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The bottom drawer streaming service, Foxtel, revealed yesterday to shareholders that without the opiate of sport, the company is really ‘struggling’ to generate revenue.
Aside from those shareholders, the rest of the nation is awash with schadenfreude this morning because of the news.
Schadenfreude is a German word that means finding pleasure from another person’s misfortune.
That person is Rupert Murdoch, a largely unpopular figure in Australian, British and American news media.
More locally, a Betoota Heights man provided comment on the news this morning, telling our reporters that he found Foxtel’s woes quite funny.
“I mean, you look at what News Corp has done to our democracy, you can’t help but feel good when they experience pain,” he said.
“You know, I’ve never met Rupert Murdoch but from what I’ve been lead to believe by my left-leaning private school friends is that he’s a bit of a prick and is mean to everyone. I might just be a simple waterproofer but it’s got me fucked how one posh cunt from Adelaide is allowed to choose who the Prime Minister of Australia is – let alone the President,”
“But yeah, back to what you were saying. That German word you said pretty much sums it up. I’m feeling shower fraud.”
Our reporter interviewed three other people in the queue for bagels this morning and they all said pretty much the same thing – a good enough barometer for the national sentiment.
More to come.
