Murky Murdoch: The Ethics of Influence

"New World" British tabloid Murdoch (now) has made headlines for some time for hacking into voicemail accounts on a number of celebrities. In fact, history is now dwell on at least since 2007. He did this last week that the actual extent of the scandal had become over the years: voice mail accounts, cell phones, bank accounts and legal records of individuals 4000, 5000 and landlines 4000 mobile numbers can potentially be hacked not only now but also documents such as Murdoch's The Sun or The Times.One of the things that gave spice further investigation was that among the targets were many senior British politicians and - oh what a sacrilege! - The Royal Family. What really tipped the debate is that now allegedly hacked the accounts of telephone voice mail / cell of abducted children in British Iraq veterans or 7 / 7 victims. In the case of Holly Hunter, a young girl who was reported missing and ultimately proved to be assassinated, now not only hacked in his mailbox.They also deleted the messages, which gave parents the impression that it could possibly be alive - while keeping "investigators" knew it would be a false hope. At this stage the allegations NewsCorp hacked phones 9-11 victims are discussed in the media - that moves this scandal to a new level beyond the UK. First, it is interesting to see how the "old" history of media power in the government plays in this particular case.Tony Blair, first to David Cameron, on the other - the complexity of relationships and the dependence of the political leaders of the empire Murdoch News came to the fore once again. If Cameron, the fact he used then the already contaminated NoW Executive Andy Coulson as his communications officer plunged his government into a crisis over the allegations. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown seemed to have stayed a little cleaner here - one wonders if this is one reason why the now released health records of his son and the infant.No wonder then that given the harsh repression by the British government has been somewhat difficult to assemble. It did not help that Scotland Yard, too, had ties obviously very pleasing to the Murdoch empire and more recently was the head hacker'of "NewsCorp on their own payroll. The resignation of two senior officials that weekend is just the most obvious case.

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For the press to undermine their investigation. (As noted, if they actually make these bribes, employees Murdoch violated U.S. law.)

Today, the new York Times also reported that investigators phones over Scotland Yard "was hacked during the initial police investigation in 2006, raising questions about whether the police have limited the scope of their investigation now imperfectly known, for fear that news of the world could begin to spread their dirty laundry.The New York Times, the secrets of the investigators actually do in the media:

The lead police investigator on the case of phone-hacking, Andy Hayman, left the Metropolitan Police in December 2007 after questions were raised in the media news of business expenses that he had filed and the nature of his relationship with a woman who worked for the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

At the time, Channel 4 News [not owned by Murdoch] reported details of 400 text messages and phone calls that Mr. Hayman had sent to her.

John Yates, deputy commissioner who became a lightning rod for handling of the case the police phone-hacking, would have used frequent flyer miles earned in the line of duty pay for flights for his family.

Through it all, News Corporation was preparing to take over British Sky Broadcasting Group, also known as BSkyB. News Corp. currently owns more than a third of the company.

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