We moms try not to let the phrase "I told you so" escape from our lips too often. But Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 102, the mother of embattled media executive Rupert Murdoch, has every right. The Daily Beast reports that more than 40 years ago, when Murdoch bought the now infamous and defunct News of the World, his mother warned him not to do it. "It nearly killed me," Mrs. Murdoch reportedly told Julie Browning, the author of A Winning Streak: The Murdochs. "I think the invasion of people's privacy is the worst thing because from that comes so much more," she told the author. "I think privacy is anybody's right."
Browning writes that Rupert dismissed her concerns, telling his mother that "there are tens of thousands of people living in London and around England who have nothing in their lives practically and they want this sort of thing."
Uh huh. How's that working out for you, Rupert? This may have to be the beginning of a recurrent blog sub-theme. Boys, listen to your mother!
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