Revealed: Senior MP's secret links to Murdoch

Source: Independent U.K.

The MP who will lead the attack on Rebekah Brooks and Rupert and James Murdoch this week over their roles in the phone-hacking scandal has close links with the media empire, it is revealed today.

John Whittingdale, the Conservative chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport committee, admitted he was an old friend of Mr Murdoch's close aide, Les Hinton, and had been for dinner with Ms Brooks.

The Independent on Sunday has also learnt that Mr Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth, seen as the future saviour of the company, has also met Mr Whittingdale a number of times. Among her 386 "friends" on Facebook, the only MP she lists is Mr Whittingdale. He is also the only MP among 93 Facebook "friends" of Mr Hinton.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-senior-mps-secret-links-to-murdoch-2315111.html

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It will be hard to find ANY conservative politicians who don't have links with Murdoch and his minions. Evil bastards are everywhere!

to Tony B Liar and his cronies.

ExNOTWjourno2

This week the toxic Blair/Bush Relationship will unfold... M

From yesterdays discussion - such sophisticated word games defeat me.

Scuzzbucketry up the wazoo

That can be taken to the bank too.
rec

don't know what i mean but it sounded good

'It will be hard to find ANY conservative politicians who don't have links with Murdoch and his minions.'

Agreed - and probably a fair few Labour ones too.

In many countries, democracy is in danger because of too much government control of the media.

In mine, for many years, democracy has been in danger because of too much media control of the government.

But even those of us who were worried about it never realized QUITE how bad it had become.

Thanks for the thread, Snoutport.

A Special Proscutor with a huge staff will be needed to sort all this out.

He's generally seen by many of his constituents as a bit of a wally, but he's MP for a part of Essex where you could pin a blue rosette on a dead donkey and it would get elected.

It's worth noting that prior to becoming chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport committee in Parliament he was Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport so he's exactly the sort of person that the Murdoch would try and butter up as much as possible over a long period.