September 9, 2010

Is Murdoch Berlusconi? And Is Britain Italy?

By Michael Wolff

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The Brits are terribly confused. The scandal that they thought had run out of gas is suddenly, as though by a deus ex machina, back full-steam . And yet it is the same scandal, with relatively few new details, being covered by the same news outlets. Nothing on the face of it has changed. The Media Show on the BBC’s Radio 4—in a discussion of the phone hacking charges and of Rupert Murdoch’s and his company’s involvement in it, and of the New York Times’ recent upstart coverage of it—was world-weary in its sophistication. The scandal...