Citizen Oedipus

[LALA TIMES]
[Mummy Dearest]

Rupert Murdoch.

I've finally figured him out. He has an oedipal thing with the Media.
That's why he's going around ravaging every country's media and government.
His father died and left him with his old mother, and without a media empire.

So, he has made it his job to replace his newspaper-owning father. [see stories below]

His Rosebud? His daughter. It gets even more complex for his daughter. She's the next Oedipal victim. Rupert is drawing her into his media web to complete his automaton-like plan.

Unfortunately, this is his link to WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST,

MEDIA MOGUL & PLUTOCRAT,
WHOSE CONCUBINE HAD A NICKNAME ROSEBUD DUE TO HER RATHER LARGE FLESHY HOO-HA.
THAT WAS THE BIG JOKE OF CITIZEN KANE.

Everybody in H-wood knew the true meaning,
but in the movie Rosebud was the name of Hearst's
childhood sled/toboggan. As if!

More like the 'town bicycle'- everybody's taken her for a ride

Cos67 ¬(%^D>

GUARDIAN BLOG
Posted by Michael White Thursday 3 March 2011 11.33 GMT guardian.co.uk
Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB win: the damage is to the coalition

The significance of the decision to let Murdoch have his wicked way with the fair maiden BSkyB is the way coalition pretensions have been skewered in broad daylight
Before we get too horrified over the spectacle of Rupert Murdoch getting his wicked way with the fair maiden BSkyB, it is important to get things in perspective and remember that he will be 80 next week. So he will soon be dead. The real damage is to David Cameron, Vince (remember him?) Cable and the coalition.

I have nothing personal against the old ruffian, though he has contributed greatly to the coarsening of public life both in Britain through his tabloids and in the United States, notably via Fox News. Other places too, I expect, but I am less able to judge.

But when Murdoch dies, the global media empire he has put together with such tenacity – we must all hope he feels it has been worthwhile when his "Rosebud" moment comes – will start to decay with him.

His children may all be hardworking and talented – it helps to have a few million from Dad to start with – but they are not as clever as Dad. Mathematicians call it "regression to the norm".

So the significance of this morning's confirmation that the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, (Berkeley Hunt, in Hugh Muir's joke) is to accept Murdoch's offer to hive off Sky News in the interest of media diversity is not in the details of the deal. It is the way coalition pretensions have been skewered in broad daylight.
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No surprise there then, as Pratley suggests the independent directors have a chance to prove they are not a pushover. Don't hold your breath. "Independent" and "Murdoch" are nor words that sit happily together.
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Both have written memoirs exposing the hollowness of Murdoch assurances in respect of independent directors at the Times and elsewhere in Rupert's long career. He's been stitching people up for 50 years, starting in small-time Australia, moving through the News of the World ("Mummy told me never to resign," said his first betrayed editor) and the famous Times/Sunday Times acquisition (1981) which Margaret Thatcher got through.

As he had been in London, he was initially patronised in New York and Washington, but outfoxed business and political foes there too. Even at the Wall St Journal – which Murdoch took over in 2007 over after courting the previous owners with pompous assurances – they have already proved "wholly useless", Neil said on Radio 4's Today programme.

He also likened Rupert to a killer whale, albeit a rather elderly one these days, one who has not lost his taste for blood. "When it comes to doing deals, Mr Murdoch is an Italian. The real negotiations begin after you've signed the deal."

Much talking will have to be done to hammer out the how Sky News will be managed and financed – this to sustain the notion that Britain has three TV news networks, a revived ITV (surging profits announced last night), the mighty BBC and Sky, a minnow in terms of viewers, but politically important. But it's a detail.

CNN
A new book wonders what makes Rupert...Rupert.
By Richard Siklos, editor at large
December 5, 2008: 3:39 PM ET


LOS ANGELES (Fortune) -- To use the oldest media mogul cliché in the metaphorical book, a just-released biography on Rupert Murdoch sets out to answer the question of what exactly is the media tycoon's Rosebud. That is, what has fueled Murdoch's astonishing global media conquest over the past half-century and where does his purchase last year of The Wall Street Journal fit in?

DISINFO.COM
virtual murdoch: chapter-by-chapter summary
by Neil Chenoweth (nchenoweth@mail.fairfax.com.au) - July 20, 2001

Chapter One: Voltaire's Undergraduate

Does the Rupert Murdoch story have a Rosebud? Murdoch's most important enduring relationship has been with his mother. The book starts with Dame Elisabeth talking about one single, cataclysmic event in his childhood, describing the man who cannot look back, in terms of a moment that he cannot look back to.
Murdoch's mother creates a myth of a father that Rupert can never live up to.
[pure Oedipus-bait - Cos67 ]
This is why Murdoch's Oxford years are important. For three years his life is not defined by his family or the media business. With his close friend Robin Farquharson, Murdoch helps set up a bogus philosophical society as a ploy to put a bit of zip into their CVs, then they help run the Cherwell magazine. Farquharson was a brilliant bi-polar personality who went on to become one of the pioneers of game theory. Murdoch's close friend was busy setting out the rationale for cutting corners. Farquharson was also outrageously gay . . . this in the days before Murdoch became homophobic.

Just as Murdoch ran into trouble for rigging a student election, his father died. The family was indignant as most of Sir Keith Murdoch's legacy was taken over by the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper chain that he had built up. But how did Sir Keith find the money to buy two small newspaper chains, including an Adelaide operation called News Limited? Sir Keith's critics believed he had arguably 'stolen' the newspapers. Whatever the truth of this, the family's belief that an injustice had been done cemented Rupert's control of the estate. His three sisters might own more of News Limited than he did, but the need to avenge Murdoch family honor meant that Rupert ended up in control.

THIS IS HOW HE BECAME THE EVIL AVENGER OF THE MEDIA
In the end, he became an evil caricature of the media mogul, just
like something out of Batman's Gotham (freaking joke):
In 1959 Rohan Rivett, Rupert Murdoch’s mentor(son of now deceased Sir Keith Murdoch) and the Editor in Chief of Murdoch’s newspaper at the time, spearheaded a story which embarrassed the Australian government but saved an innocent aborigine’s life. The government brought several sedition charges against Rivett and the newspaper which they were cleared of except for one which lingered for months until it was withdrawn by the government. Shortly thereafter, in spite of the fact that circulation and profits were much higher since Rivett took over the paper, Rivett was fired by Rupert Murdoch. Thereafter, according to contemporary observers, the government also began to receive more favorable press from Murdoch’s papers. The child learned his place was to be found in the dichotomous role of slave/master to government.

So, the father speaks out against a tyranny
and is protected by a powerful press baron.
The child becomes a media baron and
persecutes those who challenge tyranny.
The child would seem to have cowered into yellow journalism
where the father stood firm in objectivity.