FOX Finally "Touches it"! (Their Owner's Scandal)

[Bumblebee]

Fox News, owned by a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corps, has been turning its attention to the hacking scandal.

On the Fox and Friends show, Fox journalist Steve Doocy wondered just what the fuss was all about: "The company has come forward and said: 'look, this happened a long time ago, at a tabloid, in London, somebody did something really bad,' and the company reacted. They closed that newspaper, all the people got fired, even though 99 percent of them had nothing to do with it."

Doocy's guest, public relations consultant Robert Dilenschneider, was in agreement:
"If I am not mistaken, Murdoch, who owns it, has apologised but for some reason, the public, the media keeps on going over this, again and again. It's a little bit too much."

"The bigger issue is hacking and how we as a public are going to protect outselves," said Dilenschneider, who earlier listed a number of US companies which had recently become the targets of hacking.

Doocy added later: "One of the things about the media, you look at some sites and you would think that martians had landed in New Jersey - again"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-live-coverage

[louis-t]

1. OK, so when I rob a bank, if I just 'apologise'

everything will be fine? No harm, no foul. Nothing to see here. Move along. Assholes.

[spanone]

2. so if crimes are committed - 'a long time ago' - it's okay? i don't think so, boys

[malaise]

4. Meanwhile Doocy is no doubt brushing up the resume

They are scared shitless. :evilgrin:

[Bumblebee]

9. Strange to see the word "journalist" next to Doocy, even if it's "Fox journalist"...

[jberryhill]

16. Unless done by an ex-radical when Obama was eight years old

In that case, it is worth covering for an entire year.

[reformist2]

3. LOL - they would have been better off ignoring it.

[Blue Owl]

5. I'll be right back -- gotta go take a Doocy

:hurts:

[eppur_se_muova]

6. .

[Kingofalldems]

7. They talk as if they are speaking to children-

'somebody did something really bad' Wow.

[JuniperLea]

8. Nothing to see here, move along!

Same old ploy... I doubt it's going to work this time.

[drm604]

10. Could they be any more predictable?

This is exactly what I would expect from Fox. Dismiss and belittle the whole issue.

What? Bribed police? Oh, that was years ago.

Interfered with the police investigation into the murder of a child? Gave the parents false hope? Hell, who hasn't done that? What's the big deal?

Mountain... molehill.. etc.

What total scum they are.

[salin]

11. they have been arrogant and complacent for so long...

think of the "we create reality" bushies. Their owners are just starting to behave a little more humbly - in recognition that at least one Murdoch could be facing very serious criminal charges (James)... meanwhile at Faux - its downplay, sneer, mock and pretend everything is all okay because we say so and dammit people believe whatever we say.

[Snoutport]

12. so, there we have murdoch's north american spin on the subject

[Uncle Joe]

13. Exactly, they're televised sock-puppets for Murdoch.

[Rex]

14. THIS is exactly how they felt when Dick Cheney illegally wiretapped

American phones to spy on mom and dad. SHOWS their apparent lack of morality or ethics on the topic. I hope everyone at Fox gets a pink slip soon! You asshats all deserve to be poor like your master is soon to be!

CRY LAWSUITS AND LET THE LAWYERS LOOSE!

[AndyTiedye]

15. More Like Pod People than Martians, Actually

[tosh]

17. ...

:rofl: