September 8, 2010

News Corp. Is Freaking Out

By Michael Wolff

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“You don’t get it,” a member of News Corporation’s inner circle in London told me last night, about the phone hacking scandal . “If there was a conspiracy in the company, the conspiracy was to keep Rupert from knowing.” That is called the circle-the-wagons defense. That’s called everybody-else-is-expendable. That’s called a total freak-out. The company has been caught as unaware, as unprepared, as incapable of responding, as on the ropes, as it ever has in its 60-year history. News Corp. only knows how to be the aggressor; now it’s on...