Call for News review in Australia after hacking scandal

[Cereal Kyller]

Source: 7News via Yahoo News

SYDNEY (AFP) - The phone hacking scandal rocking Rupert Murdoch's News Corp threatened to spread to Australia Saturday with calls for an official inquiry, which could hurt his play for a major television contract.

Murdoch's global News International empire had its humble beginnings in Australia, and the Australian-born media baron is seeking to expand his already vast local holdings with a bid for the public broadcaster's international arm.

Claims that Murdoch's News of the World, Britain's biggest-selling Sunday paper, hacked into the voicemails of a murdered girl and the families of dead soldiers have already cast a shadow over his bid for British network BSkyB.

And a call from Australia's influential Greens party for an inquiry into local Murdoch firm News Limited could put a similar deal for the Aus$223 million Australia Network, an international television service, into doubt.

Read more: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/9813541/call-for-news-review-in-australia-after-scandal/

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Anything that prevents Murdoch from acquiring more media is good news (pun intended).

[sce56]

1. And how about FOX news? Do you believe they are innocent of any hacking here!

[Cereal Kyller]

2. Totally innocent

Just like Casey Anthony.

[aquart]

3. "Acquiring"? I want him DIVESTED.

If only we had an Attorney General.

[Botany]

4. I might be wrong but I think Murdoch's people tapped ...

..... into Australia's Elle Macpherson phone and such.



And this caused Ms. Macpherson to fire an employee thinking that person was leaking
private information to the press ...... We might be looking at multi million dollar lawsuit
in this case.

[Cereal Kyller]

7. In other words,

Murdoch was responsible for a rise in Australia's unemployement rate! :rofl:

[craigmatic]

5. I hope this is the beginning of his downfall.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Ah I predicted it spread to Australia

I am not going to cry for Rupert, not at all. It would be ironic if he lost all though.

[Cereal Kyller]

8. Because he came from there?

Or did you mean to type "iconic"?
Either way, it works for me! ;-)

[Violet_Crumble]

9. Of course it'd have an impact here...

But the call for an inquiry is a precautionary thing aimed to ensure that none of that hacking shit was happening here with News Limited. In this case, I think an inquiry would be a good idea, just so everybody is sure that the hacking practices hadn't spread...

[salin]

10. the hacking news - when it reached the ick factor got the ball rolling... but the undoing

will be the corruption of the powers that be ala the police and bigger yet - the politicians. I expect the impact in the UK will be big. The question will be how much unraveling will start to appear in Australia and in the US. New fissures appear several times a day now. What appeared to be unthinkable... (per the imperviousness of the power of Murdoch and his media empire).

The crack/sign that things are getting close to NewsCorp and the US will be if and when Hinton gets removed (he played a role in the cover up as top exec at NoTW, lied to parliament (now admitted that the org: re Hinton - per James Murdoch's statements) from running the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones.

We seem to be at a climax (think slow brewing, long simmering story arc with a quick event that shifts all other events) but I think we are a long way to the denouement/resolution. But as the hours tick and parts of the story arcs start appearing beyond the UK... the outcomes look harder and harder to be controlled by Murdoch.

Only crocodile tears from here.