Murdoch Meltdown: News Corp Imploding; Raising Questions about Corporate Personhood

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Murdoch-Meltdown-News-Cor-by-Rob-Kall-110716-316.html

The recent developments unfolding at News Corp challenge the idea of corporate personhood and whether justice can really be served when corporations are given the privileges of personhood. There are also the aspects of accountability that come with being considered a person.

The events at News Corp Are raising some very thorny questions. Two of the top people at News Corp have resigned. The NY Times reports,

Les Hinton, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal since 2007, who oversaw Mr. Murdoch's British newspaper subsidiary when voice mail hacking by journalists was rampant, and Rebekah Brooks, who has run the British papers since 2009 and become the target of unrelenting public outrage, both resigned in the latest blow to the News Corporation and its besieged chairman.


Many former staffers of News Corp have been arrested in England. The FBI has begun an investigation into whether News Corp staffers hacked or tapped the phones of 911 victims.

More at the link --

[Canuckistanian]

1. You want to know the morality of corporate personhood?

Just look closely at the people who RUN those corporations. Psychopaths, all of them.

[checks-n-balances]

3. Murdoch now being a well-known & highly visible example

of such a psychopath. The documentary, "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" correlated the traits of psychopathic individuals with the characteristics of a Corporation.

I guess it takes one to run one.

[checks-n-balances]

5. Great quote I just found

"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation." Clarence Darrow

(I'm going to make it my sigline)

[global1]

2. This Scandal Can Be A Major Opportunity To Turn Around The SCOTUS Decision On.......

Citizens United. How can we keep the pressure on to do that? We have an in now - will we use it or waste it?

[deacon]

4. NOTHING changes in this country until Citizens United is reversed. +1

[JDPriestly]

6. K&R

[cyberpj]

7. Yes. Overturn Citizens United. Then reinstall proper regulators & monopoly laws! nt