A Crack in the Empire?

Leave it to the Britts to make a scandal out of a scandal sheet. Rupert Murdoch's media empire, built on porn and the juicy tidbits about the lives of the high and mighty that we regular human beings love to discover about our superiors, has been scrambling to hold down the fort as his kingdom has come under attack.

His media chiefs have been caught bribing cops and politicians, tapping into the phones of a former prime minister and the royal family, and even snooping on a dead child. And now they're resigning and being arrested.

King Rupert issued a statement recently, apologizing for the bad behavior, in, of course, one of his newspapers: "[W]e are determined to live up to the expectations of our readers, colleagues and partners."

Well, Rupert, old boy, you were already doing that.

(See The Washington Post story.)