Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry. A vivid imagination compensates his fading memory. Photograph: AP Rupert Murdoch: myth, memory and imagination The version of history told by Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry bears no relation to what actually happened Harold Evans guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 April 2012 20.37 BST Article history Rupert Murdoch has apparently lost a [...]
Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch in the US in 1991 – they had secretly met 10 years previously before Murdoch’s successful bid for Times Newspapers. Photograph: John Mantel/Rex Features • Share206 reddit this Alan Travis, home affairs editor The Guardian, Saturday 17 March 2012 Article history Read the original documents here A secret meeting between Rupert Murdoch and Margaret [...]
Leveson inquiry: Nick Davies, Paul McMullan, Richard Peppiatt – live • Former Daily Star reporter apologises to the family of Matt Lucas‘s ex-partner and others for stories he made up • He says reporters on tabloids were ‘cannon fodder‘ for proprietors and he was threatened after he started to speak out 1.05pm: The inquiry is now [...]
Vanunu appears in court in 2007 (MaanImages) JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s supreme court on Thursday barred nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu from emigrating on the grounds he still poses a threat to state security, Israeli media reported. Vanunu, under orders to stay in Tel Aviv and not to speak to journalists, “has proved several times [...]
4 Ways the Murdoch Scandal Points To Rot at the Top Gag money, lies, political warfare and conflicts of interest are all in a day’s work at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. July 11, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via [...]
In addition to Brown,the News of the World‘s hacking scandal is alleged to have targeted Britain’s royal family [Reuters] Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister, has accused Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper business of employing criminals to obtain confidential information about his family and others. Brown told the BBC on Tuesday that it appeared that the [...]
What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 12th July 2011 Is Murdoch now finished in the UK? As the pursuit of Gordon Brown by the Sunday Times and the Sun blows the ¬hacking scandal into new corners of the old [...]
