Jimbo and the Shadow of Murdoch, Is there any connection? Options

[Zoloft]

I haven't seen any mention of this, so just merge to existing discussion if any.

Rupert Murdoch's Sunday paper, the News of the World, is embroiled in a vast phone-hacking scandal, and he shuts it down, while Rebekah Brooks gives out denial after denial about any knowledge of what her employees were doing...
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Rebekah Brooks worked hand-in-hand with Freud Communications, and there are quite a few stories that may have been planted by that firm...
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Freud Communications employs Kate Garvey (former Tony Blair aide), who fills the role of Director, and who probably at this moment has her hands full, what with all the unraveling threads at Freud Communications and her engagement to Jimbo Wales, a close relationship since the May previous at least.
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Is Jimbo blissfully counting baby photos and keeping the long-distance-relationship with his fiancee fresh? Or is he reviewing in his mind any correspondence and agreements with Freud Communications he may have left behind in London?

Of course, this might all be just a big ball of coincidence... (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/dry.gif)

[Somey]

This might have worked for the NotW staff as a means of extricating themselves from the trouble they caused, if they'd only thought of it. They could have released a statement like this:

Jimbo told us it was okay to delete the voice mail messages, because they were all stored in the mailbox's "revision history." He also made the point that this was the right thing to do, because having the mailbox filled up with old messages was a form of de facto censorship, which is contrary to the "anyone can edit" philosophy. Of course, we would have asked the police for permission to do it, but Jimbo said we couldn't be prosecuted since the new voice-mails (the ones we were making room for) would be considered "crowdsourced" - so we wouldn't be held personally responsible for their content. We weren't even hosting them! (Admittedly, he might have said "hoisting.") He also convinced us that we should all follow our own individual moral code(s), since to do otherwise would be "weak, in the strictly Objectivist sense." Besides, they might have said "no."

It would have been worth a shot, at least...

[Zoloft]

This might have worked for the NotW staff as a means of extricating themselves from the trouble they caused, if they'd only thought of it. They could have released a statement like this:

Jimbo told us it was okay to delete the voice mail messages, because they were all stored in the mailbox's "revision history." He also made the point that this was the right thing to do, because having the mailbox filled up with old messages was a form of de facto censorship, which is contrary to the "anyone can edit" philosophy. Of course, we would have asked the police for permission to do it, but Jimbo said we couldn't be prosecuted since the new voice-mails (the ones we were making room for) would be considered "crowdsourced" - so we wouldn't be held personally responsible for their content. We weren't even hosting them! (Admittedly, he might have said "hoisting.") He also convinced us that we should all follow our own individual moral code(s), since to do otherwise would be "weak, in the strictly Objectivist sense." Besides, they might have said "no."

It would have been worth a shot, at least...

Maybe a shot of whiskey.

I still think the mainstream media needs to poke around and see if there any connections or alliances that connect Jimmy Wales with the Murdoch kakistocracy.

[thekohser]

I still think the mainstream media needs to poke around and see if there any connections or alliances that connect Jimmy Wales with the Murdoch kakistocracy.

What do you consider the "mainstream media"?

[Zoloft]

I still think the mainstream media needs to poke around and see if there any connections or alliances that connect Jimmy Wales with the Murdoch kakistocracy.

What do you consider the "mainstream media"?

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I was hinting you might want to explore it in an Examiner article, but, hey, sending it to actual ink-stained wretches is fine too.

It's all a big game of connect-the-dots, and the dots have been getting bigger and closer to Jimbo for some time now.