Coercri`s Soul

With all the fuss over a bit of shaving foam in the face of Rupert Murdoch from a protester at Parliment, I saw The Sun headlines that has “James Murdoch furious over the incident” and “Moron foam pies Murdoch”, and thought back to previous pie-ings and The Sun headlines, with very different tones.

When Bill Gates was pied in the face it had a different tone altogether and instead of being outraged thought it was funny and played on the ridicule – the same tone was used when Jeremy Clarkson was attacked; humour and ridicule.

It is so very amusing to me that The Sun can be so two faced, AND THEIR READERS BUY IT, the readers need to wise up and change tabloid, The Sun and it’s controlling masters use it to brainwash and influence the British public.

With all that has gone on with the News of the World and the whole spying on politicians and celebs I wonder if people have considered the bad guy behind all this – that is Rupert Murdoch!  I had read in the papers (not News International owned ones obviously) that the powers that be (Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, News International’s chief) knew nothing about the hacking that was going on within the NOTW and so are innocent of any wrong doing – well I’m afraid the buck stops with them.

Only a month a go Sharon Shoesmith was hounded in the tabloids (including News International papers) that as she was the boss of the social worker dept in which Baby P was under, she was guilty of allowing this baby to die due to negligence. If Shoesmith is ultimately guilty for this tragedy for being in charge then so is Brooks/Murdoch.

What they have done to try and get away with all of this is throw the NOTW on to the fire as a sacrificial lamb to try and deflect the attention away from them. This is not going to hurt their pockets at all as the rumours of replacing the NOTW with a sunday edition of The Sun will I am sure be true, and so, kerching, more money in to News International’s pockets and a few less journo’s to pay as well.

What should happen first of all is the stopping of News International buying up Sky shares, this would give too much power to Murdoch over the British news institutions – I think this was a bad idea anyway and I think this just goes to show that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Also the whole system of who watches the watchers needs to be overhauled, they seem allow things to go on that should not, whenever there is a scandal of some sort all the Press Complaints Dept seems to say is, “We’ve had a word with [someone] and fined they £[some piffeling amount] and they promise not to do it again”.  The upshot of this is that the paper that got in to trouble sells more copies of their paper and so the fine is a no-brainer.

I am not a big fan of the British newspaper industry – through their own fault over the years, but they deserve a better master than Murdoch.

This government has a lot to answer for. The way to deal with our financial problems in the UK isn’t to cut, cut, cut, it is to carefully spend from borrowing more. Now I hear you say hang on, that’s not the way to balance your books – a company couldn’t do that, and you are right, a company cant – and this is the problem with our Conservative government, this country isn’t a company – it it a country and so must be treated differently.

The were some studies done, looking at the last 80 years of governments going in to recession, and everyone that came out faster were the ones that borrowed money to stimulate growth within the countries concerned, not the ones that cut back. Our previous Labour government (for all of their faults) I think realized this, and were doing so.

Remember that it was the financial markets that caused all of these problems to start with.

The Mail, The Express and The Sun were all outraged that the people had taken to the streets and went on strike (for many different reasons – reduced pay for same work, pensions etc), but I don’t see any politicians having a reduction in pay, or the financial fat cats that in affect run the UK; this must stop.

The government should be afraid of the people, not the people afraid of the government.