Guardian blog Main Points on the hearing so far

Here are the main points.

• Rupert Murdoch has had a plate of shaving foam thrust in his face by a protester. The attacker has been arrested. Labour's Chris Bryant said that attack was "despicable" and a contempt of parliament.

• Rupert Murdoch said that giving evidence to the committee was "the most humble day of my career".

• The Murdochs confirmed that News International carried on paying some of Glenn Mulcaire's legal fees after his conviction for phone hacking in 2007. One MP suggested that this could be interpreted as News International funding a cover-up (because Mulcaire has been fighting demands that he should disclose full details of his phone-hacking activities). James Murdoch said that he was "surprised and shocked" when he heard about these payments. Rupert Murdoch said that he would stop future payments, as long as there were no contractual reasons why he should not do so.

• Murdoch said that he did not feel that he was personally responsible for what went wrong at the company.

• The Murdochs said they had "no plans" to set up a Sunday title. They conceded that they had discussed this, but they said it was not priority.

• James Murdoch said that he agreed to the £700,000 payment to Gordon Taylor because he thought it was a hangover from the original court case.

• Rupert Murdoch said he did not find out about the Taylor payment - which has been perceived as hush money - until it was publicised in the Guardian.

• Rupert Murdoch said that he thought that the phone-hacking matter had been settled after 2007. "The police ended their investigations and I was told that News International conducted an internal review," he said. (Interestingly, Murdoch is blaming the police for not investigating the matter more thoroughly in 2006. But last week Peter Clarke, the officer in charge of that investigation, said he could not carry it out properly because News International did not co-operate.)

• Rupert Murdoch played down his influence on his British newspaper editors. He did not even phone the editor of the News of the World every week, he says. Of all his papers, he pays most attention to the Wall Street Journal, he said.

• Rupert Murdoch said in his opening statement: "I hope our contribution to Britain will one day ... be recognised."

• Rupert Murdoch said Downing Street asked to him to use the back door when he visited David Cameron at No 10 after the general election.

• Rupert Murdoch said that he hoped to repair his relationship with Gordon Brown.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/19/phone-hacking-rupert-murdoch-rebekah-brooks-mps?CMP=twt_fd

they did, turn about is fair play.

So if you miss something you can go there.

I'm listening/watching the hearings and trying to eat
LOL

but the link might help others, its in the OP


Damn I think the Guardian is the best paper in the world right now.


We an't got nothing like it in the states.

and my deadline on that one is 4 hours from now, and I think I've got about 2-3 hours work yet to do.

Yes, I multitask at work. (Shh, don't tell my boss)

In that I, too, hope that one day the full impact of Murdoch's despicable career not only in Britain but anywhere else in the world is recognized for what it is. And if that day comes while Rupert is still alive, he might want to avoid being in proximity to any lamp posts.

Rebekah Brooks faces MPs – live coverage


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/19/rebekah-brooks-mps

Thanks for the thread, Ichingcarpenter.