The sacrifice of Brooks
It is with regret that Rebekah Brooks has tendered her resignation as head of News International. Let me get this straight though. Last Sunday the News of the World closed down and made around 500 members of staff unemployed and yet there was no apology from Brooks. Then she resigns herself now and there is still no apology.
The ghastly thing is that Brooks and the Murdochs keep denying any wrong doing. It just feels like Brooks was in the firing line as the public face of the scandal and so she had to be seen to go. The Murdochs appear to be hiding behind this woman. When are we likely to hear that James Murdoch is to go as well? I doubt very much that we will see that happen.
If the Murdochs think that by sacrificing Brooks the baying for blood will quell they are much mistaken. It transpires that today the FBI are looking to investigate the possibility that families of victims who died 11/09/2001 were hacked by News Corporation owned papers. The sacrificing of Brooks in England is not going to work on the Americans. They will hunt down News Corporation separately and Murdoch is likely to be pulled from pillar to post across both sides of the 'pond'.
Under any other circumstances we may feel sorry for the little old man in his 80s that is being pilloried by the press. Because it is Murdoch and we now know for sure of what his companies are capable of we feel free to turn against this person regardless of age, etc.
The sad reality is that a couple of men who are just as guilty as the woman are hiding behind her resignation. Just because a limb of News Corporation/News Internation has been cut off does not mean that the infection has not already spread to the rest of the body. I fear that for Murdoch et al, the world is not going to forgive just because Brooks is gone. There is more of this to come and if anything the focus will be on the Murdoch's even more now Brooks has left.
The ghastly thing is that Brooks and the Murdochs keep denying any wrong doing. It just feels like Brooks was in the firing line as the public face of the scandal and so she had to be seen to go. The Murdochs appear to be hiding behind this woman. When are we likely to hear that James Murdoch is to go as well? I doubt very much that we will see that happen.
If the Murdochs think that by sacrificing Brooks the baying for blood will quell they are much mistaken. It transpires that today the FBI are looking to investigate the possibility that families of victims who died 11/09/2001 were hacked by News Corporation owned papers. The sacrificing of Brooks in England is not going to work on the Americans. They will hunt down News Corporation separately and Murdoch is likely to be pulled from pillar to post across both sides of the 'pond'.
Under any other circumstances we may feel sorry for the little old man in his 80s that is being pilloried by the press. Because it is Murdoch and we now know for sure of what his companies are capable of we feel free to turn against this person regardless of age, etc.
The sad reality is that a couple of men who are just as guilty as the woman are hiding behind her resignation. Just because a limb of News Corporation/News Internation has been cut off does not mean that the infection has not already spread to the rest of the body. I fear that for Murdoch et al, the world is not going to forgive just because Brooks is gone. There is more of this to come and if anything the focus will be on the Murdoch's even more now Brooks has left.
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