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The Media Show: The Murdochs and Phone Hacking

The Murdochs and Phone Hacking

20/07/2011

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, The Murdochs and Phone Hacking

20 July 2011: Phone hacking and the Murdochs.

Roger Alton, Neil Midgley and Sarah Ellison discuss the Murdochs' evidence to MPs on phone hacking.

Yesterday Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks were questioned by MPs about exactly what went wrong at the News of the World. But has their evidence thrown any new light on the phone hacking scandal or made clear who will take responsibility at News International? 

Paul Farrelly, one of the MPs who questioned Rebekah Brooks and the Murdochs during yesterday's select committee, discusses what we have learned about the workings of News International and the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson joins Steve Hewlett from Westminster for an update on the political fall out of the scandal. 

Roger Alton, the executive editor of The Times looks at Rebekah Brooks's assertions that The News of the World was not the only newspaper to use private investigators to source information and discusses what wider investigation could mean for British journalism. 

Media lawyer Duncan Lamont discusses James Murdoch's explanation of why such high payments were made to Gordon Taylor and Max Clifford to settle a case for invasion of privacy. 

And Sarah Ellison, the US based journalist who has been following the News of the World phone hacking scandal for Vanity Fair, joins The Media Show from New York to discuss how the story is developing in the USA.

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