In the 20th century a series of UK investigations, including the Leveson Inquiry, demonstrated that Murdoch newspapers had engaged in phone hacking, police bribery and resort to dodgy private investigators.

A subsequent parliamentary committee found that Rupert had exhibited ‘wilful blindness’ to what was going on and that he was not a fit person to be running a major international company.

The Leveson Inquiry set up to investigate all the wrongdoing made many recommendations which PM David Cameron initially accepted and then set aside later – with the cowardly support of the Labour Opposition.

The whole scandal was systematically pursued by brilliant journalism from people like The Guardian’s Nick Davies and Private Eye who exposed much media corruption and named names embroiling not only News Limited but also other media outlets. Journalists were sacked and the press secretary to PM David Cameron, Andy Coulson, was forced to resign while newspapers such as the News of World closed.

There were many resignations of Murdoch executives and also the Commissioner of London’s........

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