Met probes claims that Sun paid some public officials more than £10k a year Source familiar with News Corp internal inquiry says it has found ‘serious suspected criminality over a sustained period’ Lisa O’Carroll, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 15 February 2012 The Scotland Yard investigation into alleged illegal payments by Sun journalists to police and other public … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Murdoch
Disappearing readers.
When the News of the World was closed by Rupert Murdoch as a result of the Hackgate scandal, most of its readers simply gave up reading a Sunday newspaper altogether: News of the World readers ‘vanish’ as they stop reading newspapers The latest newspaper readership figures suggest that a huge number of people have stopped … Continue reading
Al Jazeera scores another victory in the information war (from Coffee House, The Spectator Blog)
Al Jazeera scores another victory in the information war Fraser Nelson Now that Gaddafi has been killed, which television station will the world turn to? I suspect that, right now, Al Jazeera will be on in No.10 and the White House, and indeed television sets across Asia and India. At a time when the BBC … Continue reading
Britain’s “Watergate moment.”
For those of you studying journalism and for those of us who are concerned by corruption in government, media and business, the phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World is a story you really ought to know about. If you missed it, then The Guardian’s wallchart is a useful visual which maps out … Continue reading