Rupert Murdoch secret tapes: News Corp defends head

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Source: BBC

3 July 2013 Last updated at 19:52 ET

News Corp has defended chief Rupert Murdoch after a secret recording was released of him criticising the police inquiry into alleged phone hacking.

Talking in March to a group of Sun journalists - many of whom are under investigation - he complains about "totally incompetent" police officers.

The recording was obtained by the Exaro website and broadcast on Channel 4 News on Wednesday.

News Corp said Mr Murdoch had shown "understandable empathy" with staff.

Allegations of phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World thrust the newspaper's owners, News Corp, and its journalists directly into the spotlight.

A separate Scotland Yard investigation is also looking into claims of inappropriate payments made to police.

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

[JDPriestly]

1. Interesting. Now we know why there was no hacking investigation in the US.

Because Fox would have retaliated by exposing our government's massive surveillance apparatus. I doubt that Fox was unaware of it.