Murdoch's New York Post Publisher Also Has A Hacking Problem

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by Eric Boehlert
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107220011

One week ago, Rupert Murdoch's longtime aide, Les Hinton, was forced to resign as publisher of the Wall Street Journal because of the central role he'd been playing for years in News Corp.'s unraveling phone-hacking scandal. Hinton's resignation, unthinkable just four weeks ago, signaled the severity of News Corp.'s woes in America.

Now another Murdoch publisher, Paul Carlucci, who oversees the New York Post, may be facing renewed questions from prosecutors about his business past and what role he played in a News Corp. computer hacking scandal that unfolded right here in the U.S.

The allegations were part of a larger anti-competitive practices scandal that has already cost Murdoch's company hundreds of millions of dollars in legal setbacks and settlements, and a scandal that highlights what appears to be a culture of corruption inside News Corp.'s American operations. It's a culture that flies in the face of Murdoch's insistence that the hacking at his British tabloid represented an isolated incident.

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But given the new scrutiny of News Corp. and questions that swirl about the history of law-breaking at its media properties, can Murdoch afford to keep Carlucci working for him at the New York Post?

[Taverner]

1. And....nothing is going to happen

This will be big news for a week, Congressmen will fake outrage here, huff and puff there, and then everyone will forget about it.

Murdoch will still run Newscorp. His ginger assassin will be acquitted or whatever they do in the UK when your boss buys your way out. Fox will go back to doing everything the same. Watch - even on DU we will forget about this.

And the system will be rigged like it has been.

All it will take is a missing pretty white girl, or a white girl who kills her baby, or some other story that strikes fear in the heart of white people everywhere.

Bachmann will become President, Obama will do the lecture circuit, and we'll get that war with Iran that the Republicans have been jerking off over.

[Ship of Fools]

2. please don't make me anymore depressed than I am ...

[Taverner]

3. Someone earlier suggest I go out and walk around some trees

There's a redwood tree about 2 blocks from here

I love redwood trees

[Ship of Fools]

4. Love them, too. Glad they're still around (for now) ...

Remember raygun's "...you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all..." quote?

[Snoutport]

5. go read my posts! they will cheer you up! I think James Murdoch is going to jail

[damntexdem]

6. Murdock has a hacking cough.

And it clenches his testicles every time. ;-)