Rupert Murdoch's car mobbed ahead of UK hearing

[Seedersandleechers]

Source: Kansas City Star

Rupert Murdoch's car was mobbed by photographers Tuesday as he arrived for a grilling from U.K. lawmakers about the phone hacking scandal that has swept from his media empire through the London police and even to the prime minister's office.

Murdoch, his son James and the media mogul's former U.K. newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks were all to be questioned at the hotly anticipated hearing. But the elder Murdoch's Range Rover was surrounded as he arrived at the Houses of Parliament three hours early, and it quickly drove off.

Politicians will be seeking more details about the scale of criminality at Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, while the Murdochs will try to avoid incriminating themselves or doing more harm to their business without misleading Parliament, which is a crime.

Lawmakers are also holding a separate hearing to question London police about reports that officers took bribes from journalists to provide inside information for tabloid scoops and to ask why the force decided to shut down an earlier phone hacking probe after charging only two people.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/07/19/3022268/rupert-murdoch-car-mobbed-ahead.html

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And let the show begin

[barbtries]

1. fantasy headline:

murdochs tell the truth in hearing.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Good headline for the Wall Street Journal -nt

:hi:

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Misleading headline

To me, the word 'mobbed' - without qualification - conjured an image of angry people surrounding his vehicle. I'm glad to see it was merely photographers, as I want proceedings against ol' Ruprecht to continue without a hitch. At the very least, an angry mob attacking an old man would generate sympathy that he definitely doesn't deserve. If he were to be injured in such a mob action, his martyrdom would be epic. I don't want that. I want this horrible old bastid to observe the complete & utter unraveling of his empire before he dies.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Yeah, those photographers were doing what Murdoch and others tell them to

At least one would have been from a News International paper, and employed by Murdoch.

[go west young man]

7. It's all a surreal metaphor these days.

The news is the news. They literally are mobbing themselves.
The real shame of it is that politicians/the media/ the police are
the real bad guys in the world these days. It's quite similar to
"V For Vendetta" though not quite as bad yet. If they give Murdoch
a pass then we can expect "V" to become much more of a reality in
the future.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "The proles are getting restless. Sneer." - RepubliCons, Inc. International, Unltd. (R)

[blueclown]

5. Hey Rupert, just be lucky you are still alive.

Unlike your former employee that just died under "unknown circumstances".

[Matariki]

8. He needs to be mobbed by more than just photographers.