It’s been a bad week for Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation. The ‘apology’ for its phone-hacking antics are set to open the floodgates on other such claims but few readers will worry about that. Indeed, News Corps plight isn’t worth even a note from the world’s smallest violin. The problems that underpin the story, however, are […]
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The Digger And The Hackers
Jan 26th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.Rupert Murdoch is on his way to the annual shindig of global movers and shakers at Davos. Quite what is moved and shaken at Davos is frankly anyone’s guess. But Mr Murdoch will be dropping in to London on his way over and he is not a happy man. Correction; he is hopping mad. Usually he […]
Coulson’s departure isn’t half the story
Jan 23rd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Cameron clinging to Coulson as his media fixer to the last possible moment, well beyond the point when his departure was inevitable, does say something about Cameron’s judgement since he behaved in exactly the same way over Michael Ashcroft, the ex-patriate from Belize who bought up the Tory party. Virtually everyone believed that Coulson must […]