The End Of Fox News?

Well, well, well, it seems that News International, the parent company of Fox News, owned by Rupert Murdoch, is caught up in a huge scandal thanks to their British tabloid, News of The World. Basically they've been running things like a 'criminal enterprise' (organised crime). Hacking into the voice mails of celebrities, politicians and victims of crime and terrorism. It also appears that they bribed police officials and totally corrupted Scotland Yard. Top officials at News International are being arrested and/or resigning, and a New York police officer said that they tried to bribe him to hack into the phones of 911 victims. How will this affect Fox News? Who knows? But it sure will be good to see ol Rupert in prison stripes.

For a good roundup:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/07/17/hacking-is-the-new-terrorism/

Some stories and excerpts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-met-polic...

Scotland Yard's most senior officers tried to convince the Guardianduring two private meetings that its coverage of phone hacking was exaggerated and incorrect without revealing they had hired Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World, as an adviser.

The first meeting in December 2009, which included the Metropolitanpolice commissioner Paul Stephenson, was two months after Wallis was employed by the Yard as a public relations consultant.

Wallis, 60, who was deputy to Andy Coulson, the NoW editor at the time of the phone hacking, was arrested on Thursday as part of Operation Weeting. Coulson has also been arrested and bailed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/world/europe/17police.html?_r=1&a...

It’s embarrassing, and it’s tragic,” said a retired Scotland Yard veteran. “This has badly damaged the reputation of a really good investigative organization. And there is a major crisis now in the leadership of the Yard.”

The testimony and evidence that emerged last week, as well as interviews with current and former officials, indicate that the police agency and News International, the British subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and the publisher of The News of the World, became so intertwined that they wound up sharing the goal of containing the investigation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/17/rebekah-brooks-arrested...

Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were bribed to leak sensitive information.

The Metropolitan police said a 43-year-old woman was arrested at noon on Sunday, by appointment at a London police station.

Brooks, 43, resigned on Friday as News International's chief executive. She is a former News of the World editor and was close to Rupert Murdoch and the prime minister, David Cameron

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on July 19, 2011 at 7:39pm

Rupert Murdoch: "This is the most humble day of my life."

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on July 23, 2011 at 1:34pm

If the New York Post actually covered the News Corp. scandal... a slideshow:

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on October 21, 2011 at 3:27pm

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/rupert_murdoch_faces_angry_invester...

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on October 21, 2011 at 4:29pm

Slightly off-topic

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/21/1028804/-Will-you-remember...

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on November 4, 2011 at 6:10pm

"Police investigating events at the News of the World tabloid after a phone hacking scandal said they had arrested a 48-year-old in connection with payments made to police. A spokesman for News Corp's British newspaper arm News International said an employee had been arrested.

Two company sources identified the man as senior Sun reporter Jamie Pyatt, a journalist who covered the 2002 kidnap and murder of British schoolgirl Milly Dowler, a case which played a key part in the hacking scandal this year."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/04/us-newscorp-hacking-idUST...

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on February 7, 2012 at 10:05am

The FBI is conducting an investigation into possible criminal violations by Murdoch employees of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a law intended to curb payment of bribes by U.S. companies to foreign officials, a U.S. law enforcement official said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/07/us-usa-murdoch-investigat...

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on February 7, 2012 at 11:34am

http://dropfox.com/

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on February 11, 2012 at 6:13pm

Rupert Murdoch is flying to London after five of tabloid's most senior staff are arrested in ongoing inquiry into alleged bribery

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/11/sun-journalists-arrested

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Permalink Reply by can i change this later? on February 29, 2012 at 3:16pm

The future of James Murdoch as News Corp. CEO is up in the air. His resignation from News International raises serious questions about whether James will succeed his father.