Nipples and Bingo and Sex Crimes

It was way back in 1994 that Roger Taylor of the glam-rock group Queen, wrote "Dear Mr Murdoch." He has updated the song for the present day. The original lyrics speak loudly:

Dear Mr. Murdoch, what have you done
With your news of the screws and your soar-away sun?
You sharpen our hatred
You've blunted our minds
We're drowning in nipples and bingo and sex crimes
How many time must they poke and they pry
Must they twist and lie?
Just to add to the grime they even screwed up the times
Love to kick their arse goodbye oh wouldn't I!


Dear Mr. Murdoch you play hard to see
But with your bare-arsed cheek you should be on page three
And dear Mr. Murdoch you're really the pits
Bad news is good business, you're the king of the tits


They stain all they touch, they're real woman haters
But we're on their trail
They go straight for the lowest common denominators
How could they fail? go straight to jail - (no bail)!


Dear Mr. Murdoch you're a powerful man
You control half our media whose values don't scan
And dear Mr. Murdoch we're not so amused
Just line up the people whose lives they've abused


Dear Mr. Murdoch what do you know
With your minions like vultures and carrion crow
They've sunk just as low as humans can sink
For profit they tell us how mass murderers think


And dear Mr. Murdoch you come down from on high
You even bought up the air waves, you control all our sky

David Carr's column in the Times says that Murdoch "used blunt force spending to skate past judgment."

UPDATE: left-wing singer/songwriter Billy Bragg has a new anti-Murdoch song called "Never Buy The Sun," downloadable for free.