Leading article: A growing stench of lies and cover-up

[Snoutport]

Source: Independent U.K.

Rupert Murdoch has closed down the News of the World, the newspaper at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal. But the media tycoon has not managed to close down the story. Yesterday the brutal spotlight fell on the behaviour of News International, the UK subsidiary of Mr Murdoch's global media empire.


Two years later, when fresh allegations surfaced that hacking at the paper was much more widespread than this, News International held an internal inquiry and this, we were informed, discovered no evidence of wider wrongdoing. Several senior executives of News International – including the former executive chairman, Les Hinton, and the News of the World editor, Colin Myler – have also appeared before Parliamentary committees over the years to stress that phone hacking was the work of a single journalist.

But yesterday the existence was reported of an internal News International dossier, compiled in 2007, indicating that hacking was "more widespread than previously admitted" at the News of the World. In other words, this dossier suggests that senior News International executives may have knowingly misled the public and Parliament when they claimed that phone hacking was a strictly isolated phenomenon. The dossier also apparently indicates that Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor who went on to become the Prime Minister's communications chief, may have authorised the payment of bribes to the police.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-growing-stench-of-lies-and-coverup-2311669.html

[TxVietVet]

1. Rupert, pack you crap up you're so out of here!

This is like good whiskey. It's getting better and better everyday. As the story and the investigations expose these conservanazi crooks, I hope it takes down all of Murdoch's media empire.

[Snoutport]

6. The sweet thing is the news breaks here in the evening :0) whole new batch of stories

coming soon!

[Octafish]

2. Bribing the police?

Incredible! That could never happen in the USA.

:sarcasm:

[yellowcanine]

3. Cameron said in his press conference on Friday 'I had no specific information'

Thereby raising the question: What kind of information did he have?

What exactly does the phrase "no specific information" mean anyway? It is a weasel phrase designed to escape accountability. In other words, unless I had all the specifics, chapter and verse, I cannot be questioned. A leader has to ask questions to get the "specific information" before he acts.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Fox news should be investigated thoroughly

[gratuitous]

5. Thank goodness we don't wallow in the past here in the USA

Let other countries spend all their time lookin' backwards to the past. Here in the USA, we're all about lookin' forward to the future! Besides, have we heard the first peep of protest from those killed in the 9/11 attacks about the hacking of their phones? If they haven't said anything about it, why should we get all exercised about it? Arrest my case!