Fox News’ take on the the News of the World hacking scandal.
Hacking is a big problem they say, but it’s foreign govt hacking that we should worry about not Murdoch empire hacking (ie a US media empire hacking into citizen’s phones to get stories)
They say it’s the hacking that’s a problem, protection of privacy. Well yes that is a problem, but the fact that a media empire is seriously implicated in a phone hacking scandal is and remains very serious.
Fox found a PR guy to create a diversion.
He says that for some reason the public keeps going over it again and again…. And we should now move on and talk about the important topics of the day. Yeah right
We’ll see.
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What would you expect??? Murdoch does own Faux News.
Diversion as a political tactic? Hmm, I wonder if that might catch on here? Nah, our media folks would never fall for that, surely?
Our media folk are already snuggly cloistered with Murdoch or APN…or Steven Joyce.
Our media folk are already snuggly cloistered with Murdoch or APN…or Steven Joyce.
@ ehoa, for Steven it’s a wee bit too “snuggly” according to the word on the street …
Wow, that is amazing.
This Bob Dillon-Schneider guy spends the first three minutes discussing hacking incidents, but unless you know anything about the story, you would think “News of the World” was a victim of hacking, not the culprit. He links the name to victimised organisations like American Express.
The only time Schneider talks about details relating to “News of the World” is to commend the actions the company, and how Murdoch apologised.
Given that the hacking in this case is disgraceful esp when targeting grieving families & salacious gossip, I would still contend that hacking (wikileaks etc) and other dodgy source material is vital to a well working free press.
I would contend that there are two real stories here:
1. The content has allowed the politicians (business & gentry also) to gain public support for restrictions on the press, that will make it harder to report important stories, (political and commercial lies and deceit) or at least to get away with it.
2. The role of the police in creating security breaches, is serious.