WORLD VISION:

LONDON: The UK-based Specsavers Optical Group Ltd has offered two English journalists free consultations and whatever strength prescription glasses are deemed necessary to fully restore their sight after both penned bizarre observations about media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

In a piece for The Telegraph in London and reproduced in Thursday’s edition of The Sydney Morning Herald (above) , Camilla Tominey wrote of a picture of Murdoch with his new girlfriend 25 years his junior that Murdoch, 91, appeared “young at heart”.

She wrote: “Soaking up the Barbados sun in the company of Ann-Lesley Smith, a one-time police chaplain and former wife of a US country music star, the father of six and grandfather of 13 still appears young at heart – less than six months after his divorce from fourth wife Jerry Hall.

Worse was to come, raising alarm bells at Specsavers.

Tominey added: “As Dominic Ponsford, editor of Press Gazette, put it: ‘‘It certainly does not harm Rupert, at the age of 91, to be exuding an image of vitality and virility when what happens next with News Corp and Fox remains the talk of Fleet Street.’’

Appeared young at heart? Exuding an image of vitality and virility?

Forget free Specsavers treatment. What are these two “journalists” on and where can we all get some?

And exactly how does someone appear “young at heart”.

Perhaps Tominey missed another shot from that Bardados beach showing a young man having to help Murdoch from the water. There’s bugger-all evidence from that shot that Murdoch is young at anything.

Just about every fair and reasonable and balanced journalist of sound sight around the world (shit…. that puts anyone at Newscorpse Australia out of contention!) would have to say the only signs Murdoch displayed where of a wrinkly, crinkly, decrepit nonagenarian who has trouble standing up let alone getting it up.

Once again, and to be fair to both these “journalists”, perhaps Tominey and Ponsford saw something else the rest of the world didn’t see.

Perhaps there’s amazing video of a young-at-heart, vital and virile Murdoch pushing that young bloke aside and racing some metres up to his beach bag containing his viagra pills after the lovely Ann-Lesley had whispered into his ear that she’d love nothing more than to suck for hours on his 91-year-old wrinkled, shrivelled and seedless ball sack that looks and feels like 20-grit sandpaper.