The Hacking of Rupert Murdoch
News media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s hacking tribulations are related as much to his fundamental conservatism as they are to the stupidity of his underlings.
In Murdoch’s case, the term “conservatism” must be qualified in that he may have gut conservative values but he also possesses the innate instincts of a businessman-politician. He fund-raised for Hillary Clinton and quasi-endorsed Barack Obama yet he sits on the Board of Directors of the Cato Institute and his beleagured News Corporation fully owns the bane of all liberals, the Fox News Network, as well as the World Street Journal.
Murdoch is essentially a realistic, closet conservative who knows where his bread is buttered.
No one has been buttering his bread lately since the revelations that employees at one of his British newspapers, the News of the World, committed horrendous acts of phone-hacking, violating the privacy and memories of innocent people dead and alive. News Corp closed the 168 year old tabloid in the wake of that scandal.
As unforgivable as those acts were, the real question relates to why and how a CEO should be held responsible for the stupid insensitivities and ignorance of a relative few of News Corp’s tens of thousands of employees.
The Brits, as usual, are all in a dither, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5032)
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