Scandal Woes Mount for Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Publisher

[spanone]

The revelation yesterday that Britain’s former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, alleged that his personal information was obtained illegally by Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times only intensifies the pressure on Les Hinton, Murdoch’s
longtime confidant and publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

Hinton was already facing scrutiny for the phone hacking scandal because he oversaw Murdoch’s News of The World when the tabloid appears to have engaged in rampant phone hacking. Worse, Hinton oversaw an internal
investigation into the matter that James Murdoch now acknowledges "wrongly maintained that these issues were confined to one reporter."



http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107120015

[fascisthunter]

1. Good.... more please!

[rpannier]

2. The ancient Chinese politician Li Ssu was correct

Death by 1000 cuts is far more devastating than a quick kill

[malaise]

5. And so much fun

:popcorn:

[Kingofalldems]

3. Keep em comin' granny!----Patrick Starr

K and R

[gratuitous]

4. All Murdoch has to do is get one of his lawyers to say it was totally legal

That seems to be the standard nowadays. If your lawyer says it's okay, then okay it is! Doesn't matter what laws you broke, what crimes against humanity you're accused of, if your retained mouthpiece says you didn't break the law, then you're off the hook. I'm surprised Rupert hasn't thought of this himself.

[lpbk2713]

6. I put the WSJ on a level with tabloids ...

... the day I heard they were to become a part of the Murdoch syndicate.
I even subsribed at one time, never again.

[monmouth]

7. Has Roger Ailes piped up with anything worth hearing? I would imagine

his already paranoid state is in full scream/hysteria mode about now. Good, I like the thought of that pig hysterical..