HEARD AND DEPP AND THE REAL BROKEN CHARACTER HERE - THE SUN

Ive been reading about Thinking for the past year.   I've read so many books on how to think, why to think, when to think, why we don't think, long term, short term, big and small thinking, my brain hurts. But much of what I've read has sunk in and I've observed people from a distance, not judged, just observed.

Amongst the really important seminal stuff like the meaning of life, the fact many of us will die over the next 12 months plus, and at the moment 45,000 of us in the UK already have (my computer has an unnerving habit of adding 0000s everywhere and its particularly concerning when I'm talking virus deaths as if it knows something I don't...). , comes stuff that is of no importance and relevance to anyone other than tabloid editors.

Harry and Megan.  Irrelevant but I liked Harry and I liked his mother, and I felt she should have married someone who loved her. I think Charles probably thought that too.   I don't know either of them, don't believe what the media says, and even if I did, still wouldn't care.  Have never watched Suits, but the Argentinian girl I teach yoga to, looks like her.

The Depp/Heard/Sun case is another don't care.  The media has made much of it being Depp vs Heard. Its not. Its Depp vs the Sun - or rather one editor who used to giggle with Lorraine on weekday mornings about gossip in a cheeky chappy sort of way, but happened to call Depp a wife beater or batterer or something to that effect.   Can't remember his name, as would have put it in.

Depp and Heard both come across as very broken dysfunctional characters, but Depp arguably has a lot more talent, and possibly better PR - although Heard has Elon Musk, a living embodiment of how money cannot buy you looks, taste, integrity or hair - which isn't good PR but I suppose there's the money.  And we are dealing with two actors here, who perhaps haven't been or known themselves for a very long time.

I've also been watching the series about the Murdoch Empire and was particularly struck by the interviews of Moseley who feels his son died as a direct result of something Murdoch printed.  I felt for him, his anger and inconsolable grief palpable and substantial, resonating way above everything else in what was sometimes an insubstantial documentary.  Murdoch must have had his lawyers reading and re reading every single line and semi-quaver of back music to edit it into oblivion.   Murdoch lives literally up the road from me, so it's close to home.

The Sun as a construct is a paper which manipulates and is malevolent in its gestures - strategically malevolent and strategically benevolent.  Like a politician if it can't convince, it confuses with its cheeky chappy short sentences and genuinely funny headlines.   Its values are silver (money money money) although it feigns to have gold (care for its readers - its customers are not its readers) and steel values (have integrity, quality journalism).   And being the Sun, called the Sun, it is powerful, life giving, and illuminates all that is good and bad in the world.  Its name taps into the subconscious and tell us we can't survive without it and literally and historically worship it.  Good marketing and branding, just it hides something much darker, which is what the documentary series reveals.
Murdoch has hid behind it, as have his cronies, his editors, his journalists.  And his silver values have seeped into their veins.

The real broken dysfunctional character is that of The Sun.   Directing the two actors on the stage.  Pretending to be what it is not. Relevant.