I have no doubts there is a war being waged against Fox News. With that said, I can also say that had my email been hacked by a journalist from any organization I would want heads to roll.
The vdare.com blog is saying that all the British newspapers did the same thing and that this was a set up since Murdoch was about to buy up Sky News which would turn it into the British version of Fox News. The BBC is running scared.
First of all, the UK press has FOR YEARS refused to attack each other (gentleman's agreement which has become a tradition/convention, there's no "rule" in place enforcing it). The only reason this ever came to light is because ONE PAPER broke the convention and even then it took a week for the other newspapers to start commenting on the issue.Sky News - also owned by Murdoch - was right there alongside the BBC, in reporting it!So the idea there's some kind of orchestrated attempt by all the other non-Murdoch news outlets, is just farcical wishful thinking on the part of the "The sun shines out of Rupert Murdoch's arse" brigade. One minority paper refusing to let this drop, does not a conspiracy make.
Now you've heard it might involve 9/11 victims, suddenly it's not funny anymore, is it? Les Hinton's done what Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch should've done as soon as the Milly Dowler hack story went public - he's fallen on his sword. He is personally appalled by the hacking, and he has accepted that THE BUCK STOPS WITH AT THE TOP. So, he's gone. And, he's lost nothing. He's even retained his honour - no, I'd go further than that. He's proved he's got moral fiber, in a way that the two Murdochs haven't (by not accepting Rebekah's resignation and talking her out of doing the right thing). If he and James Murdoch were going for the same job and you wanted integrity, now you know which one to pick.
I said some time ago this was going to really bite Murdoch up the arse if he wasn't careful...
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