Murdochgate: A dangerous time

Rupert Murdoch's empire seems to be crashing around his ears. The Sun is now being targeted as possibly hacking phones and the FBI are investigating allegations of phone hacking of September 11 victims. All well and good, many of us dislike Murdoch and his empire. However there is something worrying here. Parliament are howling like a pack of wolves after Murdoch and his newspapers but I heard tonight that maybe other papers may be involved. It sounds to me like the start of a witch hunt. Using the public's outrage at the press Parliament could rush through legislation curbing their power. I'm no advocate of the tabloids but the recent exposure of the excesses of MP's  expenses was I think a valid use of journalism to expose what is a blatant misuse of privilege.

 So we need to keep a weather eye open to make sure the MP's don't further erode our rights by curbing those legitimate investigations by the press that uncover the cheats and scoundrels who purport to have our best interests a t heart.

Rupert Murdoch and the deathly Hackers

So the News Of The World hacked peoples mobiles,proving once again that journalists are the lowest of bottom feeders. All of a sudden the other newspapers and news media find that they are on this moral highground. From this rarified height with there heads held high they can cheerfully piss on Murdoch's head.
 The only difference between them and Murdoch is that he's been caught. I bet the rest of them have skeletons in the closet that they hope will never come  to light.
 It's strange that all this should come to a head now just as Murdoch had been given the go ahead to buy BSKYB. If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd say someone had been sitting on this waiting for the most opportune moment but all this came to light via the police and the government. They wouldn't do that, would they?