MURDOCH AND CO. FACE NEW SCANDALS

While it is unlikely that any coordinated planning was involved, several news outlets yesterday and today (Tuesday) rolled out investigative projects targeting Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, — among them Britain’s BBC, the London Independent, and America’s PBS. The BBC report claimed that the News Corp software company NDS cracked the access codes used by [...]

JAMES MURDOCH QUITS NEWS INTERNATIONAL BOARD

James Murdoch, who, as chairman of News International, had been the public face of his father Rupert’s newspaper business in the U.K. as scandal engulfed it beginning in 2009, has removed himself from the unit’s board. The announcement comes just weeks after he had resigned as chairman. Although he will now focus his attention on [...]

FORMER NEWS INTERNATIONAL CHIEF QUESTIONED AGAIN BY POLICE

Rebekah Brooks, once regarded as the most powerful woman in the British news media, was questioned by police again today (Thursday) purportedly about new evidence of illegal activity turned over to them by News Corp’s management and standards committee. Brooks was arrested last week on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, a [...]

ANOTHER MURDOCH PAPER CAUGHT IN SCANDAL — THE LONDON TIMES

Despite repeated assertions by News Corp executives, including James Murdoch, the former chairman of News International, which oversees the company’s British newspapers, that it intends to be “transparent” with the investigators probing the hacker scandal, yet another Murdoch-owned newspaper has been tainted by revelations of apparent cover-up of criminal conduct. Appearing before the inquiry on [...]

COULD U.K. POLICE PROBE OF NEWS CORP BE TAINTED?

Britain’s attorney general, Dominic Grieve, who serves as the chief legal adviser to the government, is examining the damning testimony by the head of Scotland Yard’s investigation into alleged telephone hacking and bribery by News International journalists after receiving “at least one complaint” that her remarks were potentially in contempt of court. Sue Akers, the [...]

DID DEPUTY MAYOR OF LONDON TRY TO STYMIE HACKING PROBE?

Last April, Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor of London and the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority (Scotland Yard), met with the then police commissioner — equivalent to the chief of police — and purportedly urged him to downsize his investigation into alleged voicemail hacking by reporters working for News of the World, the now-defunct tabloid [...]

ROLLING STONE WRITER’S WIKIPEDIA PAGE HACKED BY BREITMAN FANS

Of all the reactions to the death of conservative critic Andrew Breitbart on Thursday, none was more Breitbartian than that of Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, who posted this comment on the magazine’s website, under the heading “Death of a Douche”: “Good! F**k him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead. I say this in [...]

WIFE OF EX-P.M. BLAIR SAYS SHE WAS PHONE-HACKING VICTIM

The latest public figure in Britain to file suit against Rupert Murdoch’s News International is Cherie Blair, the wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Her attorney, Graham Atkins, said that the lawsuit was filed “in relation to the unlawful interception of her voicemails,” presumably by reporters and private investigators working for the now defunct [...]

HEATHER MILLS DENIES SHE GAVE PIERS MORGAN VOICEMAIL TAPES

Heather Mills, the ex-wife of Paul McCartney, has denied that she ever provided recordings of her telephone messages from McCartney to Piers Morgan or any other journalist. Mills, testifying before the British panel looking into journalistic ethics in the U.K., appeared to contradict a statement by the CNN host in his own testimony (via satellite) [...]

HACKING SCANDAL SPREADS TO LONDON TIMES

On his Twitter posts, Rupert Murdoch has remained oddly silent about the latest developments involving News Corp’s hacking scandal(s) in the U.K. While mentioning the latest market moves by Facebook and Google and remarking, “Things are buzzing,” Murdoch today (Friday) said nothing at all about the buzz over reports on Thursday that a crucial email exchange [...]

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