July 22, 2011

On the Media

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🗓️ 22 July 2011

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0	On the media is supported by Reputation.com, with tools designed to help lawyers, doctors, and business professionals protect and improve their online reputations.
0:10.0	More about controlling online reputations at Reputation.com. This is NPR.
0:15.1	From WNIC in New York, this is On the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:19.4	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:20.6	I'm going to start with Mr. James Mech. On Tuesday, Wupert Murdoch, chairman of News
0:26.1	Corporation and his son James Murdoch, chairman of several News Corp properties, testified
0:32.2	before the Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee of Parliament in London. They were answering questions about the news of the world scandal,
0:40.3	in which an undetermined number of their employees illegally hacked into people's private voicemails,
0:46.3	an inquiry that by week's end had narrowed to the Watergate question.
0:51.3	What did the Murdox know and when did they know it? When two of the
0:55.7	tabloids former executives questioned James Murdoch's testimony, claiming never to have seen a 2008
1:02.7	corporate email confirming wider newsroom complicity in the hacking, one member of Parliament
1:08.8	notified Scotland Yard asking for an investigation into possible
1:13.1	obstruction of justice. It may not sound terribly serious to be testifying before the
1:19.3	culture, media, and sports select committee, but it is serious, as evidenced by the
1:25.6	we're really sorry statements at the beginning of the testimony
1:29.3	to members of Parliament, both from James.
1:31.3	First of all, I would like to say as well just how sorry I am.
1:35.3	And from Rupert.
1:37.3	This is the most humbled day of my life.
1:39.3	Sorry, humbled.
1:41.3	But not to blame.
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