Another " Most Humble Day Of His Life" ?

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23175564

Murdoch back to his old tricks it would seem. Is this man ever going to stop
being duplicitous ?

[murraymints]

He just can't help himself can he ?..time to go Mr M...

[mikey4444]

Not so sure that things will change very much when and if he goes Murraymints. After all, sitting along side of him in that Commons Select Committee was his son, who either lied or "couldn't recall"

Employees of his company are facing very serious charges. Brooks, et all will be in court in a few weeks time and face the very real chance of going to prison. Dozens of other employees of Murdoch have already been investigated, and are facing similar serious charges.

But to listen to Mr Murdoch, you would think that somebody had been looking into irregularities in the office petty cash. I think the Committee should now recall him and ask him to explain himself again.

[emmie]

why do you think it ok he was bugged...

[mikey4444]

Don't understand your question em....perhaps if he had been asked nicely, he would have agreed to let himself be exposed ?

Whoever did the bugging has done us all a big favour, in exposing this man for what he is, especially for the minority who still think he's a bonza chap.

[LazyGun]

He does appear to have had a couple of right old annus horribiluses, don't he?

Although, to be fair, the bit i have heard of the tapes show he was demonstrating loyalty and solidarity to his staff, which is what a boss ought to do. And I share his disquiet with the way the police mounted highly publicized "dawn raids" to simply arrest, question then release on bail several high profile journalists/editors. Excessive and unnecessary, in my opinion.

At least one of the editors, Neil something or other, was arrested in a 6am raid on his house - spent 18 months on bail ,having to report in every so often, then the charges against him were dropped. That does not seem either fair or just to me, given the nature of the alleged crime.

Despite my small jot of sympathy with him though, it still goes to show that he deems hacking of phones, intercepting voicemails, the corruption of cops and other public officials, all that sleazy behaviour as "trivial". I vehemently disagree.

[Gromit]

Funny jow he seems to recall it all now, but on his day before the select Committee he did a great impersonation of a senile old buffer who couldn't tie his own shoelaces anymore. He must have been reading the Ernest Saunders self hep book.

Smartphones such as an iPhone have a record function and this was undoubtedly the way the rant was captured. I assume to get that close to Murdoch, the person who recorded it must have been 'on board'. Something must have happened to make them jump ship. Remember, Murdoch closed the NotW and a lot of people lost their jobs. The two events could be connected.

Em10,
Do you not think that it is somewhat ironic that Murdoch's rant was captured on a phone, when the whole mess they are in was because they broke into other people phone accounts?

[Gromit]

Neil Wallis was Deputy under Andy Coulson who has himself been charged. It would be odd that Coulson was using illegal techniques and Wallis, his Deputy was unaware what was happening. So it seems reasonable that he was thoroughly investigated. After which a file was sent to the CPS who decided that there wasn't enough evidence to gain a conviction.

[youngmafbog]

I dont get your beef, apart from your anti Murdoch and absolute hatred of anything from his corp just because they disagree with your right-on thinking.

And why should he go?

[mikey4444]

youngmafbog...the beef, as you put it in your usual well thought out post, is that this man pretended to know very little or even nothing when he was interviewed by the all-party Commons Select Committee. Many of his employees are facing very serious charges in our courts later on this summer. He has been caught out by a secret recording, and should now explain himself.

Are you suggesting that the Police, Crown Prosecution Service and the Courts of Law, as well as the all party Commons Committee are somehow doing their jobs because they are all left wing ? Extraordinary, even from you.

[Davethedog]

It was in March and who was he being duplicitous to? He invited the police in and handed over all the stuff, so was what he saying for the benifit of the people he has just stabbed in the back?

Also he he seems rather chipper in comparison to his doddery Levenson appearances don't you think.

People like him , don't get where they are by playing by the rules.

[vetuste_ennemi]

pedant's corner: anni horribiles.

[emmie]

not sure you don't see the irony, police bug him, his journalists bug others, it's odd because isn't the Leveson enquiry about press phone hacking, why is this so very different. If he doesn't have a good opinion of the police, then sure he isn't alone, there are enough people on AB who don't much like them either.

[emmie]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/annus+horribilis

[emmie]

so Gromit, it's ok to bug his meetings, phones. He is not a matter of national security, nor a terror suspect, or a danger to the public,
pathetic.

[Kromovaracun]

He really doesn't say anything that salacious or incriminating. In fact the recording is pretty dull, despite how determined everyone is to make this look like a 1990s crime thriller.

[Gromit]

// He [Murdoch] is not a matter of national security, nor a terror suspect, or a danger to the public //

The NotW did not hack people who were a danger to national security, terror suspects, or a danger to the public. They hacked these people...

Andy Gray
Benedict Grant Noakes
Boris Johnson
Brendan Montague
Brian Paddick
Chris Bryant
Chris Tarrant
Colin Stagg
David Davies
Elle Macpherson
George Galloway
Gordon Taylor
Heather Mills
Helen Asprey
Ian Blair
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
Jo Armstrong
John Prescott
Kieren Fallon
Max Clifford
Mike Fuller
Nicola Phillips
Paddy Harverson
Paul Gascoigne
Prince Harry of Wales
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
Sienna Miller
Simon Hughes
Sky Andrew
Steve Coogan
Tessa Jowell
Tommy Sheridan
Wayne Rooney

[emmie]

so why did they need to bug him, still don't see the point,

[emmie]

isn't Leveson going to sort that out, maybe, he may not be your cup of tea, but quite honestly i don;t see why you or anyone hate him so much.

[Gromit]

// Geoff Webster, the Sun's deputy editor, referring to the perceived police vendetta, said it would be "nice to hit back when we can".

"We will, we will," says Murdoch. //

Em10, do you not find it disturbing that a media mogul is plotting against the police? Do you not find it disturbing that they are bribing officials to disclose information that should be private and not disclosed?

[Gromit]

// so why did they need to bug him, still don't see the point, //

The meeting between Murdoch and the Sun journalists had been called because the journalists felt betrayed. Some of them will go to prison, and they felt the company was looking after itself and not them.

Obviously, he failed to placate them and the tape was leaked.