{"id":4886,"date":"2011-07-13T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T17:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2015-12-18T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:00:29","slug":"what-if-rupert-murdoch-had-never-been-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4886","title":{"rendered":"What If Rupert Murdoch Had Never Been Born?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the classic film <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life,&#8221;<\/em> British comics Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie take a look at the world if Rupert Murdoch had never been born:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/57263481\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/action\/newscorphearings\/\" target=\"_blank\">call on Congress to investigate<\/a> News Corp\u2019s hacking practices and whether they are doing it in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/murdoch-petition\" target=\"_blank\">call on the Justice Department to investigate<\/a> whether Rupert Murdoch is violating the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the classic film &#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life,&#8221; British comics Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie take a look at the world if Rupert Murdoch had never been born: Click here to call on Congress to investigate News Corp\u2019s hacking practices and whether they are doing it in the U.S. Click here to call on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[98,30],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-humor","tag-christmas","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/wonderful-fox-free-life.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1gO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10055,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10055","url_meta":{"origin":4886,"position":0},"title":"Rupert Murdoch Was Secretly Recorded Admitting Violations Of American Law","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/3\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A recording of a board meeting of Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper in Britain has surfaced and it contains some rather damning evidence of Murdoch's knowledge of illegal activity, including possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in the United States. 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