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Now that you’ve registered at the NY Times site (what, you mean you don’t just blindly follow every link I put up here because I tell you to like you have nothing better to do?), you’ll be able to read this opinion piece on the dangers of private ownership, which is particularly scathing about everybody’s favourite hugely powerful media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch.

Although I agree entirely with the article (and despise Murdoch as much as the next guy), I did just wonder if the fact the he is singled out has anything to do with the fact that he is the proprietor of their rival New York paper, the Post?

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From this week’s NME, classified section, listed under ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Trustee in Bankruptcy of Andrew Michael Rouke (formerly of “The Smiths”) wishes to sell Mr Rourke’s royalty stream. Any interested party should contact Joey Byrne, Turner Parkinson Solicitors… Manchester.

Wow. Rourke (and drummer Mike Joyce) might have won that 1998 court case when the judge memorably branded Morrissey “devious, truculent and unreliable”, but I guess it wasn’t enough to keep the wolf from the door.