Is this the beginning of the end of Rupert Murdoch's media empire?

There's nothing wrong with my comprehension skills, the problem lies in your ability to express yourself.

I sound like a Tory (u)ntil we start talking about what I hope and expect people will do with their freedom once we win it back from government oppression, then I no longer do

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I sound like a Tory (u)ntil we start talking about what I hope and expect people will do with their freedom once we win it back from government oppression, then I no longer do

Better?

Better still,
I sound like a Tory, (u)ntil we start talking about what I hope, and expect, people will do with their freedom. Once we win it back from government oppression, then I no longer (will.)

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Better still,
I sound like a Tory, (u)ntil we start talking about what I hope, and expect, people will do with their freedom. Once we win it back from government oppression, then I no longer (will.)

I graduated HS 1980, just as the grammar rule task masters were getting routed by the freestylers, plus I am a radical and a libertarian.....I am thus not impressed with your peevish demand that speakers conform to your rigid grammar preference.

You're not breaking the rules, you don't understand the rules. There is a difference

The only real rule is that you should make sense. I'm not a grammar nazi, but I do feel that words should make sense. People don't tend to be taken seriously if they don't make sense.

The country's top police officer resigned Sunday and Rupert Murdoch's former aide Rebekah Brooks was arrested as the phone hacking scandal finally tore into the heart of the establishment.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson said he was quitting due to speculation about his links to Murdoch's empire and the force's botched investigation into hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
His shock announcement came just hours after police arrested Brooks -- who resigned on Friday as head of News International, Murdoch's newspaper arm -- on suspicion of phone-hacking and bribing police.
"I have taken this decision as a consequence of the ongoing speculation and accusations relating to the Met's links with News International at a senior level," Stephenson said in a hastily arranged televised statement.

izzythepush wrote:

The only real rule is that you should make sense. I'm not a grammar nazi, but I do feel that words should make sense. People don't tend to be taken seriously if they don't make sense.

My experience has been that people dont like what I have to say on the basis of not liking the message, I rarely hear that the message is incomprehensible. I am thus much more inclined to believe that you are being a prick than I am that you did not get it.

You obviously want some form of social upheaval,

I fail to see how tackling Murdoch diminishes Britain's credibility

But this scandal is about more than press behaviour. On trial in at least one of the inquiries that Cameron called on Friday will be decades of collusion between politicians and newspaper proprietors, most especially Murdoch -- collusion that could also implicate the British police.

Ivor Gaber, professor of political journalism at City University, said it would be naïve to think the scandal's fallout will herald a definitive end to all that. The relationship between politicians and the media is too symbiotic.

"I think as big a story that will emerge is corruption," he said

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I fail to see how tackling Murdoch diminishes Britain's credibility

A long running pattern of collusion between Murdoch and the state leaders as well as police has already come to light, and you dont see how the states reputation does not suffer here?? Really?

Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson: resignation statement

The full statement given by Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson upon his resignation on Sunday night


"I have this afternoon informed the palace, the home secretary and the mayor of my intention to resign as commissioner of the Metropolitan police service.

"I have taken this decision as a consequence of the ongoing speculation and accusations relating to the Met's links with News International at a senior level and in particular in relation to Mr Neil Wallis who as you know was arrested in connection with Operation Weeting last week ....<cont>

Try to look at my sentence. I used the word 'tackling.' Murdoch and mass media's relationship to the state is not a phenomenon confined to Britain. We're doing something about it.