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Phone hacking crisis shows News Corp is no ordinary news company
by Jay Rosen: “Rupert Murdoch’s news organisations are not in the news business. What they crave is influence”
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Piers Morgan, former editor of the News of the Time, takes on parliament member Louise Mensch who accused him of phone hacking.
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Now liveblogging News Corp hacking scandal at Reuters
Follow my ongoing coverage there. Send me any links, video, etc you think I may have missed.
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Viewing Options for Parliament Hearing Tomorrow
Tomorrow parliament will be holding a hearing to investigate the News of the World hacking affair. Here are some options for watching online. Will update if other options become available:
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There are plenty of examples of reporters going to extreme lengths to satisfy exacting news desks without quite veering into obvious criminality. There was the tabloid freelancer who hid in a church organ for several days, defecating in a plastic bag, to get pictures of Madonna’s baby’s christening; there was the time Rebekah Brooks, then a lowly reporter, disguised herself as a cleaner to infiltrate the newsroom of a sister publication and nab a copy of their scoop.
But the great tapestry of tabloid infamy has always been viewed as an entertaining appendage to public life, mischievous rather than malicious. The UK press looks across the Atlantic and—with, to my British sensibility, some justification—views a moribund print culture that spends more time pontificating about morals than getting stories and making them interesting to readers. As the former Times editor and Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins once put it, “I was trained as a reptile lurking in the gutter whose sole job was ‘to get the bloody story.’” Not for nothing does the trophy for the country’s most prestigious investigative journalism award, the Bevins Prize, show a determined rat nosing up a drainpipe.In the May/June issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Archie Bland wrote about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and why there was relative silence in the English media about over the past few years.
In doing so, he explores the country’s cutthroat media culture and suggests that most ignored the issue because most were most likely doing the same.
Archie Bland, Columbia Journalism Review. Anybody There? Why the UK’s phone-hacking scandal met media silence.
(via futurejournalismproject)
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
