14-07-2011, 07:04 PM
Quote:Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch calls in PR firm Edelman
PR company will report directly to general manager of News International
Sourcewatch on Edelman.
Quote:Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch calls in PR firm Edelman
PR company will report directly to general manager of News International
Quote:Rupert Murdoch has made a "full and humble" apology to the family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler at a private meeting held at a central London hotel.
The global head of News Corporation "held his head in his hands" and repeatedly told the family he was "very, very sorry", according to the Dowlers' lawyer Mark Lewis.
Quote:Murdoch had called the meeting at which Milly Dowler's parents Sally and Bob and her sister Gemma had told Murdoch his newspapers "should lead the way to set the standard of honesty and decency in the field and not what had gone on before".
Murdoch had replied that the News of the World's actions were "not the standard set by his father, a respected journalist, not the standard set by his mother".
Quote:Phone hacking: Met police put pressure on Guardian over coverage
Top officers told the Guardian its stories were exaggerated without revealing they had hired former NoW deputy editor
Scotland Yard's most senior officers tried to convince the Guardian during two private meetings that its coverage of phone hacking was exaggerated and incorrect without revealing they had hired Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World, as an adviser.
The first meeting in December 2009, which included the Metropolitan police commissioner Paul Stephenson, was two months after Wallis was employed by the Yard as a public relations consultant.
Wallis, 60, who was deputy to Andy Coulson, the NoW editor at the time of the phone hacking, was arrested on Thursday as part of Operation Weeting. Coulson has also been arrested and bailed.
Theresa May, the home secretary, has referred Scotland Yard's hiring of Wallis to the judicial inquiry on phone hacking which will be chaired by Lord Justice Leveson.
During the meetings in December 2009 and February 2010, which also involved the assistant commissioner John Yates and the force's director of public affairs, Dick Fedorcio, the senior officers said articles written by Nick Davies about phone hacking were incorrect, inaccurate and wrongly implied the force was "party to a conspiracy".
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, has written to Fedorcio about failing to mention that the Yard was being advised by Coulson's former deputy.
In the letter Rusbridger wrote: "Paul Stephenson and you came in to meet me and Paul Johnson [deputy editor] in my office on 10 December 2009. Among the things we discussed was the commissioner's strong feeling that Nick Davies's coverage of phone hacking was overegged and incorrect.
"In February 2010 you wrote to me complaining that another Nick Davies story 'once again presents an inaccurate position from our perspective and continues to imply this case has not been handled properly and we are party to a conspiracy' ... You suggested a follow-up meeting with Assistant Commissioner John Yates.
"That meeting took place on 19 February. John Yates also tried to persuade us that Nick's doggedness and persistence in pursuing the story was misplaced."
The letter ends with Rusbridger posing five questions to the Met: "Why did you not think it appropriate to tell me at the time of these meetings that you, Paul and John were being advised by Coulson's former deputy?
"What advice did he give you about the coverage of phone hacking?
"Was Wallis consulted in advance of these meetings or subsequently informed of the nature or contents of our discussions?
"Why did you think it was appropriate to hire Wallis, given his closeness to events which the Guardian and other media organisations were reporting at the time?
"What conversations formal or informal did you, Paul or John have with Wallis about the subject of the NoW and phone hacking during the period he was working?"
Fedorcio, who has held his post since 1997, has been invited to testify before MPs on the home affairs committee on Tuesday.
A Metropolitan police spokesman said it could not comment on why it did not mention Wallis's employment in the private meetings at the Guardian. Because of the judicial inquiry, it would not comment on why it was thought appropriate to hire Wallis, nor could it comment on any formal or informal conversations Stephenson or Yates had with the former Murdoch executive while he worked part-time at the Yard.
The spokesman denied that Wallis had been consulted about phone hacking or gave any advice about it, in their first on-the-record denial: "He was not involved in any operational activity and that includes giving any advice on phone hacking."
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Now Les Hinton, known in the industry as "Rupert Murdoch's representative on earth", has resigned.
Hinton and Brooks, a pair of consigliere, gone on the same day!!!!
KAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! :dancingman::kraka:
Quote:Fox And Friends Defends News Corp's Hacking Scandal: We Should Move On'
By Alex Seitz-Wald on Jul 15, 2011 at 11:30 am
Fox News finally addressed their parent company's hacking scandal head on this morning, with Fox and Friends launching a comically sycophantic and pathetically inaccurate defense of News Corp. Host Steve Doocy and guest Robert Dilenschneider, a media consultant, agreed News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has done "all the right things" and argued that the scandal is way overblown. "For some reason, the public, the media, keep going over this, again, and again, and again" the guest said. "It's too much," he added, "We should move on." Doocy agreed, scolding the media for not devoting its time to covering more important issues. (His show later featured a segment on actress Mila Kunis and a performance by second-tier boy band Lifehouse, popular in 2001.)
But their defense of News Corp. really got embarrassing when Dilenschneider and Doocy engaged in some stunning subject/object slight of hand, comparing News Corp. to companies that have been hacked, while failing to note it was News Corp. that did the hacking in this case. "We know it's a hacking scandal, shouldn't we get beyond it and deal with the issue of hacking? We have a serious hacking problem in this country," Dilenschneider reminded us. Listing several companies like CitiGroup that "have been hacked into," Dilenschneider asked, "Are they getting the same kind of attention for hacking that took place less than a year ago that News Corp is getting today?" "Right," Doocy said, before noting the Pentagon was also recently hacked. Watch it:
Prior to this morning, Fox News has done a fairly decent job of covering its parent company's hacking scandal, giving the story just enough coverage to avoid being accused of ignoring it. According to a Media Matters report, while the network mentioned the story far less than CNN or MSNBC, it did cover it 30 times in the past two weeks and has generally disclosed its relation to News Corp. But this seems to be the first time the network has offered a vigorous defense of the company.
"It's really very, very scary, and I think we should be very concerned as a public about our privacy and about people getting access to what we have," Dilenschneider added. Indeed, starting with News Corp.
Magda Hassan Wrote:Murdoch mouth piece tells us to shut up and get used to it and just move on, the mantra of the criminals.