News Corp. Admits Phone Hacking Cover-Up; Pays Up

Well, it looks like those "fair and balanced" owners finally admitted their slime and got whacked for it:

News Corp. Admitted Phone Hacking Cover-Up

LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has acknowledged to victims that executives covered up the scale of illegal activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators, victims' lawyers said on Thursday.

In a statement that could further damage the company's reputation, lawyers for victims who have reached settlements said the agreements were based on News Group Newspapers acknowledging senior executives tried to hide evidence.

"News Group has agreed to compensation being assessed on the basis that senior employees and directors of NGN knew about the wrongdoing and sought to conceal it by deliberately deceiving investigators and destroying evidence," the statement said.

The court was told that 19 of the first 26 cases have entered into formal settlement agreements.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/ja ... intcmp=239

Phone hacking settlements: full list of who got what:
Ashley Cole, Jude Law and Sadie Frost among those to receive a declared total of £645,000 from the News of the World publisher

Eighteen phone-hacking settlements were announced at the high court on Thursday morning. A list of who settled and what damages they received follows:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/ja ... intcmp=239

Fox "fair & balanced" News may have the same corporate overlords as the late, lamented, News Of The World, but they have very different political slants. News Of The World was central/lefty whearas Fox News is central righty.

Murdoch was motivated to create the American company because he saw an opportunity to profit rather than being a hard core conservative. His group of papers is politically all over the place.

CNN's Piers Morgan testifies in News Corp. phone hacking inquiry...

As more than a dozen journalists have been arrested in the investigation into Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and their alleged phone hacking, CNN's Piers Morgan was called on to testify via video link from the U.S. Tuesday (Dec. 20).

The AP reports that the main topic of testimony was about comments Morgan made in a 2006 news article he wrote for the Daily Mail, in which Morgan said he was played a phone message left by Paul McCartney for then-wife Heather Mills.

Before he became a U.S. personality, Morgan ran two British tabloids, including Murdoch's News of the World and then its rival, the Daily Mirror. The fact that the inquiry focused on Morgan's time at the Daily Mirror perhaps indicates that the hacking was not confined to journalists working for News Corp.

http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/12/p ... quiry.html

The whole of the media is as corrupt as our government.

Oh no, CNN has hired a phone hacker!

FredHayek wrote: Fox "fair & balanced" News may have the same corporate overlords as the late, lamented, News Of The World, but they have very different political slants. News Of The World was central/lefty whearas Fox News is central righty.

Murdoch was motivated to create the American company because he saw an opportunity to profit rather than being a hard core conservative. His group of papers is politically all over the place.

Doesn't much matter what their "slant" was does it? Murdoch apparently is incapable of running something without fraud, cheating, coverup and lies... Doesn't much matter if it's in the U.K. or at FauxNews....