The Case Against Piers Morgan. Wow. I have had a visceral disgust with this douche always. I find his very presence vomitous and anger inspiring. Because I never wanted to know anything about him, I only recently found out he was one of Murdoch's minions, editing The Daily Mirror during times of alleged hacking. How very validated my intuition feels!
Gawker. Excerpts:
As British blogger Guido Fawkes noted today, in 2006 former Daily Mirror reporter James Hipwell told the Guardian unequivocally that hacking went on during his time at the paper—which overlapped entirely with Morgan's tenure as editor. "Many of the Daily Mirror's stories would come from hacking into a celebrity's voicemail," Hipwell told the Guardian
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Hipwell, it should be noted, was fired from the Mirror in 2000 over accusations that he invested in a company whose stock he was promoting in a business column. He was eventually jailed for stock manipulation. Morgan was investing in the same company, but for some reason he didn't get fired.
In January, former member of Parliament Paul Marsden announced that he had been a victim of phone-hacking by a Daily Mirror reporter in 2003—again, during Morgan's tenure—and that he was pursuing a lawsuit against the paper.
Former Daily Mirror reporter Gary Jones was secretly recorded by British police telling private investigator Jonathan Rees—an accused (and acquitted) axe murderer at the heart of the hacking scandal who is accused of everything from voicemail snooping to conducting "burglaries of public figures to steal material for newspapers"—that "some of what he was doing for the Mirror was illegal." Jones was employed by the Mirror as a reporter for the entirety of Morgan's tenure there.
News Corp's James Murdoch under pressure over hacking testimony Yahoo. Excerpts:
News Corp executive James Murdoch was under pressure on Monday over his handling of a phone-hacking scandal that has hit the Murdoch family's media empire and could jeopardize his own position at the company.
British police are considering a request from opposition Labor politician Tom Watson to investigate claims the 38-year-old son of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch gave "mistaken" testimony to a high profile hearing in parliament last week.
Separately Labor lawmaker Chris Bryant has written to News Corp's independent directors calling on them to suspend both James and his 80-year-old father for failing to exercise proper corporate control.
And:
News Corp's British arm News International had maintained until then that previously known about incidents of the illegal practice at its News of the World tabloid was the work of a lone "rogue reporter."
However, two former senior figures at its British newspaper arm on Friday disputed James Murdoch's claim at the committee hearing that he had been unaware in 2008 of an e-mail that suggested such wrongdoing was more widespread.
The email related to a 700,000 pound ($1.1 million) out-of-court settlement paid to the head of English soccer's players union and signed off by James Murdoch in 2008, shortly after he took charge of News Corp's European operations.
Murdoch-detector browser add-ons warn you when you’re reading Murdoch-tainted news BoingBoing. Excerpts:
Two new browser plugins are here to help you with your Murdoch-detecting needs: Murdoch Block is a Chrome extension that warns you when you’re about to visit a news site controlled by the Murdoch empire and gives you the chance to turn away before the phone-hacking, ethics-lacking propaganda meets your eyes; and Murdoch Alert puts a helpful warning bar at the bottom of your browser whenever you land on a Murdoch-controlled news page.
Fox reporter claims network has covered Murdoch scandal ‘very seriously’ Charlie Gasparino, fresh from CNBC, and already on bended knees..
..“Actually, the coverage on Fox and The Wall Street Journal of the story has been embarrassing for journalism,” The Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington pointed out. “Editorials in The Wall Street Journal — forget Fox, nobody really expects Fox to do this seriously…”
“Fox has covered this very seriously, Arianna,” Gasparino objected.
“The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial is whitewashing what is a very serious scandal that we have not seen the end of,” Huffington continued.
“I think we have covered this well. We have straight news reporters that have covered this all day,” Gasparino claimed.
And:
In fact, the Pew Research Center found that Fox News’ coverage of the Murdoch scandal trailed far behind CNN and MSNBC between July 6 and July 15.
Fox News had devoted less than 30 minutes to the story, while CNN and MSNBC each devoted over 140 minutes.
Report: News Corp UK execs threatened British Members of Parliament Americablog. Excerpts:
Lib Dem insiders say NI (News International) officials took their lobbying campaign well beyond acceptable limits and even threatened, last autumn, to persecute the party if Vince Cable, the business secretary, did not advance its case.
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The accounts are only now coming to light, say sources, because the minister involved feared the potential for damage to the party, which was already suffering a dramatic slide in popularity after going into coalition with the Tories. They chime with reports from senior figures in the Labour party who say that Murdoch executives issued threats to Ed Miliband's office after the Labour leader turned on NI when the news broke that murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked into by the News of the World.
The drips continue.
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