{"id":891,"date":"2011-07-18T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=891"},"modified":"2012-08-17T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T00:09:59","slug":"murdoch-is-worse-than-hearst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/07\/murdoch-is-worse-than-hearst\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Murdoch is worse than Hearst&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over in the U.K., Metropolitan Police head Sir Paul Stephenson resigned yesterday, and Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has just announced that he too is resigning. I&#8217;m watching a live press conference on the BBC Web site with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London. The press are asking very pointed questions, like sharks circling bloody meat. &#8220;Do you regret being so whole-heartedly in support of the Murdochs?&#8221; &#8220;Er, well, in light of what <em>New of the World<\/em> &#8230; democracy &#8230; we&#8217;ve begun &#8230; nothing has been proved, by the way, against any of these officers &#8230; blah blah blah.&#8221; &#8220;It is a question of your judgement that is in question as well here, as mayor of London.&#8221; &#8220;I gave an answer based on what I knew then &#8230; blah blah blah [defensive coverage of his rear end]&#8230;.&#8221; &#8220;Do you apologize mocking the people who brought this up, those people who were right all along?&#8217; No he doesn&#8217;t, next question please.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Dad yesterday about this Murdoch phone hacking mess. Dad&#8217;s father was a newspaperman, so Dad has been watching the news business for a long time. Dad&#8217;s answer: &#8220;Murdoch is worse that Hearst.&#8221; That&#8217;s really bad. So it&#8217;s looking like British democracy is owned by the rich corporations just as is American democracy, which is a chilling thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over in the U.K., Metropolitan Police head Sir Paul Stephenson resigned yesterday, and Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has just announced that he too is resigning. I&#8217;m watching a live press conference on the BBC Web site with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London. The press are asking very pointed questions, like sharks circling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/07\/murdoch-is-worse-than-hearst\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Murdoch is worse than Hearst&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}