UK Parliamentary Select Committee continues cover-up of Murdoch scandal

[Karmadillo]

http://www.wsws.org/index.shtml

UK Parliamentary Select Committee continues cover-up of Murdoch scandal

By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden
20 July 2011

The appearance of Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corporation, and his son James Murdoch, its deputy chief operating officer, before the British Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee was a piece of well-choreographed political theatre.

As with Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, News Corp’s UK arm, who was questioned afterwards, the Murdochs knew beforehand that there was no danger of them being asked probing questions, let alone suffering any legal consequences from their testimony.

Far from the much vaunted reassertion of the authority of Parliament and the bringing of Murdoch to account, the event took on the character of a PR exercise for News Corp.

One would never have known by the committee’s deference that the three News Corp luminaries were appearing to answer questions relating not only to the News of the World’s phone hacking, but to bribery, corruption and blackmail of police officers, public officials and leading politicians by Murdoch’s media empire.

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[tsuki]

1. Did they watch the same hearing that I did?

[dipsydoodle]

2. Good of that that strange outfit to broadcast their own ignorance

From your own link :

Why did UK police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”

When the former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, north of London, the immediate response of the Hertfordshire police was to issue a public statement declaring his death to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious.”

The statement is at the very least extraordinary, ?

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/hoar-j20.shtml

That's the stock manner in which any such deaths would be reported in the UK. If they found a pensioner dead in their own they'd use identical wording.