I have approximately four million and one things to accomplish today, so I really should not be reading more coverage of the News of the World/hacking scandal, especially since it just raises my blood pressure. Hacking into the phones of missing/murdered children?? I feel like John McEnroe: you cannot be serious?! Did I wake up on the wrong planet today? There are adults out there who consented to do that? In the interest of full disclosure, yes I did work for Fox News Channel, and so, when the Rapture happens, I'm probably SOL...*shrugs*...oh, well..
But I suspect, I strongly suspect that had my superior told me to hack into anyone's phone, especially that of a missing child(!), I'm betting that I'd say, "Does hell go with no?" And quit. And start my own business as a stripper or cat wrangler or something else useful because I have to live with myself, and I'd prefer not to spend the rest of my life feeling like I was dipped in sh*t. That's just how I roll, son.
Today, Mr. Murdoch, after previously telling his hired-lackey interviewer at the Wall Street Journal, that he was "getting tired" of the scandal and "annoyed,"  has apparently out-grown his two-sizes-too-small heart and
and now sees the errors of his ways. He has published a full page apology, and spoken to the family of Milly Dowler, the murdered British teenager, whose voicemail was allegedly hacked by staff of News of the World. The reports are that during said apology, he was apparently deeply remorseful. Interesting. Remorseful..because of what happened...or because he was caught? Mr. Murdoch did offer to meet the Dowlers at their home, and they declined; they did not want him in their home.
Here's a link to Rupert: http://youtu.be/CyVvNnlhJrY

UPDATE: great article about Twitter reacting to Murdoch's apology with Shakespearean quotes http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/16/twitter-reacts-to-murdoch_n_900650.html#s309986&title=michelle_sullivan

I'm almost hesitant to post this one, since I feel it makes me sound like every other cranky old person, but I spent some time this am reading the Wall Street Journal online, and this article... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363783070164132.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_careers#articleTabs%3Darticle

...sort of gave me a heart attack. One girl, who graduated in May, submitted "five or six"(!) job applications between January and March, and shockingly, none of that effort resulted in her getting a job, so now she's living at home and planning to travel. Oh. Another graduate profiled discusses that she's heard how hard it is to get a job...so she doesn't want to waste her (obviously, extremely valuable) time, and she's also living at home. Amazingly, the reporter didn't laugh openly at them and/or bitch slap them, saying, "You cannot be serious!"
I'm not sure what's more insane: thinking that one could send off five or six resumes in this recession, and seriously get any job...or the attitude that well, other people say its hard out there so, I better not risk it... Or, the fact that these kids' parents are letting them move back home. The article then ends with some talk about how "young people get pushed out at the bottom" of the employment ladder...right, sure. Or, they push themselves out, because isn't like sending out five resumes enough, gawd?
[This is what I meant about coming across like John McCain yelling at kids to get of his lawn, dammit!]