 | When two of the tabloids former executives questioned James Murdoch's testimony, claiming never to have seen a 2008 corporate email confirming wider newsroom complicity and hacking, |
| 3:36.0 | one member of Parliament notified Scotland Yard asking for an investigation into possible obstruction of justice. |
| 3:44.0 | It may not sound terribly serious to be testifying before the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee, but it is serious as evidenced by the where really sorry statements at the beginning of the testimony to members of Parliament, both from James. |
| 4:01.0 | First of all, I would like to say as well just how sorry I am. |
| 4:05.0 | And from Rupert. |
| 4:07.0 | This is the most humble day of my life. |
| 4:09.0 | Sorry. Humboldt. But not to blame. This is MP Jim Sheridan addressing Rupert Murdoch. |
| 4:16.0 | Mr. Mother, do you accept that ultimately you are responsible for this whole fiasco? |
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