Media mogul Rupert Murdoch congratulated one of his company’s newspapers, the Telegraph, for being among the first to report on the hostage situation in Sydney, Australia, which resulted in three deaths in several injuries.
“[Australia] gets wake-call with Sydney terror,” Murdoch, 83, tweeted Monday afternoon. “Only Daily Telegraph caught the bloody outcome at 2.00 am. Congrats.”
Predictably, others who saw the tweet saw it as insensitive to the situation, which did not conclude until hours later.
“You’re a disgusting little man,” one person replied to Murdoch.
“People die and you congratulate the media,” said another. “What’s your deal?”
The backlash comes less than a month after another controversial tweet by Murdoch, in which he claimed “all” Egyptians he knows are “white.” Most Egyptians are actually darker in skin tone.
