The Knight Life by Keith Knight for August 29, 2011
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KK: I mean seriously!! why would the news copr phone hacking scandal be limited to just the UK? News Corp owns media all over the world!! Surely they share ideas, resources, logistics and business techniques!! sounds like paranoid gibberish to me!! KK: really? This coming from "conspiracy guy"? CG: even Conspiracy guy knows crazy when he hears it!!
Just depends on whether you think the direction came from Murdoch at the top, or was the unauthorized work of a large group of rogue editors and reporters at his flagship British property over an extended period of time. The fact his other media properties exhibit many of the same sort of yellow journalism traits as is in no way an indicator of top-down direction on all aspects of the operations.Right.