Murdoch in trouble in the UK-again

[BMR]

This time it's not phone hacking but TV encryption hacking.

Basically one of Murdoch's companies hacked into a pay TV rival and put the codes out there on the internet for anyone to use.

Although this was ten years ago, it only came out last night, on the BBC's Panorama show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17494723

You've got to wonder how many more blows this mans reputation can take....

 

[kilamanjero]

Trust me when I say, he nor the board of directors could careless about the UK and Newscorp's reputation there. As long as they have a significant number of US citizens glued to their pseudo-validated reporting and talking heads on FNC to general programming on the main network.

 

[recto101]

Wow in the USA we Bash Rupert Murdoch for running a propaganda operation with Fox News Channel and buying out RNC politicians. In the UK they accuse him of being a hacker.
I even heard of the Murdoch operations hacking into American victims of 9/11 mentioned. At some point Rupert's American Operations will be investigated. But I saw the PBS Frontline investigation of News Corp with Former CBS News producer Lowell Bergman.

 

[recto101]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496275/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt_(TV_series)

Remember the FX TV series Dirt in 2007 and in 2008. It was supposed to be based on how the Murdoch Tabloids in the UK operate, how Harvey Levin's TMZ and the National Enquirer in the USA operate.

Courtney Cox has starred on a TV show that is basically "the Jungle" of how the Tabloid Industry works.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Excellent point. Like any of us had high expectations for the moral standards
of those involved in tabloid journalism.

 

[azumanga]

The piracy scandal has also reached Murdoch's home turf of Australia, as well:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-28/news-piracy-claims-should-be-sent-to-afp-says-conroy/3917880

 

[DToTheJ]

Remember the FX TV series Dirt in 2007 and in 2008. It was supposed to be based on how the Murdoch Tabloids in the UK operate, how Harvey Levin's TMZ and the National Enquirer in the USA operate...

Fast forward a few years later, and Fox has got the real Harvey Levin and a daily "TMZ" show on their O&O's. Small world... :

 

[recto101]

Remember the FX TV series Dirt in 2007 and in 2008. It was supposed to be based on how the Murdoch Tabloids in the UK operate, how Harvey Levin's TMZ and the National Enquirer in the USA operate...

Fast forward a few years later, and Fox has got the real Harvey Levin and a daily "TMZ" show on their O&O's. Small world... :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02N_qD9n6c

Here's Harvey Levin as a local LA reporter on KCBS2 News back in 1994.

 

[landtuna]

Remember the FX TV series Dirt in 2007 and in 2008. It was supposed to be based on how the Murdoch Tabloids in the UK operate, how Harvey Levin's TMZ and the National Enquirer in the USA operate...

Fast forward a few years later, and Fox has got the real Harvey Levin and a daily "TMZ" show on their O&O's. Small world... :

I don't understand why Levin and TMZ are included as "journalists" in this discussion. They are nothing of the sort and proudly announce as much in their promos. Although there are times when TMZ does report hard news most of what they do is make fun of the massive egos that talentless Hollywood types display.