JAMES AND RUPERT MURDOCH yesterday told a House of Commons committee that they knew virtually nothing about the phone-hacking going on at one of their major newspapers, the News of the World.
The pair told the committee that they kept an arm’s-length relationship with the newspaper and that they were not aware of the newspaper’s internal workings – including its employment of private investigators with criminal records, or the paper’s systematic phone-hacking practices.
The Murdochs said that in a major international media empire, it was impossible to pay close attention to every aspect of every newspaper – and that they only became aware of the hacking of Milly Dowler’s voicemail when it was reported in the papers.
Put simply, today we simply ask: do you believe them when they say they knew so little of the phone-hacking at the News of the World?
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