Murdoch scandal: How are his big US media outlets covering it?

[TomCADem]

Source: Christian Science Monitor

The Wall Street Journal, owned by Mr. Murdoch since 2007, ran a lead editorial on Monday that media analysts have characterized as a mixture of defiance, deflection, and denial. The editorial reads in part: “It is up to British authorities to enforce their laws.”

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Meanwhile, Fox News, another News Corp. media outlet, has served up more than 90 segments on the Murdoch scandal, which centers on phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World, a British tabloid also among the News Corp. holdings. Yet some media critics, including James Fallows of The Atlantic magazine, have found fault with Fox News’s coverage.
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The New York Post, another key News Corp. holding in the United States, has offered a half dozen or so short stories on the phone-hacking scandal in the past two weeks. As of Monday morning, The New York Times, which is not affiliated with News Corp., had published about 100 pieces on the scandal. The Wall Street Journal had published 35.

“This is about the future of the fourth estate,” says Richard Levick, president of Levick Strategic Communications in Washington – whether the public has lost faith in the media and whether journalism will take the lead in demanding the highest standards possible. “We have The Wall Street Journal interviewing its own corporate boss , saying that he has handled the crisis well, with no rebuttals,” he says.


Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/0719/Murdoch-scandal-How-are-his-big-US-media-outlets-covering-it

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Here is a nice survey of how News Corp's media empire is doing its best to censor, skew the scandal involving its illegal surveillance of people.

[OnyxCollie]

1. K&R. nt

[myrna minx]

2. Very interesting. Thanks for posting. K&R n/t

[Hugin]

3. Disney and Comcast news aren't covering it at any depth either.

Must be the Pot and Kettle Conundrum at work.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, TomCADem.

[harun]

5. The fourth estate jumped the shark a long time ago. Anyone who still

believes anything they say is either not paying attention or a total dope (probably both).