Murdoch Makes Fresh Apology Over Hacking Scandal

[KeepItReal]

Source: Bloomberg

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. made a fresh apology for the phone-hacking scandal on U.K. national newspapers as opposition Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband called for a breakup of the 80-year-old’s media empire.

Under the headline “Putting right what’s gone wrong,” News International, News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit, said it’s the company’s obligation to provide full cooperation with the police and compensation for those affected. The publisher is “committed to change” and said “apologising for our mistakes and fixing them are only the first steps.”

The escalating crisis around the News of the World has within two weeks forced the closure of the 168-year-old tabloid and the resignation of executives including News International Chief Executive Officer Rebekah Brooks and former Chairman Les Hinton. Murdoch withdrew its 7.8 billion pound ($12.6 billion) bid for full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc. (BSY)

“He has too much power over British public life,” Miliband said in an interview with the Observer newspaper today. “We’ve got to look at the situation whereby one person can own more than 20 percent of the newspaper market, the Sky platform and Sky News. I think it’s unhealthy.”

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-17/news-corp-pledges-compensation-co-operation-over-phone-hacking.html

[JHB]

1. Twice nothing is still nothing n/t

[onehandle]

2. When is he going to apologize for the damage Fox News has done to the U.S.? nt

[UpInArms]

3. Murdoch's corporate empire is a destroyer of worlds

eom

[Sal Minella]

4. I don't understand why they bother to apologize -- this must

give them the feeling that they're "doing something."

BP apologized profusely for its crimes and moral failures in the Gulf, but the oil blobs are still washing up on the beaches.

Murdoch can apologize until he's blue in the face, but the crap is still floating around in the media.

[lunatica]

6. My sentiments exactly

Public apologies after years of corruption and illegal behavior just because your graft and greed are uncovered is profoundly cynical and it's depraved self-service.

[glinda]

14. +1

[u4ic]

21. Damage control

I read a piece a year or so ago (cbc? Toronto Star?) about the new tactic of admitting problems and apologizing in the corporate world, rather than the tried and true 'dodging' of issues. A perception of owning up to the problem, and hence, being more trustworthy than the deniers.

The words "Murdoch" and "trust" don't belong in the same galaxy, never mind the same sentence.

[Frank Cannon]

5. This "apology" and 99 cents will buy me a large Coke at McDonald's.

No, the "first step" is to have the higher-ups responsible visibly arrested and thrown in prison for numerous years, since we no longer chop people's heads off and put them on spikes in front of the castle. It is by making unfortunate examples of people that we best ensure that bad behavior like theirs no longer continues. Otherwise, it will always continue to be just another cost of doing business.

[Botany]

7. Sorry isn't going to do it this time Rupert

You bribed police, corrupted the government, and gave more pain to people already going through hell
by the time this is over you will be lucky not to be in jail.


Rupert has to pay up for his meddling in the Florida 2000 vote too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIGQyF2Yjo

[Hubert Flottz]

8. He's really soooooo sorry that his ass is in a large sling.

He just wishes he had never been found out and that this would all go away and like the man from BP, that he could just have his super fine billionaire life back. He never knew fucking over all those people would ever catch up to him, because if he had known he would have done a far better job of covering his very sorry ass. He's just so sorry that he got careless enough to trust his most trusted flunkies to take ALL the falls for him. He's so worried that now his son might not also be allowed by these horrid circumstances of late, to carry on his campaign of worldwide political terrorism and controlling the human herd through lies, propaganda and total distortion of reality, the way his old daddy has.

[Stuart G]

9. well said..nt

[firehorse]

10. Do monopoly laws apply anymore? anywhere?

[fascisthunter]

11. fuck him and his anti-democratic Nazi ideology

[Irishonly]

12. The phrase empty words keeps coming to mind n/t

[LeftishBrit]

13. Sorry he's been caught, no doubt!

And Ed Miliband is quite right!

[glinda]

15. Never believe a sociopath when he says he is sorry.

[Iliyah]

16. This guys is trying to

take over the world with is right wing ideology. Sack him and his corrupt minions including fake news.

[glinda]

23. here here.

[Dappleganger]

17. Fresh 'apologies' only stink more.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

18. get on your fucking knee's...

he brought us the tea party, and helped the tories take over in the UK.

people will die because of the policies he brought to both the USA and the UK

[aquart]

19. WILL die? How many have already died?

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

20. exactly, and not only in the USA and the UK

his media outlets certainly pounded the drumbeat of war. any war, they just like the pretty colored pictures the bombs make when the fall. good theater. evil fucker.

[Kingofalldems]

22. Steve Doocy says stop being mean to Mr. Murdoch