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Rupert Murdoch called his News of the World tabloid an "aberration" overnight, accusing journalists of hiding phone-hacking from himself, his son James and his protegee Rebekah Brooks, and said he wished he had shut it down sooner.
"The News of the World, to be quite honest, was an aberration, and it's my fault," the media mogul said in a second day of testimony in Britain's High Court on Thursday. "I'm sorry I didn't close it years before."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/murdoch-blames-rogue-tabloid-news-of-the-world-for-phonehacking-20120427-1xonf.html#ixzz1tC8ixze3- By Gus Leonisky at 27 Apr 2012 - 5:39pm
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a shameful lie...
"Someone took charge of a cover-up, which we were victim to and I regret," he said.
The inquiry's top counsel, Robert Jay, picked up on Murdoch's admission of a cover-up, causing consternation among Murdoch's legal team, and forcing Judge Brian Leveson to ask one of the party to sit down.
Asked where the culture of cover-up had originated, Murdoch answered: "I think from within the News of the World. There were one or two very strong characters there who I think had been there many, many years and were friends of the journalists.
"The person I'm thinking of was a friend of the journalists and a drinking pal and clever lawyer and forbade them ... to report to Mrs Brooks or to James," said Murdoch.
In a response later, the News of the World's former top lawyer Tom Crone called Murdoch's assertions a "shameful lie".
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/murdoch-blames-rogue-tabloid-news-of-the-world-for-phonehacking-20120427-1xonf.html#ixzz1tDySl3Fktoo cute to pass...
I'm under strict instructions by my lawyers not to say this but I'm going to ... I was really shocked over the statement of (Daily Mail editor Paul) Dacre the other day with his editorial policy is driven by commercial interests. I think that is about the most unethical thing I've heard for a long time and what's more, from the most surprising source as I have great respect for his abilities.
Rupert Murdoch------------------
One of the thingsters that would have made Uncle Rupe miss the ratbaggery at the NotW would have been that this newsrag was bringing in the most profit in the UK for News Corp... Ain't this a good reason to see nofin'?....
remembering the lecture...
http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/5511#comment-7795
Not enough said of course, except if I remember well, someone in the audience called out "BULLSIT"... It could have been edited out of the final transmission...
see also:
http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/18057#comment-20461