When the News Corporation phone-hacking scandal erupted last summer, CEO Rupert Murdoch and son James said that an outside law firm the company hired in 2007 had concluded that the hacking was limited to a rogue reporter. The company’s in-house lawyers, they added, never contradicted that finding.
This time around, under the scrutiny of an investigation in Parliament and a separate judicial inquiry into the media in general, News Corp. hired a slew of lawyers to conduct a second internal probe. The results have been quite different. In this very public forum, the “rogue reporter” defense has been battered into oblivion.
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