News Corporation has responded to today’s publication of the report of the House of Commons Culture Media and Sport Committee on “News International and Phone Hacking” . This afternoon News Corp issued the following statement on its website from the New York office:
“NEW YORK, NY, May 01, 2012
Hard truths have emerged from the Select Committee Report: that there was serious wrongdoing at the News of the World; that our response to the wrongdoing was too slow and too defensive; and that some of our employees misled the Select Committee in 2009.
News Corporation regrets, however, that the Select Committee’s analysis of the factual record was followed by some commentary that we, and indeed several members of the committee, consider unjustified and highly partisan. These remarks divided the members along party lines.
We have already confronted and have acted on the failings documented in the Report: we have conducted internal reviews of operations at newspapers in the United Kingdom and indeed around the world, far beyond anything asked of us by the Metropolitan Police; we have volunteered any evidence of apparent wrongdoing to the authorities; and, we have instituted sweeping changes in our internal controls and our compliance programs on a world-wide basis, to help ensure that nothing like this ever happens again anywhere at News Corporation.
As we move forward, our goal is to make certain that in every corner of the globe, our company acts in a manner of which our 50,000 employees and hundreds of thousands of shareholders can be justly proud.”
Once momentum with this really builds in America, he will be toast. That’s how it works. Think Richard Nixon and Enron. And the Democrats will be eager to use this to weaken Fox News during this year’s elections, more widely known as Faux News.