Murdoch apologizes. Will that stop the investigations?

It does seem to help when one of the privileged ones apologizes.

Translation: Oopsy! I didn't mean to get caught.

Murdoch apologizes for hacking scandal

9:38 a.m. EDT, July 16, 2011

LONDON (Reuters) - "We are sorry," Rupert Murdoch said in British newspapers on Saturday, as News Corp tried to quell the uproar over a phone-hacking scandal that has shaken the company and claimed its top two newspaper executives.

In full-page adverts, Murdoch pledged "concrete steps" to resolve the issue in a bid to regain the initiative after losing Les Hinton, head of Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and Rebekah Brooks, head of News Corp's British newspaper arm, on Friday.

But some questioned if the apologies and resignations would allay public and political anger over allegations the Murdoch-owned News of the World newspaper hacked thousands of phones, including that of a murdered 13-year-old girl.

The scandal forced Murdoch to close the best-selling Sunday paper, and drop a $12 billion plan to buy full control of highly profitable pay-TV operator BSkyB.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/consumer/sns-rt-us-newscorp-hackingtre7641io-20110705,0,4537967.story

If he's now apologizing, he knows he's in real trouble. :woohoo:

Hasn't that poor, tormented man suffered enough?

He needs advertisers to stick with The Sun. So he needs to make people think he's sorry, and the PR departments of advertisers that they won't be boycotted themselves, if they advertise in The Sun.

The investigations will go ahead anyway. His work to avoid trouble from those will be behind the scenes.