Rupert Murdoch Instructs Fox Business Journo On The Questions He Will Answer, And The Questions He Won’t
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Scotland Yard Announces New Inquiry Into Murdoch Spying Scandal And Then Abandons It Only A Few Hours Later
By Darryl Mason
Rupert Murdoch seemed a bit startled when a Fox Business journo started an interview with “The Chairman” by asking a question on the Murdoch Hacking Scandal now erupting in Britain. “The Chairman” doesn’t have to answer questions he doesn’t want to, after all he owns Fox, and his lackeys clearly know they must do as their told :
Varney: The story that’s really buzzing all around the country and certainly here in New York, is that the News of the World, a News Corporation newspaper in Britain used –Murdoch: I’m not talking about that issue at all today. I’m sorry.
Varney: No worries, Mr. Chairman. That’s fine with me.
Murdoch: I’m sorry.
Varney: OK. That’s all right, sir.
The video of the interview is here. Fox Business news tried to edit out this embarrassing chunk of the interview, until a blogger pulled them up on it. It’s like watching Mr Burns and Smithers.
UK Guardian journalist Nick Davies, who broke this story of how Murdoch journalists are claimed by his police sources to have spied on the private phone messages and financial data of thousands of British people, and God knows who else around the world, follows up on news that Scotland Yard will not begin a new investigation into these blatant criminal acts of the kind you’d expect to be committed by cops, or gangsters or intelligence agencies, not a few dozen ‘journalists’. Davies sees a purposeful attempt by Scotland Yard to “muddy the waters” over what happened, and why they did not, and still will not, investigate claims that Murdoch journalists spied on 2000 to 3000 people : The Guardian reported that Scotland Yard had failed to alert all those whose phones were targeted. (They) said that in most of the cases which they had looked at, there was insufficient evidence to be sure that hacking had occurred. And, so in those cases, they did not alert the targets. There is a great deal of the picture that remains hard to see: about the hacking of phones and the material which was gathered by Scotland Yard; about the “blagging” of confidential data, such as bank statements and tax records, and the material which was gathered by the information commissioner. The New York Times dived into the scandal yesterday, running this story on its front page, and clearly enjoying the criminal drama now erupting around Rupert Murdoch, and his British tabloid operation : (click to enlarge) From this New York Times story, Murdoch Papers Said To Pay To Settle Hacking Suits’ : But the controversy stirred by The Guardian could reach into the highest ranks of Mr. Murdoch’s empire. So the New York Times hopes, and prays. If the Murdoch journalists getting access to the transcripts of all that spying shared particularly interesting information, or intelligence, with Scotland Yard, would that explain why Scotland Yard announced a new inquiry into the scandal and then abandoned it only a few hours later? With Britain in an uproar over a report in the newspaper The Guardian that two tabloid newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch have systematically used private investigators to tap the cellphone messages of public figures and obtain other personal details from confidential databases, a senior Scotland Yard officer said Thursday that there would be “no further investigation” of the matter. The officer, Assistant Commissioner John Yates, made the announcement only hours after he was assigned by Sir Paul Stephenson, the head of Scotland Yard, to “establish the facts” behind the disclosures…. Do Murdoch journalists have some particularly damaging information about Scotland Yard, and its detectives? How much more murky can the modern day world of Old Media journalism get? Not surprisingly, Murdoch newspapers across the world have been particularly quiet about this scandal, so far. The main Murdoch news portal in Australia, news.com.au, ran the below story on its front page for only a few hours, before it disappeared into the archive. The fact that the scandal involves the private lives of celebrity sports stars, models and politicians, prime Murdoch journo hunting ground, makes it only more obvious, and hilarious, that they are all but ignoring this huge story. I wonder if Rupert Murdoch sent out one of his memos that reach the editors of every newspaper and online news desk in his empire?
