Paul , mate, here is a truth, we will squabble over boat people, get in to it over religion.
Take sides over multi culturism.
Get 50 posts in threads about welfare.
But here in OLO we ignore a positive truth.
Murdock is but one, many rich and powerful manipulators exist.
Spend cash to get their way, and to try to buy Governments and even to install them.
We do not talk of such.
See even if it is a blight on us all, rich poor , it is seen quite wrongly as leftist propaganda to question our *betters*
Remember all,the conspiracy's about one world government, those so called secrete society's?
They will have their work cut out.
The establishment, such as this bloke is not interested in selling us!

http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-senate-raises-heat-on-murdoch-20120503-1y1nf.html
At last! the beginning of the end of the bloke.
America is warts and all, very careful about what the media is let get away with, and Murdock will not survive their interest.
We will see an its time I put my feet up retreat.
The only thing in doubt?
Who will become our new master.

Belly, I had the privilege of knowing an old bloke (now dead) who was a Warfie in Sydney, and a Commo. Spent many an hour having a beer at Bob's house and listing to his stories about his days on the waterfront and the union back in the 1930's, a very colourful character was old Bob.
One of his stories, amongst many, was about the day a bunch of them marched up George St and occupied Sir Frank Packers office at The Daily Telegraph, reckened Sir Frank s%#t himself and was nothing but a little weed, coppers could do nothing to get them out of Packers office, until Packer agreed to print a retraction about the warfies, in his newspaper. It may not have been quite like Bob said, he did like to exaggerate at times, but it did make his stories more interesting. I think there was some truth in that one. Bob believed very much in direct action. He told me "If you don't like a polly, hit him square between the eyes with a rotten tomato when he's on his soap box trying to win your vote." I can just picture Tony Abbott on his soap box and Belly standing there with a big fat 'Grosse Lisse' in hand taking careful aim. Those were the days.

Yes Paul, it is a wonder how these two mushrooms managed to run a media empire.

It was almost spewful watching Murdoch make comments like 'the most humble day of my life'. Really! Not much humility in being a mushroom.

At least Tom Watson got his day in court (so to speak).

Paul I like gross lisse but grow a bigger one.
No way I would wast one on old Frank, had the need arised it would have been a straight left.