Not Waiting For The Asteroid

First things first:
I refuse to believe Rosie's lips have not been augmented. They look like they must sting.

For it to be a precedent, we'd have to believe that the owner of the Times would shut it down.

Yeah, I don't believe that one either.

My fantasy hope.

The CBC would follow suit here in Canada.

I see a huge difference between a newspaper illegally spying on the private conversations between private individuals, and a newspaper reporting massive lying from the (impersonal) government to its supposed masters (the voting public). I think the former despicable, and the latter laudable. YMMV, especially if you've forgotten about Adscam.

Ironic musical aside: listen carefully to everything Chrissy Hynde has to say in The Pretenders irridescent "Back on the Chain Gang".

Back on the Chain Gang

First, let's put "Rosie" in perspective.

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It's an allergy.

More importantly, self flagellation should never occur when standing close to your friends, colleagues, employees, and other innocent bystanders.
Take the hits, sell the paper, reform it if you have the stones.

The rich man's remorseful tantrum is an easy out.

Don't be too hard on the CBC and their buddies, after all the Liberals taught them well - they only report what is contained in the press releases.

The NYT didn't hack anybody's account.

No, they have others do the dirty work for them.

Unless they're paying them it's really not the same.

Some times Kate is outright devious (O:}

They're in the business of selling newspapers. So, they profit very nicely from stolen documents. Getting them for free just means higher profit margins.

Murdochs's bleating about ethics is laughable ... there neve were any ethics invloved unless you consider the effort to conceal a ruthless compulsion to get ahead and ethic.

Since when has a scandal .... any scandal .... ever been a reason for these bastards to close shop?

This is self serving Bullsh!t of the first order.
As is the finger pointing ... tongue wagging scold of those Gaurdian and NY slime types... they are categorically a bunch of Corksoakers.

First exposure to NotW was long ago via a British landlady in foreign climes where anything printed in English was a rarity.
Many of the dozens of long saved copies prominently featured a "Lord & Lady Docker" with all the sniggering enthusiasm
one would expect from British Public School Boys who had stumbled upon a secret spot that the vicar's wife had found ideal
to keep up her full body tan. The Lord was apparently someone who was not averse to fronting assorted well paid nefarious
schemes starting in the 1930s such as those that were in pursuit of secret worldwide monopolies of various types and his much
younger trophy wife was in charge of disposing of said lucre as conspicuously as possible to cheer up their set in particular and
the population of dreary gray postwar Britain in general.
The rag seemed less than riveting given its reputation as a prime example of the mass circulation English gutter press.