Just a matter of time

[lazarus]

I believe it's just a matter of time before the dirty tricks involving the Murdoch empire in the US will exposed. My guess is that , Fox news executives, The Wall Street Journal journalists and all the NI outlets are scrambling to shed documents, delete emails, sever contacts, bury the "bodies".

You reap what you sow.

[lazarus]

just saw this:

The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch, its billionaire chairman and CEO, has definitely crossed the pond.

U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have begun calling for inquiries into whether the unsavory reporting practices of the company’s British newspapers have broken U.S. law and affected U.S. citizens, signaling the possible beginnings of the kind of political pile-on that forced News Corp. to shutter its biggest-selling newspaper in Britain, the News of the World, and withdraw from a huge pending broadcasting deal on Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58943.html#ixzz1S56uDqJ7

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58943.html

[phkrause]

Am I right in also hearing that this goes back to 911????

[lazarus]

The FBI have started a probe. Who knows where this will lead.

[Dr. Shane]

From the link posted:

Quote:

U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have begun calling for inquiries into whether the unsavory reporting practices of the company’s British newspapers have broken U.S. law and affected U.S. citizens...

“What is happening in the U.K. is a nuclear meltdown,” said Wolff. “News Corp. will have to withdraw from the U.K.. It is essentially in full retreat. It will have to dispose of its assets there which are losing value by the minute, so that puts the U.S. in an interesting a peculiar position, that a company could essentially fold in one country and continue as though nothing happened in another country.

There is no indication in the story that the Wall Street Journal or FOXNews have been guilty of doing what the News of the World was doing.

[Kyran]

Same thing is happening in Australia. Our Green's leader is really milking it for all it's worth. Here's an excerpt from one columnist who is really feeling it.

Quote:

So Brown’s demand for an inquiry into how much conservative opinion should be published, and how, comes when support for free speech has never been so weak.

Already we’ve seen new laws passed so people can sue others into silence for simply expressing an opinion on race, religion or gender.

Frustratingly, I’m forbidden on legal advice from commenting on my own experiences on this score.

So what’s brought us to this astonishing point?

The excuse is the phone hacking scandal, which has seen Murdoch’s News International close Britain’s biggest-selling Sunday newspaper, News of the World.

I’ve been disgusted by what I’ve read, of investigators working for the paper hacking into the voicemails of thousands of people, from families of dead soldiers to that of a murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl.

I’ve been dismayed to read of that paper bribing police for information.

These revelations or allegations bring shame to the organisation and taint all of us working in it. I’ve also been distressed by what seems an appalling PR response by News International. The failure to properly investigate and disclose these abuses are bad enough.

Then there’s the sacking of some 200 innocent News of the World journalists, while News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of the paper when some of the worst offences allegedly occurred, was kept on - until she quit only last night.

But even Brown, even at the height of his opportunism, admits he has no evidence that Murdoch papers here have hacked phones. No one in the media could seriously suggest the News Ltd culture in Australia resembles that of Britain’s tabloids.

No, Brown is simply seizing on a scandal at one rogue paper in Britain to pursue an unrelated ideological jihad against our freedoms here, using his unearned political power over this Government to push for laws that will shield his side of politics from scrutiny.

In a healthier age, Brown would be denounced as a totalitarian.

But he is powerful, Gillard is desperate, the elite media supine and News now weakened.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andre...our_newspapers/

I've bolded what I believe is an accurate portrayal of the situation (at least in Australia). Unless investigations in the UK point to wrong doings in other divisions, then there's no reason for local inquiries to take place both here and in the US.