News of the World’s Rebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch now become the hunted

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Even more bizarre is Murdoch’s astonishing latest defense of the News International phone hacking scandal claiming that the company only made “minor mistakes.”

Now as the 80-year-old gets set to face the music along with his son James, also implicated after he authorized the enormous payoffs to News of the World phone-hacking victims, in front of Tuesday’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee meeting, it no doubt will be the most viewed select committee the British parliament has ever seen.

Murdoch says he wants to use the opportunity to address “some of the things that have been said in parliament, some of which are total lies.” Given the lies that his papers have spun over the years his statement is beyond laughable.

However, while his appearance on Tuesday will no doubt provide great theatre, the far more serious threat to his future comes from the FBI investigation into allegations News Corp sought to hack into the phones of September 11 victims.

Just like The Sun newspaper is still shunned in Liverpool after the lies it printed regarding the Hillsborough disaster, if America feels Murdoch’s media tried to meddle in the mourning of the victims of 9/11 his days as top media dog will no doubt be numbered.

*Paul Allen, is Managing Director of Paul Allen and Associates PR, www.prireland.com.

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