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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving

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  • Craig Ranapia, in reply to Hebe,

    Dunno what’s patronising about noting that she’s very clever, utterly ruthless.

    Yeah, I know. The whole “Wendy Deng = Anna Nicole Smith if her brains were as large as tits + gold-digging homewrecker x scheming Dragon Lady” meme isn’t objectionable at all. My bad.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Hilary Stace,

    By the way great piece on the art of corporate political lobbying in NZ on the Nation just now (TV3). Even Matthew Hooten looked uncomfortable when challenged by the young investigative journalist. Hopefully, the overseas experience will now enable such exposure here.

    Wgtn • Since Jun 2008 • 3229 posts Report Reply

  • Hilary Stace,

    A long time right-wing Telegraph journalist now questions his own ideological assumptions, and wouldn't it be great if this started happening in NZ too.

    Wgtn • Since Jun 2008 • 3229 posts Report Reply

  • merc, in reply to Hilary Stace,

    ...let's hope.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • nzlemming, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    My bad

    Actually, it is. Did you ever stop to question that your reception of what people write here might be coloured by your own prejudices?

    Waikanae • Since Nov 2006 • 2937 posts Report Reply

  • Lucy Stewart, in reply to Hilary Stace,

    A long time right-wing Telegraph journalist now questions his own ideological assumptions, and wouldn’t it be great if this started happening in NZ too.

    Notice that the man still thinks everything anyone on the Left has ever proposed is utterly and thoroughly wrong, it's just that there's a vague possibility we may be right about there being a problem.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2105 posts Report Reply

  • Kumara Republic, in reply to merc,

    ...let's hope.

    Bernard Hickey, so far. And Gareth Morgan converted from Kyoto-scepticism to Kyoto-agnosticism upon publishing Poles Apart.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Hilary Stace,

    wouldn't it be great if this started happening in NZ too

    Like Bernard Hickey's repentance?

    snap

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand, in reply to Hilary Stace,

    A very good start, indeed. As I suggested on FB, this
    article should be nailed to the forehead of every ACT Party member.

    In other news, The Guardian picks the Unknown Mortal Orchestra as its Best Band of the Day no. 1060, and The Word has produced a podcast with Neil Finn.

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • nzlemming, in reply to Lucy Stewart,

    Notice that the man still thinks everything anyone on the Left has ever proposed is utterly and thoroughly wrong, it’s just that there’s a vague possibility we may be right about there being a problem

    Still, that's an improvement over the usual "lefties are all pinko commie deviants, sucking on the teat of Mother Russia" stuff that often passes for right wing commentary in your part of the world.

    Waikanae • Since Nov 2006 • 2937 posts Report Reply

  • DexterX, in reply to Sacha,

    You mean like his speech at the Labour's (new) economic dream conference.

    Simple minds indeed. - "I promised you a miracle" - should be the theme song.

    Here is the admission:
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10676862

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1224 posts Report Reply

  • Lucy Stewart, in reply to nzlemming,

    Still, that’s an improvement over the usual “lefties are all pinko commie deviants, sucking on the teat of Mother Russia” stuff that often passes for right wing commentary in your part of the world.

    You forgot "Satan-worshipping".

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2105 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia, in reply to nzlemming,

    Actually, it is. Did you ever stop to question that your reception of what people write here might be coloured by your own prejudices?

    I'm very prejudiced against people who think it's OK to talk smack about women as long as you don't like their politics, or what their husbands do for a living. I get enormously fucked off when women in politics or business are shat on as "ruthless" and "power-hungry" when men aren't; and apparently if said woman is married to someone the enlightened disdain, well there's nothing that she's not capable of, right?

    Too fucking right I'm prejudiced against that kind of crap. The question is, Mark: Why aren't you?

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    Surely we call the cis- males et al out too?

    As we recognise any bloody humanbeing who is, as being a power-hungry & driven person? And, as some of us do, think of them as what is wrong with the current human species.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Stephen Judd,

    Craig old bean: I don't think there's much of a double standard going on here. Wouldn't anyone characterise Rupert as ruthless? Or power hungry? I just searched Google for "Rupert Murdoch"+ruthless, and "Rupert Murdoch"+power-hungry and I got truckloads of results characterising him this way. I don't think it's unfair to label a person who aspires to emulate him the same way, no matter what sex they are.

    And yes, if you seek out to marry someone whose character I disdain, I will, prima facie, assume you might also have a bad character. Seems pretty reasonable to me, let alone with the actual back story Deng has.

    I think you protest just a bit much in this case.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 3122 posts Report Reply

  • nzlemming, in reply to Craig Ranapia,

    Too fucking right I'm prejudiced against that kind of crap. The question is, Mark: Why aren't you?

    You have no idea where my prejudices lie, but you were the first one one who mentioned "Anna Nicole Smith if her brains were as large as tits + gold-digging homewrecker x scheming Dragon Lady” when hebe had said:

    does anyone else think Wendi set up the pie attack? That theory works on so many levels.

    which I, for one took as a humourous question, based on an extremely quick reaction by Deng to the attack (obviously you did not), and then:

    What she really, really wants is control of News to go to her angels. Lachie, tick. James, tick. Then when Rupe dies, Wendi takes over as "Princess Regent"...It's beautiful, there are so many layers and so many years left of this story.

    posited as a theory about someone who has married a billionaire but her kids won't have any control of the company once daddy dies. That's no different to any of the other speculation aired on this and othe blogs. There's no mention of gold-digging, dragon ladies, homewrecking or large breasts, yet your filters managed to infer those and decide that someone was being a) racist, b) sexist, and c) I'm not sure ist the rest falls under.

    "Look first to the plank in your own eye"

    Waikanae • Since Nov 2006 • 2937 posts Report Reply

  • nzlemming, in reply to Lucy Stewart,

    You forgot “Satan-worshipping"

    Damn, I always forget that. I’d better go sacrifice a chicken to make sure He’s not angry.

    edit: Wife says “What do you mean “he”?" but has now decided that Satan has stuffed up a lot lately and so clearly must be a man

    Waikanae • Since Nov 2006 • 2937 posts Report Reply

  • DexterX, in reply to nzlemming,

    It is Ok by me to mock Wendy Deng and the Murdoch family on any level whatsoever – Go hard.

    This family in addition to threatening and buying officials, the police, politicians and a silence of sorts have acted so far above the rule of law it isn’t that much further of a stretch to consider that they could have had people knocked off.

    I mean you blow the whistle, spill the beans and then you top yourself – really.

    I think it is highly likely the rot they have created is extensive enough to see that the odd strategic sacrifice that gets made is treated lightly and in the end has a genteel retirement of sorts.

    Mr Murdoch doesn’t appear to me to be too worried.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1224 posts Report Reply

  • nzlemming,

    Fucking hell. Just watching the Norway stuff on BBC World. 91 dead between Oslo and the island.

    Waikanae • Since Nov 2006 • 2937 posts Report Reply

  • Kumara Republic, in reply to nzlemming,

    Fucking hell. Just watching the Norway stuff on BBC World. 91 dead between Oslo and the island.

    So far the guilty party is rumoured to be a far-right extremist, given the Norwegian Labour Party was likely directly targeted. And tin-foil hattery pinning all the blame on al-Qaeda rings as hollow as Jose Maria Aznar's blaming ETA for the Madrid bombings, because al-Qaeda typically don't discriminate when they blow shit up. So it has all the hallmarks of a McVeigh-esque attack than a bin Laden-esque one.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report Reply

  • nzlemming, in reply to Kumara Republic,

    So it seems. The Norwegian Police have said they're holding him under terrorist legislation but they're not saying much more at the moment. I'm staying away from CNN and Fox but even BBC is a little breathless.

    Waikanae • Since Nov 2006 • 2937 posts Report Reply

  • chris,

    Mawkland • Since Jan 2010 • 1302 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    I'm guessing Amy Winehouse's death will chew up many column centimetres in the UK papers as well...
    ...it'll be fish and chips off Rupert's face next week and it'll all be back to 'normal'...
    SNAFU...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • DexterX, in reply to chris,

    And nothing against Mr Key, insert a couple of pipes and he'd make a great Hulusi

    Jenny Shipley has several.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1224 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    …it’ll be fish and chips off Rupert’s face next week and it’ll all be back to ‘normal’…

    And I assume the rest of the British media will be taking the high ground, just as they've stopped running celebutard gossip, invasive trauma porn and pap-smear-arazzi photos of zero news value? To coin a phrase, yeah. Right.

    But on the wider point, Ian, you're right -- and nobody should be at all surprised. How soon we forget the public rage and anguished media navel-gazing about how the nasty media killed Saint Diana. What really changed?

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

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