Rupert & James Murdoch Testimony To Parliament

Oh, its the same! Its the same in any country. The business controls everything. Businessmen and politicians together create a drama of seriousness and enact to their fullest abilities when exposed to make fools out of the electorate.

Just think of what happened in UK. Scene 1, the staff of News of The World weekly hack into the voice mail box of a murder victim when the police was still searching for the deceased. The paper creates a sensation out of this and ultimately when caught, vehemently denies any wrong doing. Meanwhile it turns out that the paper had a history of doing such things and hushing it up by settling things out of court and bribing its staff to keep things under wraps.

Scene 2, the police inquiry ultimately proves beyond doubt that this organization is guilty of all charges and needs to be hanged in shame. The editor then defends the actions until there is a huge public uproar about the reckless attitude of this media empire. When things get tough, the boss descends and shuts down the business lest it effects his other businesses.

Scene 3, the parliamentary committee questions the CEO as to why he allowed this to happen, to which he replies that he still doesn't know this has happened because this business is so small in his empire that he doesn't get time to monitor it and thus should be absolved of any wrong doing. The parliamentary committee acts serious and admonishes the father son duo publicly and they all retire home for a bottle of champagne and wine to celebrate their victory over rule of law.

This is what happens everywhere. Hail democracy!

Comments

Balaram said…
It's called crony capitalism in democracy.
very complicated to understand the nexus between businessmen and politicians for common man.

use taxpayers money ( denying national resources to poor people ) to bailout fat wealthiest companies, in the name of free markets.

So what's the solution?