James Murdoch 'could face prosecution' over his role in phone hacking scandal - Telegraph.co.uk Full Story »
Posted by Francis Lilly - via Rachel Fus (t), Malorie Jae Lucich (t), Jeremy Caplan (t), miker1717 (t)
Average. Rehashes much. New insights are left up to "quoted" rather than unnamed sources. Informative to me because I had not yet seen the prosecutorial basis (RIPA Act-Sect. 79) reported before. Most interesting to me was the Quote by Paul Farhi: “The fact he shut down a newspaper reflects how seriously the scandal is affecting a whole empire.” I agree with the statement, however it would be interesting to me if a journalist would investigate that shutdown in depth. It happened SO rapidly that I'm not sure it occurred,wholely for reasons generally stated as above or because of the pending takeover. See my opinion in the "comments".
Being basically cynical re: media and big business, and observing (without surprise whatsoever) what this organization has been doing (believing the culture is top-down) I wonder the following about the RAPID shutdown of the key tentacle News of the World: Did they retain enough people to fire up enough shredders to eliminate the evidence of years of such activity? I recall that when Enron broke into the news, nearly all the Republican leaning lawyers in Washington migrated to Texas ... More »
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