I got yer “news.”
Right here!!!
There is not going to be, was not going to be and…short of a true meltdown of some kind…never will be any kind of “government shutdown” whatsoever. And here’s why.
It’d be bad for business.
The end.
It’s just a negotiation. Always was. Between wings of the corporate world on one hand and between the pretty nearly monolithic corporate world and the American public on the other. In situations like this the media act as a testing board. Throw this idea out for the fish to gobble; run that one up a flagpole and count the erections. Both the DemRats and the Ratpublicans are totally and absolutely owned by corporate interests. “America’s business is business” said jolly ol’ Silent Cal Coolidge, and baby, like a true man of few words he pinned it in four. That’s all you need to know. And not just in the U.S., either. The whole idea holds true over the entire “developed” world.
Read on for more.
Whatisname the legal serial rapist? Dominique Strauss-Kahn? As soon as they pegged him with a three letter nickname, DSK was home free. Instead of a gun or knife his weapon of choice is power…money and position…and he wields it with great joy.
“C’mere honey. I’ve got something fer ya.” And of course it ain’t ever what she was hoping for. But at the plateau of money power upon which he lives, it’s no matter. Really busting him would be…altogether, now…
“BAD FOR BUSINESS!!!”
Yup.
The apparently earth-shattering news that Rupert Murdoch is going to close The Worst Sunday Newspaper In History?
Wow!!!
He’s actually doing something because of a moral issue?
Please.
Rupert Murdoch fights to keep BSkyB deal on course
Rupert Murdoch fought to rescue the merger of News Corporation and BSkyB by announcing the closure of the News of the World after a deluge of 11th-hour complaints to the Government appeared to delay the deal for months.
Shares in BSkyB fell 1.8pc, closing at 812p on fears that the deal would be delayed. The announcement that News Corp would shut the News of the World was made after the market closed.
In New York, News Corp shares edged up 0.5pc in afternoon trading to $17.55.More than 100,000 people and organisations made last minute submissions to the Government’s consultation on the proposed bid as the phone hacking scandal deepened, leaving the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with months of work ahead of them before Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, can reach a decision.
He was originally expected to deliver his final verdict on the proposed deal just before Parliament’s summer recess on July 18. It is now not expected to make a decision until at least September, according to sources, and it could be as late as 2012 if a way is not found to speed up the process.An earlier consultation on News Corp’s proposed bid to buy the 61pc of BSkyB it does not already own received around 40,000 of submissions, which took civil servants and lawyers a full three months to work through.
Follow the money to find the truth. Aways and everywhere.
It’s just business, podna. No hard feelings. Nuthin’ personal.
Bada BING!!!
And of course “ka-ching, ka-ching.”
Just as it’s always been.
Meanwhile you lib shmoon are glued to your media of choice.
Will he or won’t he?
Should they or shouldn’t they?
Oh wow! Whut’s gonna happen next!!!
Grow the fuck up, folks.
Power will find its best path to profit and then take it.
End of story.
The rest?
All (digital) smoke and mirrors.
Grow the fuck up.
Turn your fucking media off.
Then you’ll get the news.
Bet on it.
Until then?
You’re just a third part of a negotiation. The weakest part. The fish at the poker table.
Nothing more.
Bet on it.
Nighty-night.
Later…
AG
