After more “wilful blindness”, it’s time to change corporate law
After another incidence of “wilful blindness” (in the case of Rupert Murdoch and phone hacking) it’s time to change corporate law, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.
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The Murdoch stench lingers around Salmond
The bad smell lingering around Scottish first minister Alex Salmond’s relationship with Rupert Murdoch gets worse and worse, reports Ed Jacobs.
MPs attack Murdochs in damning report into phone-hacking
MPs today said Rupert Murdoch “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company”, accusing him of “wilful blindness”.
Top videos of 2011: #3: Steve Coogan really dislikes the Daily Mail
We continue our countdown of the ten best videos of 2011 with Steve Coogan versus the Daily Mail.
Leveson witnesses tell of the suicides caused by tabloid intrusion and lies
The Leveson Inquiry takes a break today, at the end of a week in which celebrities and ordinary people have testified to the abhorrence of the tabloid press.
Tabloid hypocrisy shocker: “Aren’t those other papers nasty, with all that hacking?”
Alex Hern reports on the remarkable degree to which every tabloid manages to avoid reporting on its own implication in the phone hacking scandal.
Capo di tutti capi plays dumb when quizzed about Murdoch mafia’s “omerta”
The Murdoch empire was compared to the mafia when James Murdoch reappeared before the culture, media and sport select committee today, reports Shamik Das.
Dowler solicitor: News Int acting “like Soviet Union… you think the KGB are following you”
The solicitor of Milly Dowler’s family, Mark Lewis, has accused Rupert Murdoch’s News International of behaving “like the former Soviet Union”, reports Shamik Das.
Coogan: “If the Daily Mail went to the wall tomorrow I’d be delighted”
Steve Coogan savaged the feral, gutter press on Newsnight last night – reserving his greatest scorn for the Daily Mail and the paper’s editor Paul Dacre.
The NUJ is the solution to the sickness at News International
Ruwan Subasinghe is a lawyer at an international trade union federation If bankers and politicians previously headed the public’s vilification rankings, journalists (and their employers) are now right up there thanks to hackgate. Many commentators have highlighted British journalism’s current ‘moraltest