tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post841782070821433186..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Murdoch Mafia Warns Gary LinekerTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-30004854198816973802016-05-06T18:48:31.673+01:002016-05-06T18:48:31.673+01:00You should update the article with Gary's resp...You should update the article with Gary's response:<br />https://twitter.com/garylineker/status/728154785300418560Rangjanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04837666680562854399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-71396269128278895982016-05-06T09:49:31.198+01:002016-05-06T09:49:31.198+01:00Furthermore, Winston Smith ended up loving Big Bro...Furthermore, Winston Smith ended up loving Big Brother.<br /><br />Is there any better description of a Murdoch-Rothermere jobsworth?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-68816427735985033422016-05-06T00:25:06.491+01:002016-05-06T00:25:06.491+01:00Getting near the time that wearing SJW t-shirts wi...Getting near the time that wearing SJW t-shirts will be a good and necessary thing to be doing. <br /><br />How low we have sunk, when having concern for one's fellow beings is seen as something to be attacked.pete cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-42832416327719102572016-05-05T23:06:06.372+01:002016-05-05T23:06:06.372+01:00I think 'Winston Smith' perfectly describe...I think 'Winston Smith' perfectly describes a News Corpse hack or indeed, many of Fleet Street's 'finest'. They spread the propaganda but will eventually become victims of the machine (and sooner rather than later)and will be spat out and caste aside. Many will be jobless and if they had any sense they would do what my good friend & ex-News Ltd writer did 8 years ago after sniffing the wind accurately : got himself a taxi license, grabbed redundancy and is living blissfully ferrying folk around town and imitating Private Eye's A Taxi Driver Writes...http://www.thesocialshuttle.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/08385625594884495221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-2694663428877491352016-05-05T20:10:18.047+01:002016-05-05T20:10:18.047+01:00@Anonymous at 19:28.
Wrong(1). Smith told lies an...@Anonymous at 19:28.<br /><br />Wrong(1). Smith told lies and twisted history, as do Murdoch-Rothermere jobsworths. That was his job. He was a victim in the sense that eventually evil makes a victim of everybody, including its perpetrators. He rebelled too late - that was his tragedy.<br /><br />Wrong(2). Whittingdale was on the committee up to last year. As for someone like him holding the Minister to account for anything......<br /><br />So, yes, you are a pedant. And wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-57593268737298674282016-05-05T19:28:58.156+01:002016-05-05T19:28:58.156+01:00Anonymous (5 MAY 2016 AT 12:51). Winston Smith is ...Anonymous (5 MAY 2016 AT 12:51). Winston Smith is the victim in Orwell's 1984, not the villain, and Whittingdale is not on the Media, Culture and Sport Select Committee (in fact, the whole parliamentary purpose of such a committee is to hold the Secretary of State to a degree of accountability). This isn't pedantry for the sake of it. Everyone makes mistakes, but these howlers simply undermine what could otherwise be a fairly sound argument.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-42185575211756886272016-05-05T13:45:01.579+01:002016-05-05T13:45:01.579+01:00When it comes to culture, the current crop of Tori...When it comes to culture, the current crop of Tories see only pound signs. Zelo Street is right in identifying what Rupert Murdoch wants - the BBC reduced to maybe one rolling news channel, and the rest of the TV spectrum a wall of advertorial and Simon Cowell's pension fund. As for radio, a million variations on Heart FM. <br /><br />Always worth remembering that Jeremy Hunt is the guy who sat through the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Olympics and asked where was Shakespeare and World War 2, Through palmed faces and gritted teeth it was pointed out that a) the Olympics are not about triumphalism and military might (well, not since 1936...), and that b) the opening speech by Kenneth Branagh was from The Tempest, which is by one Mr Shakespeare...<br /><br />Or that on the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, all John Whittingdale could come up with was how much money Shakespeare tourism rakes in per year.<br /><br />They see only money. They are barbarians. Andy McDonaldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-84068288444378576082016-05-05T12:51:10.169+01:002016-05-05T12:51:10.169+01:00Quite soon Murdoch's gobshite boot boys will h...Quite soon Murdoch's gobshite boot boys will have to find a new target or a new "issue."<br /><br />Putin hasn't been done for a few weeks so that might be one of the upcoming targets. Or China. Or indeed anybody who gets in the way of the Yank and European establishments.<br /><br />By comparison, the dear old Beeb - already compromised by employing Murdochite loons like Neil - is small beer. But nevertheless important because what's left of fairness and decency in it stands in the way of complete far right monopoly of media. <br /><br />As with the NHS, the overall strategy is to liquidate any semblance of co-operation and collective social funding of vital assets. Everything is targeted for profiteering by spivs and tenth rate suited up economic hoodlums.<br /><br />Poor old Gary Lineker simply got caught in the crossfire. But what this usefully illustrates is just how extreme is the Murdoch-Rothermere Axis of Evil. Just imagine what kind of society would emerge if these Winston Smiths ever get complete control.<i>1984</i> doesn't even begin to describe it - but we're well down that road already.<br /><br />Nor should we forget that when Jeremy "DickHead" Hunt was running Culture and Meeja he was poised to hand over yet more media to Murdoch until the hacking scandal broke. And with Whittingdale running the Meeja select committee you can reasonably forecast what direction <i>that</i> will take.<br /><br />The point is their desperation and hate knows no bounds. After all, you could scarcely find a more harmless target than Gary Lineker. Then again, that makes him an ideal target for hard right cowardly bullies and jobsworths. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-78680806121504188772016-05-05T12:24:25.347+01:002016-05-05T12:24:25.347+01:00It says a lot about The Sun that they consider soc...It says a lot about The Sun that they consider social justice and moral worth to be things that apparently deserve criticism...David Austhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07984268619911877152noreply@blogger.com