Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking humble pie

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/19/rupert-murdoch-phone-hacking-pie
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Rupert Murdoch defiantly insisted on Tuesday he was not responsible for what he called "sickening and horrible invasions" of privacy committed by his company, claiming he had been betrayed by disgraceful unidentified colleagues, and had known nothing of the cover-up of phone hacking.

During a three-hour grilling at the culture select committee, disrupted by a protester throwing a plate of shaving foam, the once all-powerful News Corp chairman and chief executive told MPs: "I am not responsible."

In a halting performance, at times pausing, mumbling and mishearing, Murdoch said those culpable were "the people I hired and trusted, and perhaps then people who they hired and trusted". But he denied the accusation he had been "willfully blind" about the scandal.

But in separate testimony to the home affairs select committee, Lord Macdonald, the former head of the DPP, now on contract with News International, revealed it had taken him three to five minutes to examine documents kept by the company's solicitors showing widespread criminality at the company.

[Warpy]

1. What I got from watching clips with the sound off

is that he considers himself very much the head of the company but has been pushing things off on his son and can't believe he's in the position of having anything about his company questioned by a gaggle of mere politicians.

If he's not toast after this, he certainly should be.

[icnorth]

2. "...betrayed by disgraceful unidentified colleagues..."???

Speaks loudly of your piss poor corporate hiring practices doesn't it Rupert...you miserly twisted spawn of a motherless pig.