Phone hacking scandal deepens

[Jan Klimkowski]

Newspapers as organs delivering blackmail and leverage on behalf of their Sponsors - keeping the Mechanics, and the independently minded, scared and obedient.

The Murdoch empire bosses are Facilitators.

Now busted.

They'll be tossed out with the garbage by the Sponsors.

As I noted a few pages back, Sen Jay Rockefeller's intervention was a deep political signal.

In a Rolling Stone piece, Tim Dickenson corroborates Cooper's account of a "black-ops" room deep within Fox HQ:
Befitting his siege mentality, Ailes also housed his newsroom in a bunker. Reporters and producers at Fox News work in a vast, windowless expanse below street level, a gloomy space lined with video-editing suites along one wall and an endless cube farm along the other. In a separate facility on the same subterranean floor, Ailes created an in-house research unit known at Fox News as the "brain room" that requires special security clearance to gain access. "The brain room is where Willie Horton comes from," says Cooper, who helped design its specs. "It's where the evil resides."If that sounds paranoid, consider the man Ailes brought in to run the brain room: Scott Ehrlich, a top lieutenant from his political-*consulting firm. Ehrlich referred to by some as "Baby Rush" had taken over the lead on Big Tobacco's campaign to crush health care reform when Ailes signed on with CNBC. According to documents obtained by Rolling Stone, Ehrlich gravitated to the dark side: In a strategy labeled "Underground Attack," he advised the tobacco giants to "hit hard" at key lawmakers "through their soft underbelly" by quietly influencing local media a tactic that would help the firms "stay under the radar of the national news media."

Faux News - Murdoch tried to copyright the tag line "fair and balanced".

"Fair and balanced"?

Naked Propaganda: Don't Believe a Word - is surely more appropriate.