Former Editor Says Murdoch Sowed Seeds of Hacking Scandal

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Former editor says Murdoch sowed seeds of hacking scandal

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton
LONDON | Fri May 18, 2012 3:16am BST

(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch sowed the seeds of the phone hacking scandal that has tarnished his reputation by forcing Britain's most respected newspapers into "a Faustian bargain" with the powerful, a former editor of the UK's Times newspaper said on Thursday.

Harry Evans told a British media inquiry how as editor of the Times he battled attempts by Murdoch to compel him to support Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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Evans is now editor at large for Reuters, which is owned by Thomson Reuters. The Thomson family, who owned the Times and the Sunday Times before Murdoch acquired them, controls Thomson Reuters.

Expressing disgust at a fall in journalistic standards that he said Murdoch helped stoke by fostering a culture of trifling scandal, Evans said reporters needed principles to prevent them getting too close to the powerful.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/uk-britain-hacking-idUKBRE84H03W20120518

[kestrel91316]

1. Murdoch needs to spend the rest of his hatemongering life in prison.

[mazzarro]

2. +100% -- n/t

[beac]

3. Of course he did. And our stupid country did the most "Faustian bargain" of all with the

a-hole and made him a citizen.

I can only hope he'll end up enjoying our lovely for-profit prison system some day.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. He is the villain

[Left Coast2020]

6. I'll say it again, "Book em Danno."