“A damning report [in
late April 2012] on the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers
concluding that Mr. Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run a huge international
company has convulsed Britain’s political and media worlds and threatened a
core asset of Mr. Murdoch’s American-based News Corporation.”[1] The report also “found
that three senior Murdoch executives misled Parliament in testimony” and “alleges
that the company sought to cover up widespread phone hacking.”[2]
The full essay is in Cases of Unethical Business: A Malignant Mentality of Mendacity, available in print and as an ebook at Amazon.
1. John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya, “Panel in Hacking Case Finds Murdoch Unfit as News Titan,” The New York Times, May 1, 2012
2. Ibid.