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Two Senior Murdoch Journalists Attempt Suicide
Murdochgate may just taken a detour into the tragic following reports that two senior Murdoch journalists have attempted suicide. MSNBC reports: "Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World. The suicide attempts follow weeks of intense scrutiny of the role of The Sun, another Murdoch paper, in the phone-hacking scandal and police bribery case. The man and the woman, who were reportedly involved in separate incidents, were rescued in time, a friend of one of them said, according to a report Tuesday on stuff.co.nz....The two journalists who attempted suicide have been checked into the hospital, according to a report Tuesday by the Financial Times. The newspaper reported that their care is being paid for by News International. The London Evening Standard reported that other News International journalists are “terribly stressed and many are on the edge.” The company has reportedly offered psychiatric help to any journalist who wants help." While certainly sad, it is curious why one would move to such a dramatic step instead of simply putting one's belongings in a box, and walking out of the office door for good. Especially if one is innocent of anything. Just how putrid will the Murdoch spying stench be when all is revealed, and just how high up does it go in other parallel media organizations who most certainly acted in comparable ways in the pursuit for that most elusive commodity - information? And will this be the end of any near-tragic stories associated with the billionaire media mogul? Somehow we doubt it.
More from MSNBC:
"It was not a suicide pact," the friend told the New Zealand-based news organization. "The attempts were not simultaneous and there is no suggestion of a pact."
Eleven current and former staff of the Sun, Britain's best-selling daily tabloid, have been arrested this year on suspicion of bribing police or civil servants for tip-offs, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Their arrests have come as a result of information provided to the police by the Management and Standards Committee, or MSC, a body set up by parent company News Corp to facilitate police investigations and liaise with the courts.
The work of the MSC, which was set up to be independent of the conglomerate's British newspaper arm News International, has caused bitterness among staff, many of whom feel betrayed by an employer they have loyally served.
"People think that they've been thrown under a bus," one News International employee told Reuters. "They're beyond angry - there's an utter sense of betrayal, not just with the organization but with a general lynch-mob hysteria."
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they tried to delete their facebook accounts
and Jamie Dimon says they are overpaid ... look at what the poor "journalists" have to put up with ....
Tyler is a real journalist to me ... traditional MSM is just hired guns as simple as that ...
tyler is top shelf as a jounalist, writer, and analyst [some people assume multiple tylers, but if tyler sez there is one tyler, there is one tyler, in my book]
as a daily publisher, tyler is the best in the world
and this zH of his is why, too, BiCheZ!
[i kn0w i'm not tellin ya anything new, but i just felt like pr0claiming it!]
amen to that!
Lying for a living will do that to you.
Their crime in attempted suicide: "Attempted collateral damage". Humans are nothing more than collateral, because they are what backs the bonds (BOND = SLAVERY), hence, they are guilty of attempted collateral damage. Don't you know you are a corporate fiction? JOHN JOE. JANE DOE.
You also need to APPLY for a death certificate after death. Do we take the forms to St. Peter at the pearly gates for him to fill out?
Or maybe it's all just an illusion.
Methink these 2 were 'fake' suicides, simply to draw the attention to the 'fact' that all these investigations are taking a toll NOT on the people at the top (as they should) but to the lower ranking journalists & below, in a way to draw sympathy for the common man (the majority of people employed by News International AREN'T scumbags), in the hope that this will deflect some attention away from the Murdoch empire for long enough to let things settle down a bit, then get forgotten...
Big gestures are what this is all about these days to convince the majority of people that one is genuinely sorry about the phone hacking and all the other misdemeanors: remember, not long ago, the abrupt closing down of Murdoch's flagship newspaper the 'News Of The World' yet only a few months later, it's back under a different name, 'The Sun On Sunday', most probably (re)employing many former employees...
Or perhaps these were the assisted variety of "suicides". Like when someone stabs themselves in the back 40 times and then runs themselves over with a truck.
They have journalists?
The crucial question here is, did Murdoch have insurance policies on those suicidal journalists?
Suicide or homicide attempt?
Bingo.
Yes. As a world-class cynic, I have to think there is much more here than meets the eye.
Yes. I bet these were 'assisted' suicides.
Too bad they failed. If more of the lamestream media followed their example successfully, we would be so much freer.
Well it's New Zealand after all. Since that massacre in Wellington they were forced to commit "Suicide by Chocolate"
The hospital released them with only minor gas pains.
weight a minute
Good thing they survived.. A near death experience tends to straighten one out morally. They may start calling some bitches out..
"Too bad they failed."
Um, no. Good thiing they failed. 3 very large questions come to mind:
1) Suicide or Murder (although the CIA usually isnt this sloppy)
2) What do you know you dont want people to know. Time for a waterboard me thinks.
3) Where's Waldo?
Q: What do you call 2 dead Big Media assholes?
A: A good start!
Thank you. I'm here till Thursday. Try the mahi-mahi: it *glows* in the dark!
Once again having a face book account in you name is like being blond and dating OJ and not understanding why he treats you bad.
Or being black in New Orleans arguing with a cop and can't understand who took your wallet and put hand cuff on you when you wake up in the hospital and are read you rights...
Peace
PL
Something very very wicked is happening with Murdoch. I think they are either cleaning up for him, or they are going after Murdoch to take him down and blackmail him.
Yep, tell me when two members of te Obama administration tried to commit.....
Out fucking standing. Tell me they succeeded. That's the thing about the whole elite system. It has gone on so long that most of the junior members are shells of persons with no center or hard life experience. They would fold under coercive tactics. They are very weak.
I hear Foxconn has some counselors available now.
Of course employees may be forced to sign a paper bequeathing all their assets to the company if they ever try that again.
I mean, it's just horrible PR for the company.
You mean like Walmart putting out large insurance policies on their employees? Wouldn't surprise me.
Gotta ask if those were really 'suicide' attempts. Of course, now that those people were rescued (hospitalized), I'm sure they'll be medicated thru the roof and not be able to spill the beans on anything.
Note to the rest of those journalists out there: be sure to mention to friends (and leave some documentation in various locations) data that should be known, and that if you're found as a suicide, IT'S NOT TRUE!!
Actually I meant Apple making i-shit in China...but whatever, to each his own.
At least Walmart hasn't built employee housing on prem...yet ;-)
If you get suicided you end up dead, except maybe for
that classic small plane crash you survive against the
odds.If you do it yourself it depends on whether you
really mean it or just pity yourself.
Rupert offering suicide bounties again?
Did they both shoot themselves in the head multiple times?
Samurai?
Or is this more like the old honored Roman tradition?
Either way, the skunkworks will be exposed if they fail to comply with the new globalist demands for one voice, one media, and one source for all information.
NEWSPEAK BABY!
Hardly seems worth suicide. It's not like they stole trillions, kept billions, and ensalved millions in debt or something like that.
Maybe they hadn't been making the proper sacrifices to Baal.
Well, they failed thier overlords so someone had to die.
That is taking the ol' job a bit too seriously, IMO
Building sympathy.... classic PR stunt
No shit, what am I supposed to feel sorry for these bitches now?
Exactly. Had they been successful, I'd think about it. As it is, killing ones self is EASY and if you can't even do that then you are pretty much worthless. As all News Corp "journalists" are.
Suicide my fucking ass.
Stupid hit men must really suck.
I'm sure there will be more carnage once people start singing.
But really, this is all a big distraction and means jack fucking shit.
This just heard at the CIA Headquarters: "Who sent in the new fucking guy? Someone call Gomer and get him in here now!"
Jesus. If your going to kill yourself, do it for a good reason. A woman maybe? Not for some wrinkly old hobbit named Murdoch.
Better yet, if you're going to make the Grim Reaper plunge, why not strap on 110 lbs of explosives, give Mr. Murdock a handshake and take out a floor at News Corp headquarters?
See... now THAT's something that can sell newspapers. </sarc>
Rumor has it they both heard their new chief editor was a feller named Jon Corzine.
Unless they drove a wood stake through their own hearts it's bullshit, fucking j school vampires the lot of them.
Jump, you fuckers!
Two almost down, 5 billion to go.
0/2, not very impressive.
If I was a MSM sockpuppet, I wouldn't be able to live with myself either. Assuming that these were real suicide attempts and not one of those cries for help things.
If you were an MSM sockpuppet, you probably wouldn't be informed enough to realize anything's wrong.
lol...and now for the weather...Flip, how's it look out there?
Always one of my favorite lines, as if everyone lives in a cave.
Must have been a bummer realizing they would have to work for a living rather than listen to answering machines.
Try harder .
Putrid spying stench is right! I have a little sympathy for the journalists, but if they expected a worm like Murdoch to protect them, they're pretty foolish. At least they have a conscience and realize they've done something wrong, which is more than can be said about their festering pus sack of a boss.
they cant even do that right
when the murdoch crime stories broke, the police were involved, even the Yard, perhaps
pols, possibly even at the ministerial level; this type of "dirt" gathered in nefarious ways, has many uses and "prices"
and of course celebrities
then, amyWinehouse passed away
or, she woulda owned the entire mordoch empire, if she'd let slewie run her case
but dead stars don't sue live scumbags
how wild would it be to assume that people and info-intelAgents are all over the place, and many of them are still employees
we don't know how many police interviews have been done
so, in an inverstigation like this, if you know something, do you spill your guts?
if they've already given you the bright lights and 3rd degree and you've signed a damned statement at to poleeece station, where ya gonna go? you're not even a suspect, either!
what if you heard something? pillow talk if you dated someone from within the company
what would an executive admin assistant know? how would you handle this info if you were such a high-placed "secretary"? here many of the "involvees" know each other socially; these are newspapers!
i've refused to do what a superior demanded many many times
the last time was with a close personal friend, who asked me to something unsafe on a house we were working on; we got thru it ok; but the job took an extra day, and the whole company {lol all 4-5} had been pushing to get it done!
another time, 1st day on a job as a property manager for ~250 widespread houses and 4-plexes, the broker told me to drive to SF b/c he must have some papers from there by tomorrow morning or some big fuking escrow won't close. i told him it wasn't my job and go bother somebody else. he was a "boss" personality type and went apprpriately ape-shit
this was a good sized office and there were 4 secretaries and staff there who had never heard anyone say 'no' to this guy before. years! and they all started laughing and couldn't stop! heluva first day, slewie!
the time to have packed up and boogied woulda been the very first day you knew the score, BiCheZ! or the first time you were asked to pull a little "shit"; this guy bailed out a few daze ago>>>
James Murdoch resigns as News Intl executive chair ...By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | AP. Published: Feb 29, 2012 19:04 Updated: Mar 2, 2012 21:26 LONDON: James Murdoch, the executive at the ...[arabnews.com/world/article581393.ece -]<<<this is the kinda criminal investigation which the US shoulda had; here, the statutes of limitations are running, but nobody ever pays it no never-mind
well, the criminals do
trust me
Good post. These things are complex and each player has varying tolerances for pressure and bullshit. Each has varying interests and aliances. Two words here: Mission creep. If you are in it for years, you can not notice that the temperature has gone up, you just know you don't feel good anymore but never think to directly attribute it to the job. You feel loyal, or think your boss only has so long any way, so you stay with it, as the indignities become normalized and you are innured to total weirdness. You change a little at a time to accomodate the little shifts, and then you are in it, of it, fed by it, trapped, and know nothing else to do but what you are doing, it pays the mortgage, so WTF.
hopefully it reaches the top
+1
It's hard to imagine what would cause someone to prefer suicide instead of facing whatever evil the Zionist pig Murdoch may have planned for them.
Take Murdoch's media out and more bankster control. I think he is the first of many of the elite to fall. They all have dirt on them Banksters have control of intelligence agencies that might have aided.
Control over a companies financial records, ownership of their stock and knowledge of their illegal activities will be used against those companies by the NWO - one after another after another as this plays out.
The elites better start to get together and begin to make a stand against this system. No one is safe.
Of course all these NewsPunks do it (break the law) on the phony right and left. What institution doesn't now a days while the Department of Justice is taking a permanent catnap? I would say the purge has begun in earnest. Hale Boggs...A Senator Wellstone here, a Hunter S. Thompson there was all just fun and games to these gangsters. Nothing we may be starting to see has happened in our lifetimes unless you're over 80 and came from Soviet Russia or NAZI Germany. Murdoch and his crew are fleeing Jolly Old England.Guys are getting whacked right and left NDAA style. Last week it was Breitbart, this week it looks like even the Obama impersonator might have been taken out! http://zen-haven.dk/obama-impersonator-steve-bridges-dead-at-48/
But you don`t have to be over 80 to understand that
the old man who became an american citizen is from another time. Just go back to the 80`s when his place of origin
was run by fellow robber barons.
This is the MSM eliminating the competition ! Mark Haines, FOX news, Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh, Steve Bridges ! Supress the PMs...suppress the alternative media...suppress the internet ! Freedom of expression will not be tolerated.....if it dares to become effective ! Monedas 2012 Leftists are control freaks ! Where's wiki-leaks (?).....they're part of the Socialist PTB when it comes to real alternative reporting !
I didn't down arrow you, but I think the whole right/left binary is unproductive and plays into the hands of the PTB.
The MSM did a terrific job of making the journalists and Murdoch out to be the bad guys... I'm more curious about what they discovered hacking those phones... journalists have a rough time these days. Rush Limbaugh is getting scewered, Andrew Breitbart got whacked... whatever these people are finding on TPTB is just too much to let them live with
"Leave Rush Alone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq62k5SoeEI
As Rush often points out....the British press could publish things we would never see in the US MSM ! I'll bet Barney Frank had to step down not because of redistricting....but some kind of crude internal discipline for whacking Mark Haines ! Monedas 2012 The MSM....Zero Curiosity (C) !
I'm sorry, you lost me with "As Rush often points out."
Speaking of suicide, losing a job these days can push one over the fucking edge:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/06/authorities-2-dead-at-jacksonville-high-school/
i dont blame anybody
SNUFF URSELVES OUT ********NOW********* SCUMBAGS OF THE EARTH!
It's all about silencing conservative thought. "Nuff said".....
You mean they couldn't stand to write that shit anymore and tried to end it all as an escape?
Breitbarted
what if murdoch secretly owns zerohedge with goldman sachs and this website is just a ploy to suck people into goldmans book!!!!
NOOO!OOOOO!!!!
The devil you know vs. the devil you don't.
It's hard to have any sympathy for anyone who attempts suicide.
If they COMMIT suicide, it's clear that something drive them far enough that they geniunely wanted to end their lives, and shit got real, and that's sad and all.
But a suicide attempt is almost always just a means of trying to get sympathy. Or it's a sign of incompetence. Or both.
And we all know where you can find sympathy, bitchez; in the dictionary, somewhere between "shit" and "syphilis". OH YES HE DID!
GeoffreyT you are talking shit !
Suicide attempts should always be taken seriously !
At the very least they are a cry for help. and unless we have all degenerated into a pack of completely ruthless Garbage,
we should take care if someone talks of suicide, because it could be your brother or sister, your wife or your lover,
or it could be you as soon as tomorrow ,
sitting there with a bottle of JD and a loaded Gun against your head...
wr;)
This is actually really sick and really sad. Interesting to me though that these people apparently had a conscience and recognized that what they did was immoral. Having apparently come to that conclusion, they decided to remove themselves.
Tragic and saddening. Also (maybe) beautiful in a 'long enough timeline' sense because maybe, just, maybe..Honor still lives. I have always held my fire as far as Murdock, the W.S.J. & FOX news is concerned. I don't feel comfortable with that anymore. As far as 'public' propaganda goes, W.S.J. & FOX are the best of the worst. I do not, and have not, watched FOX for years ( once you get a sense of what 'news' really is, T.V. becomes extremely offensive and toxic), I do however read the W.S.J. daily. I personally consider the W.S.J.to be the only 'not a cartoon' paper left.
Yes, they are weak and full of holes if you belong to the 1% of Americans who no longer watch the shadows dancing on the cave wall. That being said though; The W.S.J. is the only daily 'newspaper' that I can read without feeling like a North Korean.
The W.S.J is obviously not ZEROHEDGE, but it is 'an introduction to truth', VS progressivite 'suicide' by stupidity, Jim Jones, drink the koolaid, EVIL promoted by the propagandist, pro state, pro regime, 1984, animal farm, brave new world crap shat out by the 100% sold out machine.
That's it for my rant, and I'm sticking to it.
The Journal's news dept has always been excellent, but their editorial page is fuckin' batshit. They're as bad as the doctrinaires at the NYT.
The illuminous are making their move on political enemies.
cry me a fucking river, i don't believe this shit for a minute, doubt it has anything to do with the company and more to do with their drug habit and miserable personal lives
Are you serious?
I need a face palm shaking head emoticon right now.
Are you next going to be saying that we are either with you, or against you?
I killed myself the other day
I thought I did not want to stay
Clarity came as
as I ebbed away
I wanted to live, come what may
The problem is and has always been "Rupert Murdoch"
this old bastard has no scruples, morals or integrity and he should have been retired long ago !
Rupert is a ruthless hack - bastard and has the monopoly on global mis-information,
especially in his sensational garbage "rags" that pass for "Newspapers."
the sooner Rupert is off the scene, the better for the world !
wr;)
Looks like the illuminati stroke pill is still working. They must have checked into a hospital to get their stomachs pumped out.
On the journalists clinging to their job.
First, not sure they will want to restart from zero their career.
And second, self indiction is something big in US citizenism.
One has to keep in mind that US citizen can be sentenced if they self indict, even if it is known through material evidences they are not guilty.
Walking away even when being innocent looks terribly like a confession. Better not take that route in US citizen societies and the US citizen justice system.
Any word on how Morlock... oops! Murdouche....oops! Turdoch... oops! MURDOCH... is doin' himself?
Time may be approaching for Murdoch to take swimming lessons with his employer, the Mossad; just like Robert Maxwell did.
The only thing worse than attempting to commit suicide ... is fucking that up as well.
Now what?
I guess they could try to being decent honest truthful people.
Is that really so unappealing?
The alternative: Try harder!
Pick one.
Journalists?
Propagandists. EPIC FAIL. They are worthless, they cannot even kill themselves.