He spoke to Andrew Neil as former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former NI legal manager Tom Crone were questioned
about phone hacking scandal in Parliament.
Not exact matches
That was Murdoch, age 80, before a U.K. House of Commons committee in July, being grilled alongside his son James
about what they knew
about News Corp.'s
phone -
hacking scandal.
A senior US senator has expressed concerns
about phone -
hacking, in a further sign that Rupert Murdoch is struggling to contain the contagion of
scandal.
But it did not have the same impact on British public life that the
phone -
hacking scandal is having, and will have, on the country in which we all live - and read
about - every day.
At its meeting today (14) the Public and Commercial Services union's national executive committee agreed the following statement
about the ongoing
phone hacking scandal engulfing News International:
The
phone -
hacking scandal has shown how complacent we are
about corruption.
Questions were also raised that summer when a
scandal broke
about phone hacking.
Last year the emerging
phone -
hacking scandal was simply too big to be contained as one entry in this chart, but this time around we've decided it can just
about be crammed into a single judicial inquiry - sized box.
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The effect of the
phone hacking scandal originating with the News of the World also raised wider questions
about the ethics employed by companies under Murdoch's ownership, as well as the effects the
scandal will have on the ethics employed specifically by print journalists and to some extent the wider world of journalism.
Funnily enough I went recently to the screening of the new film
about Julian Assange, the Fifth Estate, and I was talking afterwards to Alan Rusbridger, and I said to him, and he didn't disagree, in fact he agreed, I said, «the Guardian gets the credit for basically exposing the
phone hacking scandal, but if we hadn't picked it up, nothing would've happened».
We get an incredibly high profile not just on
phone hacking, we've done the BBC as well, I've got the chairman of the trust and the director general coming in and that's going to be a huge hearing as well... Because we have this power of summons, if there is a
scandal, the great thing
about a committee is that they can say «right I want every person who is involved in this in public, in front of this committee, answering why this has happened and what we're going to do
about it».
The culture and home affairs select committees between them took more than eight hours of evidence
about the
phone -
hacking scandal.
The comments come amid continued questions
about Mr Cameron's judgement, following reports that he hired Mr Coulson despite warnings
about the
phone -
hacking scandal.
- Cameron and Brooks DID have conversations
about the
phone -
hacking scandal before she quit the job - but these were limited in scope, she claims
The development significantly worsens the
phone -
hacking crisis and even raises questions
about whether David Cameron can survive the
scandal.
The
phone -
hacking scandal first broke in 2004, where the original police investigation brought
about the conviction of the paper's royal editor, Clive Goodman, and private detective Glenn Mulcaire for intercepting the voicemails of members of the royal family.
This was two days before Brooks, along with Rupert and James Murdoch, was due to appear before the Commons culture, media and sport select committee to be quizzed
about the
phone -
hacking scandal and governance at the company.
William Hague, the foreign secretary, was also asked
about the
phone -
hacking trial on Sunday, telling the same programme that the exposure of the
scandal had led to a «greater distance now between politicians and the press».
Someone suggested the other day that there will have to be a film
about the
phone -
hacking scandal.
On Tuesday, the Commons Culture Committee invited Ms Brooks and the Murdochs to give evidence
about the
phone -
hacking scandal at the House of Commons.
He is also a regular public speaker, has given corporate presentations
about hacking scandals and is the co-creator of The Secret Life of Your Mobile
Phone.