Brooks & Murdoch dodge another bullet, Kevin Cahill (Sunday Times) Laurie Flynn (World in Action)

Kevin Cahill Laurie Flynn on Murdoch organised crime gang dodging another bullet
Murdoch runs an organised criminal outfit and has been bribing the Metropolitan police to protect him for decades. Hence no charges of perjury. Laurie Flynn suggests this corrupt relationship began during the Wapping dispute. Also. The News of the World was closed, not out of embarrassment, but as an excuse to destroy the documentary evidence which would likely convict Brooks, him and others.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-224/

Prince Harry has exposed Murdoch’s news empire—it’s time the police investigated

Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please don’t shrug and say it’s normal—it’s not

By Alan Rusbridger - January 23, 2025
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/69106/the-lies-and-smears-from-murdochs-news-empire-cannot-be-ignored

Journalists have spent months agonising over how not to normalise Trump. I have a variation on this theme: Please do not normalise Rupert Murdoch.

Yesterday—after 15 years of wriggling, delaying, lying, twisting and smearing—the British wing of Murdoch’s news empire shelled out more than £10m to prevent a court from hearing numerous allegations of persistent illegality. This is not normal.

The company has already paid out more than £1bn in costs and damages to thousands of others who found their most private communications had been spied on by journalists and private investigators doing the editorial dirty work on their behalf. This is not normal.

It’s not normal for a news organisation to target the private lives of MPs who have the temerity to raise questions about the way the company works. It’s not normal to enlist newspapers and private detectives in a form of corporate espionage in order to further the global expansion plans of its owner.

Hacking into the phones of members of the royal family? Not normal. Hacking the phone of a murdered schoolgirl in search of a scoop? Not normal. Employing more than 100 private investigators over a period of 16 years to hack, blag or otherwise obtain information on 35,000 occasions? This is not how normal newsrooms behave.

It’s not normal for a news organisation to pay nearly $800m to keep another story about the sleazy way it operates out of court. But yet another Murdoch company—Fox News—was it seems knowingly broadcasting lies about supposed attempts to rig the 2020 US election. Many Fox journalists didn’t believe the conspiracy theories they were broadcasting—but they pumped them out, anyway. This, I repeat, is not normal....