Rupert Murdoch
On The Media
More Questions for News Corp
Friday, November 11, 2011
This week, News Corp executive James Murdoch went before British parliament for a second round of questioning about the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed the Murdoch media empire. Brooke talks to Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian newspaper, which first broke news of the scandal. He fills us in about how the story has metastasized since it first hit the press last summer.
On The Media
Muted U.S. Public Reaction to British Tabloid Scandal
Friday, July 22, 2011
The U.S. media has been fascinated with the British tabloid phone hacking scandal and its widespread fallout. But according to polling by the Pew Research Center, the public doesn’t share the media’s obsession. Brooke speaks to Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohut, who says that when the public was asked which story they were following most closely, only 4 percent chose the phone hacking story.

