It is hard to believe!

The scandal surrounding the News of the World phone hacking has now spread to engulf the Murdoch media empire and rightly so. It is hard to believe in fact incomprehensible that the culture of 'reporting'  that has been exposed in Britain has known any national or media boundary.  It is all pervasive and evasive and we in Australia need to recognise that given 70% of our media is controlled by News Limited that the culture has not been alive and well and kicking in the Murdoch stable at home.

I will watch with interest from my New York hotel the proceedings in the House of Commons today as Rupert Murdoch explains to the British people why they can now believe him given that the trust they placed in his newspapers has been exposed for what it really is...the fourth estate has been runing the place (and Cameron too)!

Last night I read the Wall Street Journal (another of the Murdoch stable). Its editorial said what no doubt is a view held by those in the upper echelons of News Corporation (and Limited).

"If Scotland Yard failed to do adequately (enforcing the law) when the hacking was first uncovered several years ago then that is more troubling than the hacking itself" Rupert Murdoch will eventually be replaced...but the cancer will remain.

Postscript: Today I came across News Corporation headquarters and a lone demonstrator. We compared notes!  Further on I came across a journo setting up outside The Wall Street Journal. We also exchanged notes! CNN  is doing extensive coverage of the  appearance of the Murdochs at the House of Commons Committee and the old 'pie in the face' trick! More to come I am sure!