Why Is There An American Media Blackout of the UK’s News Corp. Eavesdropping Scandal?
enlarge Credit: yourdemocracy.net.au I bet most readers of blogs don’t even know much about this major UK media scandal perpetrated by Rupert Murdoch’s English tabloids and we’re online and digesting news almost 24/7. Why? Because there’s been an almost complete blackout by the US media over this eavesdropping scandal. Here’s a primer if you’ve never read anything on it before: The News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal Never Ends: A look at the latest developments This actually could spell big trouble for News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch, but you’d never know it from the American press. Hey, what’s a little eavesdropping on the royal family and almost everybody else? Digby writes: Michael Wolfe, the man who literally wrote the book on Rupert Murdoch on the eavesdropping scandal .From what he says it’s a much tighter case than I realized: In sum: It is now well-documented that employees of Murdoch’s News of the World British tabloid eavesdropped on the voice mail messages of practically anybody who was anybody in Britain for the better part of the last 10 years—the most recent revelations put Kate Middleton and Tony Blair on this list—including, undoubtedly, some of the people who went to the News Corp. party. Although this might not have seemed like much of a crime while it was being committed by myriad News Corp. reporters, and sanctioned by their bosses—just hacks being hacks—it has since transmuted into a profound breach of the civil trust. And to date, each next domino in the inquest has fallen. The informed speculation in U.K. media and political circles is about which present and former members of the top circle of News Corp. management in London will next be frog marched in front of a tribunal. In addition to company chief Rebekah Wade Brooks (who herself appears to have been hacked by reporters) and her predecessor Les Hinton, who now runs The Wall Street Journal
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Why Is There An American Media Blackout of the UK’s News Corp. Eavesdropping Scandal?
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