New allegations besiege Murdoch media empire

Another Murdoch owned media outlet involved in shady practices? Surely it must be a coincidence! Ha ha ha!

And Brooks was editor of The Sun at the time and didn't know anything about this? Where have we heard that before?

What goes around comes around.

So if tabloid clerks can hack phones, twitter and lots of other so called secure sites... Are you secure? Do you use a VPN? All my computers do.

A tabloid newspaper owner being a slime, why is everyone so surprised? You can't buy legitimacy in Britain, but you can buy a title.

Gee, there seems to be no end to the rot of this entire organization, from the head on down.

Rivals the BBC for corruption.

ihavegreatlegs - Yes. No.

Rivals the BBC for corruption.

What utter nonsense.

“The events of last week shocked the nation,” Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt told lawmakers Monday. He said Britain’s proud press tradition had been “shaken by the revelation of what we now know to have happened at the News of The World.”

Great Britain (!)

"Rivals the BBC for corruption."

I think with that little gem you've become an solitary exception to the rule of "sling enough mud and it will eventually stick".

Rivals the BBC for corruption.

This follows NewsCorps' practice of "If you can't respond to an issue intelligently, make things up."

Rivals the BBC for corruption.

BTW being inspired by Andrew Breitbart then accusing others of corrupt practice takes incredible chutzpah.

yabits: Gee, there seems to be no end to the rot of this entire organization, from the head on down

But there's no chance Murdoch will be punished - he has way too much money.

But there's no chance Murdoch will be punished - he has way too much money.

The greatest punishment is to stop buying his newspapers, stop watching his TV stations, hit the bottom line. Already the anti-Murdoch backlash in the UK is massive. If the reports of hacking 9/11 victims' phones hold water the sentiment will spread to the US, then it may become a PR battle. One thing is for sure, the ability to manipulate and decieve the public is diminishing every day the world becomes more connected. Ironic that NewsCorp made such a mess of their one attempt to enter that market - MySpace. For a corporation that makes it's money on creating divisions to try to get into a market that brings people together was always doomed to failure.

The idea that some wonderful ethics operates at the highest level of the newspaper industry is either the belief of the highly naive or a last desparate smokescreen of the guilty. How high level media management can say all these unethical tricks go on further down the chains without higher management awareness is beyond me. Hopefully the government will put it on hold until the court cases are over so that can review the situation with most of the facts in place instead of just unproven allegations so far. Most likely the allegations will not be proven.

BTW being inspired by Andrew Breitbart then accusing others of corrupt practice takes incredible chutzpah.

It's not an accusation when the corporation in question has admitted to a definite political bias and to wrongdoing. Go after Murdoch all you want. He's a ghoul in my book. Hacking the phones of 9-11 victims in America is beyond the pale. But that hardly means government-backed media corporations are above suspicion, the BBC in particular.

Can you be more specific? Noone's claiming anyone is squeaky clean but to jump from that to corruption claims and putting them in the same bucket as News Corp is quite far-fetched.

"But that hardly means government-backed media corporations are above suspicion, the BBC in particular."

Suspicions is all you have now you've backed down from your earlier mud-slinging.

From latest news reports, it seems that Murdoch might be inclined to sell up the UK operation entirely - Times, Sun, FT, shares in BSkyB etc. He will then head back to America, taking favoured son James and the loathsome Rebekah Brooks with him. This seems to be fine with Americans, as represented here on JT, so everybody will be happy.

bobobolinski: This seems to be fine with Americans, as represented here on JT

Huh? I and most Americans I know, consider Murdoch pond scum.

To bobobolinski: And he will get a special welcome here in the US if it turns out that he really did hack the cell phones of 911 victims - in case you haven't noticed we have some strong feelings about that event.