Media Issues
Why did UK police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”
By Chris Marsden, July 20, 2011
When the former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, north of London, the immediate response of the Hertfordshire police was to issue a public statement declaring his death to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious.”
UK Parliamentary Select Committee continues cover-up of Murdoch scandal
By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden, July 20, 2011
The appearance of Rupert and James Murdoch before the British Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee was a piece of well-choreographed political theatre.
Commercial rivalries underlay conflict with Murdoch’s media empire
By Dave Hyland, July 19, 2011
The explosive divisions that have erupted within ruling circles surrounding the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the events leading to its exposure have from the start been fuelled by economic rivalries.
BBC journalists’ strike hits all UK service’s major news programs
By Robert Stevens, July 18, 2011
On Friday journalists at the BBC struck for 24 hours to protest 387 job losses at the World Service and BBC Monitoring.
Arrest of Rebekah Brooks takes hacking probe one step closer to the Murdochs
By Chris Marsden, July 18, 2011
On Sunday, Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, became the tenth person to be arrested in connection with the News of the World phone hacking and police corruption scandal.
Murdoch scandal spreads
Britain’s police chief resigns over relations with News International
By Chris Marsden, July 18, 2011
Britain’s senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson, was forced to resign following the exposure of corrupt relations between Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and the London Metropolitan Police.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Murdoch’s News International operated a “criminal-media nexus”
By Chris Marsden, July 16, 2011
The resignation of Rebekah Brooks is only the latest indication of an ever-widening crisis facing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, News Corp.
FBI to investigate allegations News Corp. hacked 9/11 victims’ phone records
By Kate Randall, July 15, 2011
The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. tried to obtain phone records of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Murdoch hacking scandal and class “justice”
By Julie Hyland, July 14, 2011
Two weeks into the latest stage of the scandal over phone hacking and other illegal activities by Rupert Murdoch’s News International group in Britain, revelations continue to pour out, each more damaging than the last.
UK hacking scandal yields new reports of criminality by Murdoch press
By Chris Marsden, July 13, 2011
New revelations have emerged that former prime minister and chancellor Gordon Brown was targeted by private investigators working for Rupert Murdoch’s Sun and Sunday Times newspapers.
Murdoch and the rule of the oligarchy
By Chris Marsden, July 11, 2011
The ongoing exposure of systematic hacking of thousands of phones and computers by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World lifts the lid on the rampant criminality of the corporate and political elite.
Former top aide to British prime minister arrested in Murdoch hacking scandal
By Julie Hyland, July 9, 2011
Andy Coulson, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s former director of communications and a former editor of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, was arrested yesterday and questioned over phone hacking and bribes paid to police officers.
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