Sunday, 13 November 2011

3 accounts of the James Murdoch story

Article from SKY Newshttp://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=684100&vId=2841769&cId=Top%20Stories

Key Points
- James Murdoch stated that "He didn't see. He wasn't told. He didn't know." 
- Murdoch was questioned for more than two and a half hours. 

Murdoch made one important concession to their version of events - acknowledging that he'd been briefed on the incriminating email back in 2008 - but insisted that its importance was kept from him.

More than a dozen journalists at News International, News Corp.'s British newspaper subsidiary, have been arrested, and several executives, including The Wall Street Journal's publisher, Les Hinton, have resigned.

Murdoch isn't home free. A judge-led inquiry into Britain's media could call him back to the UK for more questioning. And detectives could dredge up more damaging revelations.



Key Points
- James Murdoch insisted yesterday he was not told the full scale of phone hacking at the News of the World.

The News International chairman blamed the Sunday tabloid's ex-editor Colin Myler and its legal chief Tom Crone for keeping him in the dark at a meeting in 2008.

He repeatedly told MPs he was not shown the so-called "For Neville" email, which had been marked for the paper's ex-chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and indicated large-scale hacking.

He said: "It is not something that I would condone, it is not something I had knowledge of, and it is not something I think that has a place in the way that we operate."

Article from The Guardian- 



 

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