In which the pond learns what News Corp means when it blathers about "impairments" ...

The pond realises that it had promised to take time off to crash the NSW electricity grid, but the chance to co-join the obvious, dot the i's and cross the t's was irresistible.

That tale of the skulking mogul can be found at the Graudian here, and look at what the cat dragged in and put on display at the ABC here ...

There's more and active links at the ABC, but please allow the pond to chortle at the notion that News Corp brands don't turn up on the sleaziest sites on the web. That's just the way it goes ...

Their attempt to traduce Fairfax was pathetic, and desperate

Of course you have to visit those sites to discover them and the banks and the insurance companies and all the rest of them, but it's pretty rich for Thomson to berate others for sleaze ...

Remember the glory days of Beck on Fox News?

Integrity? Credibility?

And this was in the Terror this very day ...

And that's just one of any number of click bait stories in the Terror  peddling the fake, the faux and the fallacious ...

The page 3 mentality never really went away did it?

Priceless integrity?

What, like the chairman turning up for a meeting where his prize Conservative lap poodle fawned all over the Donald, panting, and licking, and leg humping in a way that was sickening to behold?

And while we're at it, please allow the pond to select a couple more Jaffa-rolling moments from the second bit of that ABC report ...

"Audiences crave integrity, which is why is why so many of our mastheads have reported strong growth," Mr Thomson said. However, revenues in cable networks fell by 2 per cent or $US2 million compared to the prior year because of lower affiliate advertising after losing rights to the Rugby World Cup. News Corporation also reported a changing in the carrying value of its Australian cable television operation Foxtel, where net income decreased from $US52 million to $US24 million. The media company is blaming a change in the value of Foxtel's investment in Ten Network and losses associated with its streaming service Presto, which was recently closed.

Audiences carve integrity? So you offer them the Catholic Boys' Daily, the Currish Snail, the Terror, the Bolter in the HUN and all the rest of the inner city 'leet bunker dwellers?

It's just another confirmation that News Corp's news activities are doing a Fairfax, and like Fairfax, their main hope is real estate, which is why the reptiles love to pump up the volume on house prices.

They need the bubble, they profit by the bubble, and the story was the same back in August 12016 for anyone reading Mumbrella here ... and in due course, likely enough, we'll all have to wear the pain of the bubble ...

And so it's back to breaking the NSW grid, while the plot to bury the Murdochians bubbles along nicely ... (there's more New Yorker cartoons here)...

Crush the Murdochians and hear their lamentations? Sorry, that's totally out of context ... they're doing it to themselves, all by themselves ...