Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: " To prostitute yourself to media interests is not a good way to be" https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address DexterX https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258466#post258466 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258466#post258466 This makes it downright funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1AJjnl2y8U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnXFVbQCnqU&feature=related

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 05:49:02 +1200 DexterX https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258465#post258465 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258465#post258465 Horses for courses – baffled be sure – A just course of scapegoat to be served with a side order of pervert and a witch hunt where they find a real witch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18073701

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/15/rebekah-brooks-charged-perverting-course-justice?fb=native

After the expensive side show runs it course she will, most likely, at least have a…

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 05:39:56 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258464#post258464 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258464#post258464 Murdoch is part of perpetuating a form of puntofijismo in the UK.

Political parties (all the mainstream ones) operate within parameters acceptable to Murdoch. In return, they receive broad support/neutrality rather than the vilification applied to Labour under Callaghan, Foot and Kinnock, who were outside this range.

They also furnish…

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 03:33:14 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258463#post258463 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258463#post258463 If the print unions had won, what would have happened? Newspapers *were* commercially viable in 1985 (Britain had at least seven national dailies). They'd have stayed so until the Internet came in.

At that stage, we might have gone quickly from expensive newspapers to free websites without going through the…

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 03:16:30 +1200 Matthew Littlewood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258457#post258457 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258457#post258457 No, I think what was on show wasn't something she learned in the last year, but what took her to the top of the organisations for which she worked. It was both highly impressive and unnerving.

Absolutely. The Vanity Fair background profile on her is required reading. It seems…

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 21:52:17 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258367#post258367 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258367#post258367 adult play-time in leagues conjured up to provide content
especially when such activity is burdened with high flying aspirations only a small number can even contemplate, and the rest of us are supposed to be unquestioningly inspired by. And its all about money anyway.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 09:26:45 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258360#post258360 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258360#post258360 Mon, 14 May 2012 23:36:57 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258359#post258359 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258359#post258359 completely overbored on ‘entertainment’
very nice calibre of pun....

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 23:26:28 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258355#post258355 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258355#post258355 What mystifies me is why anyone “needs” (mainly) crap TV content at all…from any source. I suspect as a society we have all gone completely overbored on ‘entertainment’…and consume far too much of it. Entertainment used to be something you did for yourself and your friends and the wealthy –… ]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 22:18:26 +1200 Steve Withers https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258350#post258350 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258350#post258350 Mon, 14 May 2012 21:57:12 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258254#post258254 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258254#post258254 No, I think what was on show wasn't something she learned in the last year, but what took her to the top of the organisations for which she worked. It was both highly impressive and unnerving.

Yeah I watched and saw how she had gone from office secretary to the…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 17:04:18 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258252#post258252 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258252#post258252 she had the awareness and easy confidence of a high-functioning psychopath.

Or without being that offensive, Russell, someone who has probably spent weeks – if not months – with the best lawyers and media trainers a lot of money can hire drilling her on every possibly line of questioning.

No,…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 16:59:26 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258250#post258250 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258250#post258250 Brooks' appearance at Leveson last night was tremendous viewing. As I tweeted in the midst of it, she had the awareness and easy confidence of a high-functioning psychopathSociopath came to mind for me. Thirty dinners with a PM was an awful lot — once every six to eight weeks. ]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 16:55:08 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258245#post258245 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258245#post258245 As I tweeted in the midst of it, she had the awareness and easy confidence of a high-functioning psychopath.

The day before I'd watched the brilliant but harrowing Herzog C4 series on capital punishment in the US. The guy who featured on the second of the three was really chilling…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 16:18:07 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258232#post258232 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258232#post258232 BChipping away at the Govt…

Which isn’t actually what this enquiry is supposed to be about. (Anyone remember, let alone still care about, journalists wiping their arse on any concept of privacy?) It’s vaguely irrelevant reading the English papers right now when regime change in France – and paralysis in…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 08:37:00 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258166#post258166 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258166#post258166 Chipping away at the Govt…
Rebekah ‘babbling’ Brooks testifies…

Brooks' appearance at Leveson last night was tremendous viewing. As I tweeted in the midst of it, she had the awareness and easy confidence of a high-functioning psychopath.

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 17:03:21 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258137#post258137 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258137#post258137 Chipping away at the Govt...
Rebekah 'babbling' Brooks testifies...
Brooks said she used to exchange frequent text messages with Cameron, including during the 2010 election campaign when the Conservative leader was still in opposition.
"Occasionally he would sign them off LOL, lots of love. Actually, until I told him it…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 14:24:23 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258081#post258081 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258081#post258081 Fri, 11 May 2012 22:32:45 +1200 Matthew Littlewood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258079#post258079 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258079#post258079 ..inspiring Citizen Kane. #silverlining

So much so that Hearst pretty much ordered a near-complete clampdown on it. And won.

Pauline Kael's Raising Kane, is absolutely recommended reading. As expansive, influential and contentious as the film itself (in its small-scale way), even if it is a little harsh on Welles and…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 22:10:54 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258078#post258078 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258078#post258078 William Randolph Hearst. We have him to thank for

..inspiring Citizen Kane. #silverlining

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 21:57:07 +1200 Matthew Littlewood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258077#post258077 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258077#post258077 Even Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has freely acknowledged the debt the rest of Fleet Street owes Murdoch for forcing technological change in the 1980s. He had to break the print unions to do it, and that got nasty – but those unions were hurting both publishers and readers by refusing… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 21:53:14 +1200 StepDoh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258074#post258074 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258074#post258074 Fri, 11 May 2012 21:15:47 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258054#post258054 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258054#post258054 Coulson held £40,000 Murdoch shares while working at Number Ten
Andy Coulson today said politicians were keen to ingratiate themselves with The Sun.
During his testimony at the Leveson Inquiry, he admitted 'it is fair to say' that all politicians were keen to get close to the newspaper.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:21:05 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258043#post258043 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258043#post258043 Murdoch didn’t invent junk food news, but he certainly perfected it.

There’s another name – from the Yellow Journalism era – that comes to mind: William Randolph Hearst. We have him to thank for the ongoing neo-superstition known as cannabis prohibition – and for that matter, history’s second-largest exercise in…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:28:34 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258042#post258042 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258042#post258042 Of course, as Gavin Ellis noted on the show, that doesn't make up for all the bad things Murdoch did.

No, and I know we've been on this go round before but I'm pretty fucking sick of listening to people act like the Anglo-American media's shit didn't stink before those…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:10:29 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258040#post258040 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258040#post258040 A debt owed to Murdoch ?

I suppose thats one way of putting it, when you havent quite paid it all off

Even Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has freely acknowledged the debt the rest of Fleet Street owes Murdoch for forcing technological change in the 1980s. He had to break…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 15:50:55 +1200 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258038#post258038 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258038#post258038 Fri, 11 May 2012 15:46:15 +1200 Graham Dunster https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258023#post258023 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258023#post258023 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:31:16 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258018#post258018 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258018#post258018 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:12:32 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258006#post258006 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=258006#post258006 Proofreader's report...
...speculated on which might befall Murdoch’s papers...
speculated on what might befall...
...which it presetly 43% owned by News Limited.
which is presently 43%...


Pimp my read...
Murdoch was different from the old Express and Mail owners in the global scale of his business and in that he…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 13:08:05 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=257998#post257998 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=257998#post257998 Fri, 11 May 2012 12:12:54 +1200 Steve Curtis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=257994#post257994 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=257994#post257994 A debt owed to Murdoch ?

I suppose thats one way of putting it, when you havent quite paid it all off

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 11:53:09 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=257993#post257993 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-to-prostitute-yourself-to-media/?p=257993#post257993 Discussion from blog post.

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