Mr Murdoch and NOTW

Peter Wu

11 July 2011

 

My humble opinion is that this is very much Mr Murdoch’s creation.  Let’s face it, birds of the same feather flock together.

 

He employs like-minded people to drive his vision and his values.  Employees take the cue (more often than not directives) from management and the newspaper ultimately imploded.

 

In politics, we saw the demise of Richard Nixon and ‘all the president’s men’.  Apparently they all used highly colourful words like he did during discussions on matters to do with national security, and the Democrats!  Bush Jr. is another example of the congregation of cow-boys and gun-slingers which created a mess in the Middle East.  I don’t know whether he used colourful words routinely though.

 

Honestly, I don’t know much about Mr Murdoch at all until Wendi Deng hooked up with him.  I thought that the relationship is so bloody awkward, especially at family gatherings where his adult children are present.  Good luck to him and to his heart!