How does a newsroom adopt and normalize a culture of illegal activity to the point where a crime becomes seen as a prank?
Piers Morgan in a 2009 BBC interview, speaking about tabloid tactics when he was editor of News of the World, and later the Daily Mirror.
The family’s attorney said that Mr. Murdoch put his head in his hands as he expressed his grief. What more could he have done?
No, spare US.
(Source: observer.com)
Crouching Tiger, Flying Murdoch
Looks like Wendi also took a spill after she spiked the pie assailant in the face. That is love.
If you’re watching the Murdoch hearings live and wondering who that man above is: Meet Labor M.P. Tom Watson, aka Rupert Murdoch’s “Tormenter-in-Chief.”
Watson had appeared to many as a lonely and possibly unhinged figure as he railed against the apparent lawlessness of the Murdoch empire. While British politicians and media ignored the issue, Watson hammered away at it in speeches and parliamentary sessions, in the process becoming its public face—which was not necessarily a good image to have. Some friends, Watson admitted, “probably said, ‘This is getting a bit obsessive.‘”
10.12 am. Murdoch refuses to take any responsibility for the affair. Again: staggering. The notion of the buck stopping at the top seems completely alien to him. The total lack of interest in correcting wrongs, the blithe assurance that he has no ultimate responsibility - the NOTW representing a mere 1 percent of his company. He sounds like Cheney responding to war crimes.
Reblogged from JSTN
Mr. Hinton is coming under scrutiny for what he did and did not know when he ran the company from 1995 until 2007, the period when the most egregious known examples of voice mail hacking by News International employees took place.
Les Hinton resigns in the wake of the NOTW scandal, as predicted by Howie Kurtz. “What did he know, and when did he know it?” That’s the question we’ll be hearing over and over again as the investigations unfold.
(Source: The New York Times)
I think they’re doing the most they can with a very unpleasant and uncomfortable situation. No one ever wants to write about their boss…. And when you do, there’s always a degree of self-editing that goes on. Knowing that, it’s pretty impressive how they have been very tough on Murdoch and News Corp. at times.
A New York Times reporter, who didn’t wish to be named, discussing the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Which has gone like this:
After running articles on page B1 and B3 on its first two days, the News of the World closure made the front page last Friday. The story was then relegated back inside—although Journal reporters Jessica Vascellaro and Russell Adams broke news Wednesday with a report that News Corp. was contemplating the sale of its remaining British newspapers. As the scandal has continued to explode anew each day, the Journal has, indeed, upped its game. Murdoch’s decision to revoke his bid for British Sky Broadcasting was fronted again Wednesday, and yesterday, the paper published the first extensive interview with Murdoch.
To the alarm of American officials, some senior Scotland Yard officers at the heart of the phone-hacking scandal are the same officers they deal with routinely on high-profile terrorism investigations—notably Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who has been accused this week of misleading Parliament about the extent of the phone-hacking evidence.
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