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Rupert Murdoch criticised for 'gloating' about his paper's Sydney siege coverage









News Corp boss tweeted to congratulate staff at his Sydney paper the Daily Telegraph for reporting siege’s bloody end in final edition

















Rupert Murdoch has sent more than 1,250 tweets since joining Twitter in December 2011. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters




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Tuesday 16 December 2014 08.02 EST







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Since taking to Twitter, Rupert Murdoch appears to have found the ability to say exactly what he wants, whenever he wants, to be quite liberating.
However, the 83-year-old media mogul may have gone too far this time by using the platform to praise his Sydney paper the Daily Telegraph for getting the end of the cafe siege into its final edition on Tuesday. 


— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch)
December 15, 2014
AUST gets wake-call with Sydney terror. Only Daily Telegraph caught the bloody outcome at 2.00 am. Congrats.



The comment provoked criticism online, with Jim Roberts, executive editor of Mashable, typical of the responses: “3 people died in #Sydney hostage siege; @rupertmurdoch gloats about his newspaper’s coverage.”
Bruce Guthrie, former editor of both Murdoch’s Melbourne daily the Herald Sun, and its Fairfax competitor the Age, and now editorial director of the New Daily, summed it up as: “Dirty digger now gleeful ghoul.”
Neither was the Tel’s splash headline – “Death cult CBD [central business district] attack” – an exercise in measured restraint, prompting the New Daily to mock it up thus: 


— The New Daily (@TheNewDaily_)
December 15, 2014
People react online after Rupert Murdoch’s ‘bloody outcome’ tweet: http://t.co/I68xWZkJW1 pic.twitter.com/wa95YMn1it



Around the same time Rupe also said on Twitter: 


— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch)
December 15, 2014
AUST, UK and US likely to catch most plots. Lone Wolves are the frightening danger.



He hasn’t opined any further, but Monkey will keep a watchful eye on Twitter so you don’t have to.



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