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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's Time the Justice Dept. Got Serious About Hacking Allegations by Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire
http://www.alternet.org/media/murdoch-bugger-buggedSo it turns out that when Rupert Murdoch told MPs here looking into the phone hacking scandal that it was the most humble day of my life, he didnt really mean it. Had his fingers crossed behind his back. If the revelation that the man behind Fox News, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal might not always tell the truth doesnt strike you as hold the front page stuff, its still well worth listening to the tape of Murdochs March meeting atThe Sun here that surfaced last week on the investigative journalism website Exaro and was later broadcast on Channel Four television.
In it the billionaire tyrant faces a group of about twenty-five journalists, some of whom face charges either because of their role in phone hacking or for making illegal payments to police officers and public officialsthe focus of Operation Elveden, which saw two more Sun reporters arrested last month. Only last April, Murdoch told the Leveson Inquiry that paying police officers for information is wrong. But on the tape Murdoch can be clearly heard saying, Payments for news tips from cops: thats been going on a hundred years, absolutely.
He continues: When I first bought the News of the World, the first day I went to the office and there was a big wall safe. And I said, Whats that for? And they said, We keep some cash in there. And I said, What for? They said, Well, sometimes the editor needs some on a Saturday night for powerful friends.
When some of the journalists complain that they have been hung out to dry by the companys Management and Standards Committeewhich reports to former New York City schools chancellor Joel Kleinwho turned over millions of internal e-mails to prosecutors, Murdoch assures them the company havent given them anything for months.
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It's Time the Justice Dept. Got Serious About Hacking Allegations by Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2013
OP
How do you know they are not serious? And by "look in to" do you mean surveillence? nt
kelliekat44
Jul 2013
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marmar
(77,091 posts)1. Absolutely.
k/r
bemildred
(90,061 posts)2. They need to look into Murdoch's involvement in government spying.
He is definitely one of the media moguls Snowden is saying were in bed with the spooks.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)3. How do you know they are not serious? And by "look in to" do you mean surveillence? nt
Murdoch should be in prison
Autumn
(45,120 posts)5. Sic the NSA on him. Ought to get something for our money.
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Trillo
(9,154 posts)6. If the NSA is hacking everyone, and if the NSA programs are generally with the assent of government,
then why would the government ever go after a rich person and their company that does the same?