Dial M For Murdoch: News Corporation And The Corruption Of Britain - Plot & Excerpts
Confronted with overwhelming evidence of the wrongdoing of its parent company, The Times could no longer avoid confronting its failings – though it still maintained that those failings were not the fault of the Murdochs. In an 1,800-word leader on 17 January arguing against stronger regulation, The Times paid a back-handed compliment to the investigative journalism which unpicked the deceit: As the evidence of wrongdoing came to light, News International, Rupert Murdoch’s company that also owns The Times, was unable or unwilling to police itself. This was a disgrace. It was, of course, the press that put Fleet Street in the dock. The dogged investigative reporting that unearthed the phone hacking scandal deserves respect, even if the story was exaggerated and key details misreported. In his evidence to Lord Leveson that day, The Times’s editor James Harding said: ‘I certainly wish we had got on the story harder, earlier.’ He disagreed with the views of the paper’s star columnist David Aaranovitch (see page 195) that the failure was linked to the Murdochs’ ownership.
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