{"id":4845,"date":"2011-07-09T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T22:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2011-07-09T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T22:31:23","slug":"news-warp-rupert-murdochs-crime-drama-plot-thickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4845","title":{"rendered":"News Warp: Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s Crime Drama Plot Thickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The corruption and criminality threatening to sink Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s media empire is growing into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/Police-search-newsroom-of-2nd-British-tabloid-1455841.php\">monstrous story<\/a> throughout the world. One place you won&#8217;t hear of it is on Fox News&#8217; own <em>&#8220;News Watch.&#8221;<\/em> This may be the most shocking media story in a century and the only half hour on Fox News dedicated to reporting about the media completely ignored the international scandal even as new revelations have emerged. In just the past 48 hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Murdoch, Rupert&#8217;s heir-apparent, announced that the News of The World would stop its presses forever (although they may just be moving the operation to the offices of Murdoch&#8217;s other British tabloid, The Sun).<\/li>\n<li>Andy Coulson, the former NotW editor and former press spokesman for conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, was arrested by British police.<\/li>\n<li>The scandal escalated from one of phone hacking to one that alleges paying off police to acquire information for stories.<\/li>\n<li>Rupert Murdoch flew to London to personally take charge of the damage control.<\/li>\n<li>Investigations are underway to determine if company executives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/jul\/08\/phone-hacking-emails-news-international\">unlawfully deleted<\/a> millions of emails related to the controversy in an attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard&#8217;s inquiry.<\/li>\n<li>News Corp stock plummeted 7.6%, losing more than $1.5 billion in market value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these factors were deemed significant enough to warrant a mention on News Watch (which last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4793\">devoted half the show<\/a> to blasting Media Matters). Just as his minions are attempting to subvert justice in the UK, the Murdoch gang is plainly trying to hide the evidence of their guilt by silencing their domestic reporters. They have provided only the most perfunctory coverage of the affair on Fox News, and nothing at all on Fox Nation.<\/p>\n<p>This deliberate effort to cover up the scandal affirms my speculation that the worst is yet to come. Murdoch would not have shuttered a 168 year old newspaper overnight &#8211; one of the largest circulation papers in the UK &#8211; unless there were some dreadful consequences looming. Remember, Murdoch stuck with Glenn Beck for two years as his audience was cratering and advertisers fleeing in droves. He has stuck with the New York Post despite a decade of losses that total more than half a billion dollars. Why would he suddenly turn to mush and jettison a profitable enterprise like NotW without even putting up a fight? There&#8217;s trouble-a-brewin, you can rest assured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corruption and criminality threatening to sink Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s media empire is growing into a monstrous story throughout the world. One place you won&#8217;t hear of it is on Fox News&#8217; own &#8220;News Watch.&#8221; This may be the most shocking media story in a century and the only half hour on Fox News dedicated to [&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],"tags":[33,32,30],"class_list":["post-4845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-news-corp","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1g9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19914,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19914","url_meta":{"origin":4845,"position":0},"title":"Get To Know Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Wants To Buy Time Warner","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/23\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week there was a surprising announcement that international media baron Rupert Murdoch had made a bid to expand his empire even further. 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