Another Murdoch-NOTW update

MILIBAND'S MURDOCH CRUSADE: Ed Miliband is really jumping on the phone-hacking scandal. I notice today in the Guardian that he's pushing for deconstruction of the Murdoch enterprise, or, in the sensationalist's parlance (and, at times, mine too) 'empire'. "I think that we've got to look at the situation whereby one person can own more than 20% of the newspaper market, the Sky platform and Sky News. I think it's unhealthy because that amount of power in one person's hands has clearly led to abuses of power within his organisation. If you want to minimise the abuses of power then that kind of concentration of power is frankly quite dangerous," he told the paper. He's certainly got timing on his side -- the article goes on to report that the push "comes ahead of what promises to be a dramatic appearance by Rupert Murdoch, his son James, the chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, and Brooks before the Commons culture, media and sport committee." Looking forward to it.

TWEETING THE NEWS: How Twitter users followed the story. 

A CLUMSY DEFENSE FROM FOX NEWS? One of Murdoch's other illustrious properties, Fox News (the megaphone of misinformation for conservatives), has managed to spin a rather clumsy defence of their parent company, by trying to make the story about hacking in general - even hacking that doesn't bear resemblence to phone hacking for journalism. "It really should get behind us...and we should move on and deal with the important topics of the day." I agree, but not just yet. A commenter concludes: "Any more proof needed that Fox News is just a propaganda machine?"

ANOTHER FULL-PAGE AD: This one in the Sunday Times, a News Corp. paper. "Putting right what's gone wrong." (via Soup)