Murdoch admits to phone-hacking ‘cover-up’Now what does that sound like to you? To me, it sounds like he engineered a cover-up of reporters' hacking into someone's personal cell phone.
But let's look at what Murdoch actually said:
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch testified Thursday to the U.K. committee on media ethics that there was indeed a phone-hacking "cover-up" at News International—led by "one or two very strong characters"—and that he had "failed" to uncover it.
"Someone took charge of a cover-up, which we were victim to and I regret," Murdoch told the Leveson Inquiry in London on his second straight day of testimony. "I also have to say that I failed ... and I am very sorry for it."
Murdoch, though, insisted the cover-up was not engineered by the company's top executives. "There was no attempt, by me or several levels below me, to cover it up," Murdoch said. "We set up inquiry after inquiry, we employed legal firm after legal firm. Perhaps we relied too much on the conclusions of the police."This is why the media has lost credibility.
Murdoch admits that someone in one of his many organizations did participate in a cover-up. He himself did not.
Yet that is exactly what this writer is trying to make you think.
Here is a more thorough rundown of the choice the NYT makes with regard to what is "news" and what is "not news," just as Stableford chooses a completely false and misleading headline.
Tom McGuire is a blogger, not paid by Yahoo, but he got the real story right.
I used to scoff at self publishing.
Obviously now it's much more likely the truth comes through those sources rather than the huge conglomerates who pay people to write stories, headlines and essentially decide what's news.
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