Whoa! Kerry Packer is dead......will it make a difference?

Check this out: All of these articles listed on page one of The Australian are about Kerry Packer. Check out the headlines! ("A Giant Oak Has Crashed"! ) Good grief! And this is just The Australian!:

29 December 2005

This is my time: Packer

*BUSINESS MOGUL ORDEREDDOCTORS TO LET HIM DIE
AUSTRALIA'S richest man, Kerry Packer, died in his Sydney mansion after instructing doctors not to intervene, leaving behind a $6.9 billion fortune and a reputation as the most formidable television proprietor of his generation.

*Editorial: Australian original

*Alan Jones: A giant oak has crashed

*Roland Perry: Mogul's toughest test

*Remembering a great Australian

*Son and heir ready to fulfil his destiny

*Big Fella's exit brings Nine sale closer

*The power behind James

*Mogul who could read nation's mind

*Visionary hit the cricketing world for six

*Haunted to the end by Goanna slur

*Tall tales and true

*New chapter for a media dynasty

*A lover of cricket first and foremost

*A fortune out of others' messes

*James embraces media's new age

*Force for pollies to reckon with

*Battle brought league to its knees

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/

The news of KP's demise had little effect on me, other than it necessitated my picking up the remote trying to find something else on tv. I had no respect or liking for the man, but I must say one item from his childhood really knocked me for six.

As a primary school child he was sent to boarding school.
The school was in sight of his home.
What a close, loving family.
What bastards his parents must have been!

Yep...and he carried on the family tradition in many ways...being a bully as well as a benefactor.

I heard the poor little smegger was five when sent away, and that his mum lampooned him as stupid and useless after polio affected his school results.

he also had dyslexia, and never read well.

Kerry Packer was never one of the people
Andrew West
January 2, 2006 11:07 PM/SMH

The late Kerry Packer may have had a very nice side. I've no idea. But let's cut through the welter of sycophancy that has engulfed Australia's media this past week and get one thing straight -- he was never one of the people.

The notion that Packer had the "common touch" appears to rely on two precepts: that, perhaps because of his childhood dyslexia, he was not a big reader and therefore had little time for pointy headed "intellectuals"; and that he ran a very successful television network based on the populist essentials of sport, lifestyle and shock-horror "current affairs" programs. .. <cont., with readers' comments following>

http://blogs.smh.com.au/thecontrarian/archives/2006/01/kerry_packer_wa_1.html

Doh!!!!

Doh?

Re?









Nah, just kiddin' ya.

I am agreeing with you.


"Kerry Packer was never one of the people"

Doh.


Like...anyone needed to be TOLD this?

But apparently they do! Like the prime minister, just about every journalist in Oz .... readers of the Age newspaper have been bombarding the editoreditor about all the sycophantic crap that's being rammed down our throats ....

Hmmmmm....I have been merrily avoiding it.

Ptoooey!

I haven't managed to, unfortunately.

And I've developed a sort of incredulous fascination about the the whole thing ... Talk about a white wash!

Australias richest man gets a free taxpayer funded funeral. WTF!!!!

Exactly, dadpad. That seemed to be JH's original plan.
However, he's already been buried, apparently. So we're going to have some sort of tax payer funded memorial ceremony.

And seeing how KP was never much of a taxpayer.... http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/oct1998/tax-o15.shtml

I'm with the 'Ding Dong, the witch is dead' crowd.

Remember him blowing $34 million in a casino?

For 34 million, I THINK I would have considered blowing Packer.....



But with a gladbag in my mouth.





God, I really am more than drawn that way aren't I?

Ewwwwwwwwww!

can you imagine the size of the newspapers over the past week or so if KP hadn't dropped off the twig. It was all there was in the Herald, and I'd guess the other newspapers were just as bad!

Sheesh!

Sell your ACP shares now! One.Tel is on Jamie's CV.

Yeah, the SMH was weird, but Fairfax has always had that moth/flame thing going with the Goanna.

Grovel, grovel, grovel ..... It's all very sick-making!

A state funeral for a billionaire (taxpayer funded). What a crock of sh!t.