World-News

By Mike Whitney

The firestorm in the UK is not really about phone hacking at all. It's about Corporate fiefdoms and unelected oligarchs who control the flow of information and use that power to their own advantage.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28609.htm



Phone Hacking Crisis Shows News Corp Is No Ordinary News Company

By Jay Rosen

Rupert Murdoch s news organisations are not in the news business. What they crave is influence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28634.htm



Its Do or Die-time for Rupert Murdoch

By Mike Whitney

'Rupert Murdoch has been operating what amounts to a private intelligence service.'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28625.htm



10 Questions The MPs Will Not Ask Murdoch

By Robin Beste

What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to - ordering the country's armed forces to war?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28624.htm



Amid the Murdoch Scandal, There s an Acrid Smell of Business as Usual

By John Pilger

Long before it was possible to hack phones, Murdoch was waging a war on journalism, truth, humanity, and succeeded because he knew how to exploit a system that welcomed his devotion to the 'free market'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28651.htm

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Fox News is ignoring Murdoch media scandal
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10447/

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Journalist: If 9/11 victims hacked, 'Fox News is finished'

The Raw Story

07/18/11

In a recent interview with Russia Today, Afshin Rattansi, a Middle Eastern affairs journalist who s appeared on the BBC, CNN and Bloomberg, said that he believes 'Fox News is finished' if U.S. authorities can prove that News Corporation employees attempted to hack into the voicemails of terror attack victims killed on Sept. 11, 2001. 'The Democrats have nothing much to do, but they all hate one influential cable channel: Fox News,' he said. 'I?m hearing, if the 9/11 victims have been hacked by subsidiaries of News Corp., then Fox News is finished'...

http://tinyurl.com/3gfqco9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Rupert Murdoch s War on Journalism
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/spin/outfoxed-rupert-murdochs-war-on-journalism.html

Key phone hacking witness dead
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/murdoch-and-fox-news/key-phone-hacking-witness-dead.html

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British Panel Says Murdochs Are Blocking Inquiries

Alan Cowell, The New York Times: 'A parliamentary panel investigating Britain s spreading phone hacking scandal accused the Murdoch empire on Wednesday of 'deliberate attempts' to thwart its investigations. The House of Commons home affairs select committee was one of two panels that questioned some of the main players in the scandal on Tuesday, interviewing senior police officers and releasing a scathing report on Wednesday that pointed to 'a catalog of failures' in handling the hacking investigations'.

http://www.truth-out.org/british-panel-says-murdochs-are-blocking-inquiries/1311184211



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