The Murdoch mafia: how News Corp behaviour has been accepted

THE MURDOCH MAFIA: Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff reports on the state of Rupert Murdoch's grace-fallen media conglomerate. "As it happens, much of this pattern of conduct at News Corp. has long been hiding in plain sight. How the company has gotten away with such behavior is, in fact, a subtext of the investigations that are now unfolding. Partly, the company has escaped legal scrutiny because this is a boys-will-be-boys sort of story. News Corp.’s by-any-means aggressiveness has become so much a part of its identity that it seemed almost redundant to find fault with it. Everybody knew but nobody—for both reasons of fear and profit—did anything about it; hence its behavior has become, however unpleasant, accepted."