Comments on: Anticipatory Compliance

By: anthony innes

anthony innes — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:03:14 +0000

Rupert’s sordid career is also treated very thoroughly in Bruce Page’s
“The murdoch archipelago” . This documents the “dirty digger” and his obsessive behaviour. The war mongering should be understood more by Aussies but Page’s book was ignored by MSM herein Oz with almost total success. That his wife is a famous celeb in China should come as no surprise. The Chinese should have more luck dealing with him than the Americans. China has the larger market so he will toady with the best.

By: Brian Koontz

Brian Koontz — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:56:28 +0000

Hierarchy in general is monstrous. Rupert Murdoch is a particularly clear example of such. A few people making decisions and everyone else following them leads to a world of zombies, among other tragedies.

Yet we continue to support hierarchical institutions in almost every aspect of life - corporations, politics, war, family, religion. There is virtually zero criticism of hierarchy itself - just criticism of various subsets of hierarchy like sexism, racism, etc. Why fuck around with subsets instead of killing the whole thing?

By: Christopher Johns

Christopher Johns — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:00:37 +0000

The US version of this book, Rupert Murdoch’s China Adventures
How The World’s Most Powerful Media Mogul Lost A Fortune And Found A Wife is now in stores from Tuttle Publishing.

By: sk

sk — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:44:39 +0000

At the risk of being accused of the Reductio ad Hitlerum fallacy, I don’t think risks inherent in the “working toward the Führer” approach to management are often appreciated, much less explored with any seriousness.

Of course, poking too much into matters as seemingly banal as careerism–on which such a system of management is based–might raise questions that most folks and commentators “find too troubling to acknowledge.”