{"id":1328,"date":"2009-07-08T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2013-03-25T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T21:08:24","slug":"rupert-murdoch-running-criminal-news-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch Running Criminal News Enterprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has a story that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2009\/jul\/08\/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking\" target=\"_blank\">simply must be read<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than \u00c2\u00a31m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists&#8217; repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists using private investigators who illegally hacked into the mobile phone messages of numerous public figures and to gain unlawful access to confidential personal data including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills. Cabinet ministers, MPs, actors and sports stars were all targets of the private investigators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">Today, the Guardian reveals details of the suppressed evidence which may open the door to hundreds more legal actions by victims of News Group, the Murdoch company that publishes the News of the World and the Sun, as well as provoking police inquiries into reporters who were involved and the senior executives responsible for them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the story just gets more lurid. This is a shocking look into the way that Murdoch and his accomplices operate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 7\/9\/09]<\/strong> Rupert Murdoch appeared on his own Fox Business Network today where Stuart Varney, who is notorious for aggressively challenging (i.e. interrupting) liberals, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/video\/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&#038;streamingFormat=FLASH&#038;referralObject=6697582&#038;referralPlaylistId=8e68cac0753d4e8bd71174d41c674e48f15e1331\" target=\"_blank\">attempted to ask him a question<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Varney:<\/strong><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"> The story that is really buzzing all around the country, and certainly right here in New York, is that the News of the World, a News Corporation newspaper in Britain&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Murdoch:<\/strong><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"> No, I&#8217;m not talking about that issue at all today.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Varney:<\/strong><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\"> OK. No worries, Mr. Chairman. That&#8217;s fine with me.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s fine with you? Way to suck up to your boss, Stuart.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_0nN_snrOtk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has a story that simply must be read: Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than \u00c2\u00a31m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists&#8217; repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories. The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[33,32,30,600],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-scandalous","tag-fox-news","tag-news-corp","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-stuart-varney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-lq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1608,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1608","url_meta":{"origin":1328,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Caught In Massive Nielsen Ratings Fraud","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/1\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Update 4\/2\/2010: A major development occurred overnight. 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