Thursday, April 5, 2012
Aargh, Matey! The Scandal Spreads
Corporate media pirate and right-wing scandalmonger Rupert "Aargh" Murdock has suffered another blow to his media empire. Britain's Sky News Channel, which he has a large stake in, has been forced to acknowledge that they also hacked private phones, similar to Murdoch's now-defunct newspaper "News of the World." What makes this particularly dangerous for the Murdoch empire is that Sky News -- like America's Fox Channel -- is a major money maker, unlike his print media empire. Investigations into the hacking could also lead to America's shores, given the tight coordination among Murdoch's officials and methods here and in Great Britain. Could the Fox Channel's hands be dirty? We'd love to find out.