There's only two realistic possibilities that exist given Murdoch's "testimony": either he's a crook and a liar and needs to be removed or he's incompetent and needs to be removed.
If he does go (and/or if this has any actual negative impacts on News Corp/Fox), this will be the perfect example of the big, bad liberal media attempting to destroy an upstanding patriotic station/person.
I bet that guy who threw the pie will get a prison term and not just a caution. You know in the end the corrupt mp's will do whats good for their pockets.
Mr Murdoch told the media committee he was not "aware" of an email suggesting the practice went wider than a "rogue" News of the World reporter.
Former NoW editor Colin Myler and ex-NI legal manager Tom Crone said they "did inform" him of the email.
It's also worth noting that NI/NC have now given their lawyers permission to talk. Previously the firm had complained that they couldn't counter inaccurate statements by the company regarding their handling of the cases because of confidentiality concerns. It looks fairly limited, only allowing the firm to deal with police or parliamentary questions.
Not sure if I like this honestly. It takes all of the wind of any investigations into the growing scandal. And really changes nothing. The culture of corruption pretty much infects the place from the ground up.
i do agree with you completely on that point. but i am kinda glad that the murdochs may be out of the news game, at least for now if there is truth to this rumor.
I'm not going to endorse everything Daniel Larison says (seriously, Larison is someone that you rarely want to link unless people are familiar with his worldview). But I really do feel that this raises a good point about perspective and priorities. And though I can mount a good pragmatic defense to Larison's post, I believe that the underlying moral question deserves thought.
Well, people care more about stories that hit closer to home and can theoreticaly (though no matter how unlikely) happen to them rather than a war that could have more significant long term effects that is in some 3rd world country. It may be due to none of us having to wage anything close to a civil war, thus less to identify with and less interest, more so than anything to do with morals.
One of Rupert Murdoch's most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries about a circulation scam at News Corporation's flagship newspaper, the Wall Street Journal.
The Guardian found evidence that the Journal had been channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate, misleading readers and advertisers about the Journal's true circulation.
The bizarre scheme included a formal, written contract in which the Journal persuaded one company to co-operate by agreeing to publish articles that promoted its activities, a move which led some staff to accuse the paper's management of violating journalistic ethics and jeopardising its treasured reputation for editorial quality.
Internal emails and documents suggest the scam was promoted by Andrew Langhoff, the European managing director of the Journal's parent company, Dow Jones and Co, which was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in July 2007. Langhoff resigned on Tuesday.
The scale is obscene. Last year the scam covered some 41% of all WSJ sales in Europe.
Looks like just he European edition so far, but fairly high level involvement by the looks of things. This sort of fraud is, from a financial point of view, considerably more serious than the phone hacking. Stross has some perspective and I'd recommend the comments as well. This popped up fairly quickly.
The News of the World hired a former police officer early last year to carry out surveillance on two prominent lawyers representing victims of phone hacking, BBC Newsnight has learned.
BBC Newsnight has obtained a dossier of evidence from an ex-policeman hired by the News of The World (NoW) which shows the newspaper was engaged in covert surveillance on an industrial scale.
Over eight years Derek Webb was paid to follow more than 90 targets selected by staff at the newspaper.
His targets included Prince William, former attorney general Lord Goldsmith and football pundit Gary Lineker.
Relatives, such as the parents of actor Daniel Radcliffe, were also targeted.
