Of course, if the Parliamentary inquiry committee had sworn him in, it would have been even more likely.<\/p>\n
You see, according to tow of James Murdoch’s staffers, he was specifically made aware of the phone hacking when he signed off on settlements with litigants<\/a>:<\/p>\n James Murdoch has been accused of misleading the parliamentary select committee this week in relation to phone hacking, igniting yet another fire for the embattled News International boss to extinguish.<\/p>\n In a highly damaging broadside, two former News of the World senior executives claimed the evidence Murdoch gave to the committee on Tuesday in relation to an out-of-court settlement to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association, was “mistaken”.<\/p>\n The statement came as something of a bombshell to the culture, sport and media select committee, which immediately announced it would be asking Murdoch to explain the contradiction.<\/p>\n Colin Myler, editor of the paper until it was shut down two weeks ago, and Tom Crone, the paper’s former head of legal affairs, said they had expressly told Murdoch of an email that would have blown a hole in its defence that only one “rogue reporter” was involved in the phone-hacking scandal.<\/p>\n This contradicts what Murdoch told the committee when questioned on Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As an aside on the media, if you want to follow this, I recommend two sources, the Guardian<\/a><\/i>, which really went out on a limb in following this for years, and Keith Olbermann<\/a> who has been on this like white on rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of course, if the Parliamentary inquiry committee had sworn him in, it would have been even more likely. You see, according to tow of James Murdoch’s staffers, he was specifically made aware of the phone hacking when he signed off on settlements with litigants: James Murdoch has been accused of misleading the parliamentary select committee …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,984,1064,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-europe","category-media","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}