Murdoch is no King Lear

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I do wish however that pundits would quit comparing the Murdoch phone-hacking clusterphuck to 'a Shakespearean tragedy.' Despite the wealth, power, and magnitude of his media empire, Murdoch has no Lear depths and mind-tattered poetry; he's a colorless king, mean and un-self-reflecting, his own chasms hidden from him. The ill he has done on several continents, the death toll from the wars his journalistic outlets have reflexively, ritualistically championed, the degradation of politics into hand-puppet psychodrama (Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, et al), cannot be undone by apologies proffered under duress." — James Wolcott, on his Vanity Fair blog.