Rupert Murdoch
News of the World claims George Orwell was a fan
As Political Scrapbook noted on Sunday, there’s something supremely ironic about the News of the World quoting George Orwell in its final edition. Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-four, a dystopian novel about a totalitarian state that spies on… Read more
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News International buys ‘thesunonsunday.co.uk’
Following Thursday’s announcement that the News of the World will be published for the last time tomorrow, it’s very likely that News International’s plans for making The Sun a 7-days-a-week operation are going to start moving along a little… Read more
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Phone hacking finally makes front page of the Sun… but only just
The majority of tomorrow’s front pages are covering the ongoing phone hacking saga at the News of the World with the prominence it deserves: Except, that is, for the News of the World’s sister paper, the Sun: Can… Read more
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How the Sun is reporting the phone hacking scandal
Given that the News of the World is their sister paper, it’s no surprise at all to discover that the Sun is reporting the escalating allegations of phone hacking in the following way: It’s also not surprising at all that the Sun is the only… Read more
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News International ‘an illegal entity’?
Today, the Guardian’s Media Monkey has dug out a few Murdoch-related entries from the past, including this little gem from June 2005: It was one of those legal quirks that makes you proud of the England and Wales justice system. The Sun escaped… Read more
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The Telegraph and its ‘full transcript’ of the conversation with Vince Cable
According to Robert Peston’s BBC blog, the Daily Telegraph “chose not to publish the most explosive part of the remarks made by Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, to undercover reporters”. Peston claims that a full transcript of the reporters’… Read more
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