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Last updated on July 13th, 2017 at 01:09 pm

The Daily Telegraph reports:

News Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch has taken over The Sydney Morning Herald.

In the latest hilarious stuff-up at its so-called “newsroom of the future”, the Herald has installed massive pillars at its new Pyrmont office depicting a huge etched image of the News Corporation chief …

The broadsheet ran a cocky editorial last month where it invited Mr Murdoch to visit the Herald while he was in Sydney to see what an integrated newsroom looked like.

Now the joke is on them, with Mr Murdoch keeping a watchful eye over everyone from David Marr to Adele Horin.

A Herald artist first noticed – by late afternoon Wednesday – that Murdoch was gazing amusedly at frightened Fairfax staffers:

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The images were subsequently taken down:

Red-faced Fairfax executives ordered the immediate removal of more than 20 giant-sized images of rival media boss Rupert Murdoch adorning the company’s multi-million dollar new offices …

But in another embarrassment for the Herald, The Daily Telegraph “rescued” one and gave it a safe haven on our editorial floor, after disgruntled Fairfax staff tipped us off to a secret location.

Rescued Rupert is back where he belongs:

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UPDATE. The SMH’s Scott Rochfort:

It appears worldwide domination is not enough for the News Corporation deity Rupert Murdoch. Now he wants to influence our spiritual thoughts.

More on the Murdoch apparition here, here, here, here, here and here.

Posted by Tim B. on 12/07/2007 at 12:49 PM
    1. It must really suck to work for the SMH this morning (said while rolling on the fall laughing my ass off).

      It’s going to kill the Lefties to be forced to be fair now.

      Posted by swassociates on 2007 12 07 at 01:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. Excuse me, I meant to write floor, not fall

      Posted by swassociates on 2007 12 07 at 01:11 PM • permalink

 

    1. Love it. Rupert and Rove…Almost sounds like an innocuous little law firm…BUT!

      Muwahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa!

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 12 07 at 01:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. You newspaper people!  Such kidders!

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 12 07 at 01:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. To be a fly on the wall in the SMH bathrooms-priceless.

      Posted by yojimbo on 2007 12 07 at 01:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. Too bad someone didn’t slip a photo of Lord Karl (PBUH) in there as well.

      Or maybe that’s a good thing….if Murdoch frightened those lefties, Lord Karl (PBUH) might have instigated a collective heart attack.

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 12 07 at 03:14 PM • permalink

 

    1. Who did they use for their decorator consultants?
      Given the subtlety of the image, it’s apparent that the design and printing was done by Propaganda Artwork on Columns Org.

      Posted by Skeeter on 2007 12 07 at 04:13 PM • permalink

 

    1. Don’t get it. What’s the stuff-up about having the picture of their own boss displayed?

      Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 12 07 at 04:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. Hoo boy, some heads are gonna roll.

      I loved the last line:

      As a reciprocal gesture, The Daily Telegraph is considering installing a small etching of Warwick Fairfax in its tea-room.

      One of the reasons that most American cities only have a single newspaper is that they are Serious Journalists who would never stoop to such frivolous japery. Fortunately I live close enough to Boston and New York that I can indulge in two Murdoch properties, the NY Post and the Boston Herald. Yes, I read tabloids.

      People criticize tabloid journalism. So what? They’re all whores, and we know what “high standards” the New York Times attains. So if I can’t trust the MSM, I may as well be entertained while I’m being bullshitted. Nothing like a Friday morning with the football handicapping columns and news headlines like “BRONX PERV NABBED IN TORSO SLAY.”

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 12 07 at 04:25 PM • permalink

 

    1. I thought they were fond of large paper heads in that culture.

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 12 07 at 04:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. #8 Honkie Hammer,
      That’s not their boss.  Thats the RIVAL boss.

      Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 12 07 at 04:48 PM • permalink

 

    1. When I looked at the picture, I thought it was a map of Pangea. I guess my perspective’s out of whack.

      Posted by paco on 2007 12 07 at 05:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. Pangaea? Isn’t that right next to Pacovia?

      Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 07 at 05:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. #13 Swinish: An autonomous republic within Pacovia.

      Posted by paco on 2007 12 07 at 05:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. This is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week.

      Posted by daddy dave on 2007 12 07 at 05:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. SMH staff have a greater threat than Rupert Murdoch to make them quiver. After the takeover of Rural Press by Fairfax this year, Rural Press now runs the SMH. When Rural Press imposes its culture on the SMH, there will no puffed up superiority from the SMH latte set. They will be too busy taking classies or doing advertorials for that.

      Posted by Contrail on 2007 12 07 at 05:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. How did that even come to happen?

      Posted by Apple77 on 2007 12 07 at 06:26 PM • permalink

 

    1. Well, the takeover was successful.

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 12 07 at 06:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. I hear Murdoch supports Hillary Clinton. What’s up with that??

      Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 12 07 at 06:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. #5 Eww, maybe not, yojimbo.

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 12 07 at 06:46 PM • permalink

 

    1. H stands for Heathens.

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 12 07 at 06:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. Yeah, if anybody has lower standards than tabloid journalism, it would have to be the rural press.  Any story in “The Land’ or ‘The Queensland Country Life’ has a guaranteed theme of: “they are fucking up the country, and it would take Joh Bob Katter Barnaby Joyce the National Party to fix it”

      Marvelous synergy that.

      Posted by entropy on 2007 12 07 at 06:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. paco, did you see your shoes in a previous post?

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 12 07 at 06:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. I’m with Apple77. How does a “stuff-up” like that occur. Do Fairfax management make some habit of ordering large pillars with Rupert Murdoch on them and this time they accidentally got placed in the newsroom. Did they order the Warwick Fairfax pillar from Pillars Express and not check carefully before they put them up?

      Posted by Francis H on 2007 12 07 at 06:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. #21, H stands for Heathens.

      Used to be the family name, in fact, Heathens, but we anglicized.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 12 07 at 07:25 PM • permalink

 

    1. #23: Yes I did, 1,618! And lovely footwear it is. Although, of course, they aren’t my personal shoes; I could never manage high heels.

      Posted by paco on 2007 12 07 at 07:28 PM • permalink

 

    1. As a reciprocal gesture, The Daily Telegraph is considering installing a small etching of Warwick Fairfax in its tea-room.

      A trivet?

      Posted by kae on 2007 12 07 at 07:52 PM • permalink

 

    1. Having a sister who once worked for Rural Press, I rather like the potential possibility of Traceee spending her under-utilised time Photoshopping out bull’s pizzles to create generic cattle for the stock classifieds.

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 12 07 at 08:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. A trivet?

      More of a spittoon, actually..

      Posted by mojo on 2007 12 07 at 09:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. (((reeccaaaa 25))))))

      paco, I know they’re pretty sexy, I want your gold heel range..

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 12 07 at 10:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. I hear Murdoch supports Hillary Clinton. What’s up with that??

      He’s also a warmenista. The Left are so ignorant that they don’t realize their Devil on Earth is only 82.6% evil, by their standards.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 12 07 at 11:00 PM • permalink

 

    1. Whichever member of the VRWC pulled this off, deserves an immediate promotion.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 12 07 at 11:49 PM • permalink

 

    1. I call Godwin.

      From the ABC story:

      Measuring three metres high by one metre wide, the Nuremberg-style posters had been glued onto the pillars by the interior design team…

      Why use words like ‘large’ when a Nazi reference so readily falls to hand?

      Posted by fidens on 2007 12 08 at 12:28 AM • permalink

 

    1. #33: Great catch, fidens!

      Posted by paco on 2007 12 08 at 12:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. Whichever member of the VRWC pulled this off, deserves an immediate promotion.

      It was wronwright. I didn’t want to say anything because he’s been getting cocky lately, and frankly, I think he’s angling for my third-floor office with the view of Mount Doom.

      I’m feeling especially vulnerable because if word of my 40-mpg Scion gets out, it’s back to cubicleville for me. I’m detailing Lord Karl’s Hummer just in case.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 12 08 at 01:48 AM • permalink

 

    1. According to the ABC article:

      Fairfax spokesman Bruce Wolpe has described the corporate stuff-up as an unfortunate but amusing design error.

      Bruce Wolpe, PR flak for Fairfax is possibly the biggest apologist in the Australian media.

      He has continually maintained that there is no anti-Israel bias in The Age (known widely as al-Age) when even blind freddy could see it. When asked, point blank by a Jewish Melbournian, how he, as a Jew, could possibly believe his own bullshit, his only answer was to walk away quickly.

      His latest excuse, whilst certainly for something amusing (as opposed to structural antisemitism) comes as no surprise. He will make a wonderful NSW Public Transport minister one day…

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 12 08 at 02:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. #26 Although, of course, they aren’t my personal shoes

      Of course not. Although I’m sure that if any of the males here have a well-turned ankle it would be you – from all that gumshoe activity.

      Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 08 at 02:57 AM • permalink

 

    1. Now THAT’S what I call a “great post”.

      Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 12 08 at 09:45 AM • permalink

 

  1. Now THAT’S what I call a “great post”.

    Ba-dum-DUM!

    Tex Lovera, folks, he’ll be here all week!

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 12 08 at 10:49 AM • permalink