Paul McMullan’s appearance before the Leveson inquiry was stomach turning testimony, but it was the best insight yet into what went so badly wrong at the heart of News International culture.
Murdoch
Crikey Says: Another wheel falls off Murdoch train wreck
Should it surprise anyone that the corporate culture that produced industrial-scale phone hacking in Britain was also at work elsewhere? Hardly.
The rules of the game for media regulation
It pays to be careful when it comes to regulating the media. Here are some tips for the recent entrants in the game of “Regulate the Press”.
Fewer and stronger moguls — the product of our current media ownership laws
Under our current media ownership restrictions, we’ve lost a lot of media diversity and our moguls have been allowed to deepen their hold on Australian media. A national media diversity test could still help.
Murdoch suffers from Wall St crash, but you wouldn’t read about it
It hasn’t been a brilliant crisis for Rupert Murdoch, but you wouldn’t read about it in any of his journals, writes Glenn Dyer.
Murdoch and the WSJ, some further reading
So it’s not unreasonable to assume that Murdoch was forced to pay somewhere between $760 million and $1.22 billion more for Dow Jones just because of his reputation.
Murdoch: putting a Fox up Wall Street
What do you think of News Corp.’s deal to buy Dow Jones? That was the question posed on the Wall Street Journal’s blog yesterday. More than 600 replies later the verdict of the internet readers was clear.
Spinning for Rupert’s WSJ: Trust me, I’m a journalist
How long does it take to count the Bancroft family votes on Murdoching the Wall Street Journal? The silence since the alleged 7am deadline passed might suggest it was a not-quite-dead line despite the apparent rejection of Rupert’s Dow Jones bid. A News Corp spokesman is being quoted everywhere as saying it’s highly unlikely Murdoch will proceed with the bid without more support from the controlling family.
