archer wrote: If you think about it....I know, that's hard for conservatives who would rather just be told what to think.....if the nation is evenly divided between righties and lefties....the left have many choices where to go for news where as the right only has FOX, any other station might scare them when they see a different truth than the FOX propaganda. So of course FOX will have better ratings, half the nation is afraid to be exposed to anything that doesn't fit their preconcieved prejudices.
archer wrote: If you think about it....I know, that's hard for conservatives who would rather just be told what to think.....if the nation is evenly divided between righties and lefties....the left have many choices where to go for news where as the right only has FOX, any other station might scare them when they see a different truth than the FOX propaganda. So of course FOX will have better ratings, half the nation is afraid to be exposed to anything that doesn't fit their preconcieved prejudices.
"As details of the scandal surrounding News Corporation, have emerged,
my defense has been consistent: I had no idea what was going on.
I’m sure you are wondering, how could I, Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful men
in the world, have no idea what is going on? The answer is simple: I get my news from my
own newspapers. If you relied on News of the World, The Sun, The New York Post and Fox News for
your information, I can assure you that you wouldn’t have a clue what was going on, either."
-- Rupert Murdoch
He didn't actually say that. I just found this to be really funny. It's from borowitzreport.
Bomp, bomp, bomp... "Another one bites the dust"....
Dow Jones CEO quits, Murdoch apologizes in hacking scandal Brooks resigned earlier; media mogul 'deeply sorry for the serious wrongdoing'
NEW YORK — The chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., a man who once headed the Rupert Murdoch company at the center of the phone-hacking scandal, resigned Friday as Murdoch himself apologized for "serious wrongdoing" in an ad running in the British press this weekend.
Les Hinton submitted a resignation letter to Dow Jones, which publishes the Wall Street Journal, and to News Corp., the Murdoch company that controls Dow Jones.
"I have watched with sorrow from New York as the News of the World story has unfolded," Hinton wrote in a section addressed to Murdoch. "I have seen hundreds of news reports of both actual and alleged misconduct during the time I was executive chairman of News International and responsible for the company. The pain caused to innocent people is unimaginable. That I was ignorant of what apparently happened is irrelevant and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign from News Corp, and apologize to those hurt by the actions of the News of the World."
Hinton ran News International, News Corp.'s British newspaper unit, for 12 years before moving to Dow Jones in 2007.
(Anybody want to bet that the talking heads on FoxNews will quietly continue to say "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...He is the 'Great and Powerful Oz', and all is well..." ????)
LadyJazzer wrote: (Anybody want to bet that the talking heads on FoxNews will quietly continue to say "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...He is the 'Great and Powerful Oz', and all is well..." ????)
ANOTHER TOP COP DROPS Phone-Hacking Scandal Forces Out London's Two Most Senior Police Officers
John Yates, the Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has resigned from his position following criticism of a previous inquiry into phone hacking and claims that he was too close to executives at News International.
The Met said in a statement: "Assistant Commissioner John Yates has this afternoon indicated his intention to resign to the Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority. This has been accepted. AC Yates will make a statement later this afternoon."
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said at City Hall that Yates decided to resign after being told he would be suspended because his conduct was being referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
On the resignation of Yates and also that of Sir Paul Stephenson, who stepped down as Met commissioner on Sunday, Johnson said that "in both cases the right call has been made".
Murdoch aides long tried to blunt scandal over hacking Rupert and James Murdoch scheduled to face British Parliament Tuesday
Evidence indicating that The News of the World paid police for information was not handed over to the authorities for four years. Its parent company paid hefty sums to those who threatened legal action, on condition of silence. The tabloid continued to pay reporters and editors whose knowledge could prove embarrassing even after they were fired or arrested for hacking. A key editor's computer equipment was destroyed, and e-mail evidence was lost. Internal advice to accept responsibility was ignored, former executives said. John Whittingdale, a Conservative member of Parliament who is the chairman of the committee that will question the Murdochs, said they need to come clean on the depth of the misdeeds, who authorized them and who knew what, when.
"Parliament was misled," he said. "It will be a lengthy and detailed discussion."
Even as the company faced a flood of claims over the last several years, News International has acknowledged that it did not take any steps to preserve e-mails that might contain evidence of hacking until late last fall. When The News of the World moved offices late last year, the computer used by Mr. Edmondson was destroyed in what the company describes as a "standard procedure." ["Standard procedure"? Since when has DESTROYING a computer been a "standard procedure"?]
The company asserted in court that a vast amount of its e-mails from 2005 and 2006 — believed to be the height of the hacking activity — had been lost. Company officials blamed the erasures on bungling, not conspiracy.
Anybody wanna bet that someone slipped into his place and administered a "hot dose?" Yeah, like NOBODY would think anything about a known drug-user dying from a drug-overdose...would they...? How conveeeeeenient.
