Today on NPR, they did a story on the News Corp hacking scandal, and they said the televised Parliamentary Hearings about the scandal was: “The hottest ticket in town”. Yay, watching television: the hottest ticket in town! (Oh, sorry: the “telly”.) I guess that’s a slap in the face to all the London stage! How rude!
So they had all these British-sounding people on to say they had worked for one London paper or another, and how they were all shocked and dismayed, etc., since their paper had always been so above-board! (Yeah, right.) And then somebody said that Rupert Murdoch claimed he didn’t know about the scandal, since he only spoke to the Editor of the “News of the World” about once a month, and that that was funny, because Piers Morgan (!) used to be the editor of the “News of the World” (!!), and he tweeted today that he used to talk to Murdoch once a week. (That’s probably because Morgan is so high-maintenance! I'll bet he required weekly ego-strokings from the boss: "Yes, Morgan. You're the most important man in the whole world, but Daddy has to hang up now...")
Well, wouldn’t it be funny if Piers Morgan was found to be complicit in this whole hacking scandal, and that by tweeting about what he did, he just served to remind everybody about him and then got his life caved-in on himself? (The "News of the World" did have prior hacking scandals a decade ago, so is it possible that...?) I’d love to see that, because he comes across as the most pompous, smarmiest, self-satisfied, jerky douche-bag I’ve ever seen on television! Every time he comes on, I just want to punch the screen. Maybe he’s really nice, but if so, he’s very good at hiding it on TV. It’s an especially bad slap in the face to viewers after how nice Larry King always was. What an inappropriately jarring and unpleasant replacement he is for King. No wonder CNN’s ratings are in the toilet!
Oh, but back to this scandal: You know what’s a shame in all this? This big scandal would be the perfect type of story for the “News of the World” to be covering on their front page! It has everything that’s great for a tabloid-y story: corruption, law-breaking, resigning officials, shuttered businesses, etc.; and even a suspicious-looking death. (The only thing that’s missing is sex! But maybe as it goes along, we'll find out that sex was a pay-off or something for someone...) It’s too bad they’re not around anymore to rake themselves over the coals over this deplorable scandal! It’s definitely a missed opportunity! (Oh, the irony!)
