Let's move Rupert out of the bottom 50% of corporate idiots, OK?

I think this Murdoch thing is similar to the situation that allows Abu Ghraib. In both, a morally debased person at the top established an environment where felonies were supported--and it's only a legal defense to claim that Rupert didn't send out a memo saying "hey, let's wiretap the Queen!"  


So, no surprise, that maybe moves him a few notches up there with the other slobs, though at least there’s the benefit that the criminal damage was to a relative intangible asset like "privacy."  (Only a few small notches, I should clarify--any one who's read a Murdoch paper or watched his media already knows that privacy wasn't a big concern, so whether breaking the telecommunications laws is any different from busting in to homes and hotel rooms is a nuance on an already bad story.)  


So I guess that puts Rupert Murdoch a tad above, say, the leaders at ConAgra who are culpable as major agents in diabetes and health cost increases.   Or Monsanto.   Or military contractors.   Like, on a scale of 1 (angel) to 100 (criminal) of corporate villians, I’d say Murdoch comes in at a mediocre and largely ignorable 55?



Congratulations...you're in the top half of your class, Rupert.   Just barely, but you're there!