Phone hacking scandal deepens

[Jan Klimkowski]

Two UK Murdoch journalists in apparent suicide bids

By Georgina Prodhan | Reuters 11 hrs ago

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LONDON (Reuters) - Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunctNews of the World.

Three sources close to the company told Reuters on Tuesday the two journalists at the Sun daily appeared to have tried to take their own lives. Investigations sparked by a phone-hacking scandal continue to expose dubious practices by present and past employees.
Eleven current and former staff of the Sun, Britain's best-selling daily tabloid, have been arrested this year on suspicion of bribing police or civil servants for tip-offs.

Their arrests have come as a result of information provided to the police by the Management and Standards Committee (MSC), a body set up by parent company News Corp to facilitate police investigations and liaise with the courts.
The work of the MSC, which was set up to be independent of the conglomerate's British newspaper arm News International, has caused bitterness among staff, many of whom feel betrayed by an employer they have loyally served.
"People think that they've been thrown under a bus," one News International employee told Reuters. "They're beyond angry - there's an utter sense of betrayal, not just with the organisation but with a general lynch-mob hysteria."

Magda - thanks for posting this.

I can only read it as one of two things.

It is either a piece of diversionary spin, along the lines of Rebekah Brooks and PM Cameron riding the retired police horse or Trevor Kavanagh's bleating nonsense about Murdoch hacks being grassed up for buying a drink for a copper, which was comprehensively demolished by top cop Sue Akers' testimony revealing systematic corruption using "tradecraft" techniques to hide identities.

OR

It is further proof that Murdoch hacks have no moral integrity. If a Murodch hack feels he's being hung out to dry by Murdoch management, then he should blow the whistle and expose the corrupt practices.

But then very few Murdoch hacks deserve an NUJ card.