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Even More Fallout: Les Hinton of WSJ Announces Resignation
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The New York Times
Friday, July 15, 2011 — 4:28 PM EDT
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Les Hinton, Publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Says He Is Resigning
Les Hinton, the chairman of Dow Jones, announced his resignation on Friday, joining Rebekah Brooks, the embattled chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper operations, in the exodus of top officials from Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
Mr. Hinton, a long-time confidant of Mr. Murdoch, ran News International, the British publishing subsidiary of Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation from 1997 to 2005, during the time when the phone hacking that touched off the scandal took place.
The departure of Mr. Hinton and Ms. Brooks began a day of stepped-up damage control by Mr. Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation, who on Friday released a copy of an apologetic note to be published in all British newspapers over the weekend. He also visited the family of a murdered 13-year-old girl, Milly Dowler, whose voice mail was hacked by reporters at The News of the World while she was still listed as missing.
10 Responses to “Even More Fallout: Les Hinton of WSJ Announces Resignation”
That’ll get Holder and the Department of Justice stirred.
(as memos about non-liberal media from ObamaCo make clear)
I concede that the shadenfreude I feel over this whole News Corp affair does not make this my best moment. I will try to focus on acknowledging how the case illustrates that having garbage for ethics does eventually catch up to you.
The Wall Street Journal has a good reputation still. Hopefully, they can be separated from Murdoch quickly.
Now Scotland Yard in bed with those good ole Murdoch boys:
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, July 16, 2011 — 1:38 PM EDT
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Taint From Tabloids Rubs Off on a Cozy Scotland Yard
For nearly four years, six overstuffed plastic bags containing possible evidence of phone hacking by the British tabloid, The News of the World, collected little more than dust in the evidence room of Scotland Yard.
During that time, British police officials assured Parliament, judges, lawyers, potential hacking victims, the news media and the public that there was no evidence of widespread hacking by the paper. But that assertion has been reduced to tatters in the last week, torn apart by an avalanche of contradictory evidence, admissions by newspaper executives that the hacking was more widespread, and a reversal by police officials who now admit to mishandling the case.
In an article in the Sunday New York Times, Don Van Natta Jr. explains how the British police agency and News International, the British subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and the publisher of The News of the World, became so intertwined that they shared the goal of containing the investigation.
Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/world/europe/17police.html?emc=na
my my, isn’t this quite the downward spiral.
His US interests will probably survive, depending on whether or not 9-11 victim cell phones were hacked.
That is an action no American will tolerate.
Apparently Hinton’s resignation now is being reported as due to the man’s earlier UK activities.
As for Murdoch and the Journal, it was a widespread concern that he might wreck it, though so far it doesn’t seem to be the case. The Journal is a high-quality paper (or Web site, too, now) and honest liberals know this; they can always avoid the two editorial pages (and opinion articles on-line) if they cannot stand the views that are common there. (There are liberal articles on the editorial pages, too, and in older days, Al Hunt, Liberal, used to have a regular Thursday column there.)
The Journal WAS a high-quality paper but all that has changed… Honest conservatives (the new carrier pigeon?) would agree.
Exactly, “the views that are common there!” Murdock has turned a decent, straightforward financial newspaper into a shock jock ‘tabloid’ and the decent journalists quit when that happened.
And Alan Colmes USED to be at Fox News. Thanks for disproving your own comment.
I’d prefer rational responses to my postings.
Prof. Elwood wrote:
Bloomberg (as in Business Week), are you reading this?
Maybe if you start making rational remarks… rational comments would start coming your way.
I replied point-by-point to your comment. I even incorporated your tone to make sure you’d ‘get it’ and all you are able to reply is to ask for a “rational response”. Now that’s funny… That’s really funny!