News Corp comes out of its shell
Dr Mumbo thanks the many and varied corners of the News Corp empire who kindly followed up yesterday’s “reply all” email by forwarding him the numerous alternative threads which have been circulating.
The emails, which went out to 1,000 plus News employees, are a glorious collection of turtle related memes (a joke Dr Mumbo still doesn’t fully appreciate he believes but stems from a crack about needing a waterbottle for a turtle), happy birthday wishes, News Corp in-jokes and irate colleagues pleading with people to “please stop spamming” large parts of the company.
For the amusement of the industry, Dr Mumbo presents the highlights of the News Corp Turtle emails:
You got to love Ninja Turtles and The Daily Telegraph’s Amy Stevenson certainly does:
And she’s not the only one… 
Dr Mumbo is also a fan of the correspondence that went in and around the turtle memes. Like this email from columnist Miranda Devine who noted that “most of us don’t know what a Fat Wire is” (for those wondering Fatwire, spelled thus, is the pre-Methode online publishing system).
While others, like investigative journalist at The Australian Anthony Klan, embraced “the reply all” with suggestions of a knighthood for each replier.
Dr Mumbo would also like to add a belated happy birthday to Damien Ratcliffe, Angus Thompson and Don Knappstein:
News director of the Courier Mail Chris Barlett gets a special mention for treating the email chain with the seriousness it deserved:
While his colleague Dave Earley, who also featured yesterday, made the obvious joke:
Then there are the people who worry about the tech savviness of their colleagues, or complain they didn’t get their free water bottles:
While others are just smart-arses:
But for Dr Mumbo’s money there’s only one way to really send the “don’t reply all” message. Full points to Chris Bowden for this email:
Glad to see Murdoch’s minions have so much time on their hands.
While they are replying all to all – they have less time to trash-talk the ABC!
so there is a god…
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