It has obviously come as a tremendous shock to Rupert Murdoch and his senior executives to discover his company’s biggest-selling newspaper, the News of the World, has been systematically and illegally hacking the private voicemails of public figures for years.
Not least because it suggests the absence of a vital piece of equipment Murdoch and his News Corporation executives have for decades steadfastly maintained they use on an everyday basis in running their global media company.
Crikey understands the search for the missing device is now a matter of high priority within the Murdoch empire. James Murdoch, son and heir apparent, is said to be masterminding the international search for the vital piece of equipment, assisted in Australia by his brother Lachlan, who developed a familiarity with the devices when he studied ethics at Princeton University.
The big concern within News Corp, according to company insiders, is that failure to immediately locate the instrument will create a disastrous impression that the company has been operating — possibly since its inception in the early 1950s — without it.
The pursuit coincides with another News Corp derby — the race to keep hundreds of potential litigants whose phones have been hacked (including a former deputy prime minister) out of the British courts.
May we suggest a much more straightforward approach — a metal detector could be just the thing to find that missing moral compass.
But why, when they’ve been doing so well without one all this time ? </sarcasm>
Oh the joy of this, the absolute joy that maybe just maybe, this evil family are going to get their comeuppance. Karma Rupe old man, karma… works every time.
Again, what are shareholders shelling out, to these executives, for? Their ignorance or their lack of morality and integrity – let alone what they’ve been doing to “news” and “journalism”?
We’ve already had Coulson saying he hadn’t “any recollection of incidences where phone hacking took place” (“and til you can prove otherwise, that’s my memory”?).
If these latest “miscreants” are going to carry the can, it’s probably just another case of “so much being owed to so few by so many”?
Dr Harvey M Tarvydas
Very nicely said Crikey and nicely played.
Being the medical genius (or geniass) that I am I have invented a solution for missing moral compasses in terms of damage avoidance when dealing with someone who doesn’t own up to a missing moral compass by a medical detection devise that you equip yourself with by swallowing my ‘magic’ pill that plants the devise and sudden ugly facial expressions and uncontrollable nausea with vomiting occurring for 5 minutes every time you are in the presence of a human without one (mc that is).
Do you think it will sell well and protect the human race at the same time.
@DAVID — so fun to see someone in rapturous joy.
Ah my good Doctor, it is difficult to embrace such joy these days, given the ongoing tripe and mischievous content the media indulge in…while it is my fervent wish old man Rupert ends his days in a cell, kept in isolation from the world he has tried to conquer by whatever means, I suspect he will worm his way out of this scandel and there will be someone else to take the rap for him. Such is the world he lives in.