Harold Evans: ‘Rupert Murdoch is the stiletto, a man of method, a cold-eyed manipulator’ Rupert Murdoch, the new owner of Times Newspapers in 1981, flanked by Harold Evans and William Rees Mogg. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty In a new preface to his book, Good Times, Bad Times, the former Sunday Times editor connects the phone-hacking crisis [...]
BDS poses a great danger for Israel. (BDS campaign graphic) By Samah Sabawi The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist. The invention of Max Brenner the Jewish chocolatier demonstrated [...]
The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program The Listening Post, chronicles how the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in the United States. AMY GOODMAN: Our guest is Richard Gizbert. He is [...]
Rebekah Brooks, then the News of the World editor, with Sara Payne, mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne at a meeting to discuss Sarah’s law in 2002. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA . 5.25pm: Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the latest twist in the News of the World phone-hacking saga. As you may have [...]
PCC chair Peta Buscombe is expected to be the next head to roll after the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Photograph: SWNS The chair of the Press Complaints Commission, Peta Buscombe, appears about to be the next victim of the phone-hacking scandal. She is said to be preparing to make a formal announcement of her [...]
Sarah Payne was murdered by Roy Whiting in 2000. The mobile phone details of her mother, Sara, have been found in Glenn Mulcaire‘s notes. Photograph: PA Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted [...]
George Osborne has attended 16 meetings since the 2010 general election at which News International executives were present. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA George Osborne met Rebekah Brooks on five occasions in the year following the 2010 general election, according to figures released on Tuesday afternoon, that show how the chancellor cultivated relationships with senior figures at News [...]
DPP was warned hacking was rife at Murdoch paper By Oliver Wright, Whitehall EditorPA/GETTY The Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, left, and, right: Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General ENLARGE The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there [...]
How Would Murdoch’s Downfall Affect Israel? Don’t Ask the US Media by JAMES M. WALL on JULY 25, 2011 JTA columnist Ron Kampeas has been a lone voice in sounding the alarm to his Jewish readers: “Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is threatening to [...]
Robbie Williams: Scotland Yard told his solicitor that a number of his clients were referred to in Glenn Mulcaire‘s documents. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Now it’s the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been [...]
The Wall Street Journal could have done a better job in its Rupert Murdoch interview, its editorial committee has said. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features The Wall Street Journal “could have done a better job” when it published an interview with proprietor Rupert Murdoch in which he said News Corporation had made only “minor mistakes” in managing the phone-hacking [...]
James Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch appear on television during their questioning by the culture, media and sport select committee last week. Photograph: David Moir/Reuters 12.57pm: Here’s some coverage of phone-hacking elsewhere, some of it suggested by readers below the line. The Daily Telegraph has a report on Andy Hayman, one of the former senior Scotland Yard [...]
Vince Cable also told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show that big questions remained over the Murdoch empire’s suitability to run a UK broadcaster. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA No other media company should ever have the same influence in the UK as Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation, the Vince Cable has said. “There are other big media companies which could have [...]
Rupert Murdoch was accused by the Acpo president, Sir Hugh Orde, of ‘complete denial of any responsibility of his organisation’. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers,has lambasted Rupert Murdoch, saying the chairman of News Corporation had shown a complete denial of responsibility for what had gone on in his [...]
Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual 21 July 2011 In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp scandal is sending shock waves across the UK, as protesters reject the mogul’s denial of reponsibility for criminal behaviour within his empire [GALLO/GETTY] Embroiled in a scandal that has global implications, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is under fire due to the ongoing fallout resulting from the News of the World scandal. But while News Corp [...]
Former No 10 communications boss Andy Coulson was a witness in a 2010 trial involving Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AP Andy Coulson, the prime minister’s former director of communications, is being investigated by police for allegedly committing perjury while working for David Cameron in Downing Street. The development renews pressure on the prime [...]
James Murdoch told MPs he agreed to agreed to the Gordon Taylor payout in ignorance of the true facts. Photograph: Reuters Tom Crone and Colin Myler were well aware that the statement they were about to make could prove fatal to James Murdoch. When the Guardian pointed out in the wake of his parliamentary testimony that Murdoch’s [...]
If you missed any of the display at the hearing by Murdoch and Son, don’t fret you did not miss anything of any substance whatsoever. The calculated and planned style adopted by the now seemingly humble, aging and contrite father was juxtaposed with the incoherent corporate ramblings of the ‘heir apparent’ son along with [...]
Prime minister David Cameron, flanked by Nick Clegg, told the Commons he would make a ‘profound apology’ if it emerged that Andy Coulson lied over his involvement in illegal phone hacking. Photograph: Reuters David Cameron finally broke with Andy Coulson on Wednesday when he expressed regret for the furore caused by his decision to [...]
The 12 Nastiest Villains in the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal Here’s an incomplete guide to the villains in the drama that threatens to take down the Murdoch empire. July 18, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. TAKE ACTION Change.org|Get [...]
The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has confirmed that a preliminary investigation is under way into News Corporation’s activities. Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP News Corporation faces a global investigation of all its businesses to ascertain whether they engaged in the same acts of bribery revealed to have taken place in the UK between News of the [...]
Rebekah Brooks, the former head of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper wing, will face questioning by British parliamentarians on Tuesday following her release on bail on suspicion of bribing police and illegally intercepting voicemail messages. The phone-hacking scandal surrounding Murdoch’s media empire has forced several of his top officials to resign, as well as two of Britain’s top [...]
Rupert Murdoch speaks to the media in London after meeting with the family of Milly Dowler, July 2011. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA To accuse Rupert Murdoch of shedding crocodile tears, with his head-in-hands apology to the family of Milly Dowler and his widely printed apology at the weekend, would be an insult to honest crocodiles everywhere. A more [...]
Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation, will apologise for any wrongdoing committed at his News of the World newspaper, according to Reuters. The news agency reported on Friday the apology would be published as a full-page spread in British national newspapers this weekend. Under a large headline “We are sorry,” the apology will contain the following message signed at the bottom by [...]
All the righteous indignation from the UK politicians and probably the US ones soon will not change the basic proposition that people like Rupert attract the power they have because the self same politicians allowed it to happen. The point of interest is that the politicians and the lackey media stood back with no real [...]
Andy Coulson leaving Lewisham police station last week. David Cameron said he never received warnings about Coulson’s fitness for a job in government. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA David Cameron revealed in parliament that warnings about his former communications chief’s fitness for a job in government, made to one of his most senior aides, were not [...]
Media Tycoon Rupert Murdoch has been in London trying to prop up a crumbling empire. All parts of his UK media business have come under close scrutiny in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of his best-selling Sunday newspaper, the News of the World. Now the storm has crossed the Atlantic, touching on Murdoch’s [...]
