On Tuesday, the Culture,
Media and Sports Parliamentary Committee produced a damning report regarding the
phone hacking scandal, which lead to the closure of The News of the World.
Unfortunately, they incorporated the statement that Murdoch was not a ‘fit and proper’ person
to run a major international communications company, thereby splitting the
committee along party lines and diverting attention from their main
findings. The ‘fit and proper’
designation is the remit of Ofcom, ladies and gentlemen, and should have been
left to them, rather than being used to settle personal vendettas.
The result of
all this? News Corporation’s board has
given Murdoch their full backing, Ofcom says it will take its own time to decide
the ‘fit and proper’ question and The Sun, Murdoch’s flagship paper in the UK,
demonstating that it intends to maintain its current high journalistic
standards, produced a front page
headline, mocking the speech impediment of Roy Hodgson, the new England
football manager. Outwageous!
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