Thread: Fox News Owner News Corp: The Fallout

The Guardian reports:

Police are investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions of emails from an internal archive, in an apparent attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard's inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.

The archive is believed to have reached back to January 2005 revealing daily contact between News of the World editors, reporters and outsiders, including private investigators. The messages are potentially highly valuable both for the police and for the numerous public figures who are suing News International.

According to legal sources close to the police inquiry, a senior executive is believed to have deleted 'massive quantities' of the archive on two separate occasions, leaving only a small fraction to be disclosed. One of the alleged deletions is said to have been made at the end of January this year, just as Scotland Yard was launching Operation Weeting, its new inquiry into the affair.

The allegation directly contradicts repeated claims from News International that it is co-operating fully with police in order to expose its history of illegal news-gathering. It is likely to be seen as evidence that the company could not pass a 'fit and proper person' test for its proposed purchase of BSkyB....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...-international


And from Rupert Murdoch:

London, 6 July, 2011 - Recent allegations of phone hacking and making payments to police with respect to the News of the World are deplorable and unacceptable. I have made clear that our company must fully and proactively cooperate with the police in all investigations and that is exactly what News International has been doing and will continue to do under Rebekah Brooks’ leadership. We are committed to addressing these issues fully and have taken a number of important steps to prevent them from happening again. I have also appointed Joel Klein to provide important oversight and guidance and Joel and Viet Dinh, an Independent Director, are keeping News Corporation’s Board fully advised as well.

News Corporation


The criminal activity seems like it runs to the top executive level at News Corp at this point. They're now trying to destroy evidence.

This is the danger of having powerful, corporate media like News Corp that is only accountable to shareholders. It seems plausible that further investigations will happen into other branches of News Corp to see if and how criminal activity is standard operating procedure, given that high level executives are apparently involved.

Originally Posted by EnigmaO01

I would love to see FOX news go down.

And have zero conservative news outlets?? There's your "fairness" doctrine for ya!

Originally Posted by Bassman

And have zero conservative news outlets?? There's your "fairness" doctrine for ya!

No doubt you condone Murdoch and Company's actions here. Bribery, hacking, electronic evesdropping, destruction of evidence once caught? As long as all that leads to one less elected liberal or Democrat, you're good, right?