Full Court Press On Murdoch & Fox News? NPR Retracts Story!

LadyJazzer wrote:

Science Chic wrote: Would anyone be surprised if an investigation reveals they've been doing similar things here in the US?

Not in the least...

And isn't it telling that: "Millions of in-house emails reportedly have been destroyed." .... Duh!

I hope they send these slimebags away for a loooooong time.

I say go after the Fox shows too! I just hope no one on Glee does any jail time...

So far all I have heard is speculation which sells ads on the Internet for Huffington Post and creates sponsorship for NPR. What is lacking is hard evidence that Fox or any other part of Murdoch's media empire did anything wrong in the USA. So far all what Sen. Rockefeller has done is created speculation, I'm sure he would like to have a reason to create a fishing expedition and go after Fox. However, if they go after Fox they should also go after the New York Times for leaking classified information in the past.

I hope Fox News doesn't shut down like News Of The World. Who would be left to scream the fake news to my parents?

Nobody has "gone after Fox"... But thanks for playing...

What's happened is that a US Senator has suggested that there be an investigation into NewsCorp to ascertain if laws have been broken. That doesn't sound like "speculation" to me... If nothing is found, then no harm, no foul. In the meantime, NewsCorp, and Murdoch, are up to their eyeballs in it over in the UK...

I would hope they would also investigate other news outlets to make sure no one is breaking these laws.

chickaree wrote: I would hope they would also investigate other news outlets to make sure no one is breaking these laws.

There is probable cause to investigate Murdoch after the revelations in the UK.....what probable cause is there to investigate any other news corp?

archer wrote:

chickaree wrote: I would hope they would also investigate other news outlets to make sure no one is breaking these laws.

There is probable cause to investigate Murdoch after the revelations in the UK.....what probable cause is there to investigate any other news corp?

GE which owns NBC didn't pay taxes last year. Sounds likes a reason to investigate. I know if I didn't pay taxes last year, I would be checked out.

I've never been able to figure out why Righties want to protect tax-cheats... Perhaps you can explain that?

But since legally not paying taxes isn't the issue here...Illegally accessing phone and computer accounts is, I'm not sure I understand this particular version of "They did it too"--since I'm not aware that GE or NBC did anything like NewsCorp did... Perhaps you could enlighten us?

Got to love how the regressives take something that happened across the pond and then attempt to employ the logical fallacy of guilt by association to tarnish others here in America. I keep telling you folks you need to get a new playbook because everyone knows the plays in the one you have.

And isn't it the regressives who have been saying for quite some time we need to be more like England and Europe? This behavior of the English press isn't anything new, there's no such thing as an ethical line in that lot. Come to think of it, the MSM has been patterning themselves after their English counterparts now that you mention it. Abandoning all pretense at neutrality, falsely accusing a sitting president of something based upon some altered documents............fits right in with how the British press corps behaves.