{"id":280,"date":"2011-06-22T14:13:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=280"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:13:36","slug":"you-probably-didnt-realize-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"You probably didn&#8217;t realize this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s paper in the UK, <em>News of the World<\/em>, was responsible for one of the biggest cases of phone-hacking there&#8217;s ever been outside of NSA wiretapping.<\/p>\n<p>From the appearance of the case (which is now ten years old), practically every person of note in the UK was hacked, their voicemails listened to, etc. \u00a0<a title=\"New twists in the Phone-Hacking Scandal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/news\/press\/news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal-never-ends-131391\" target=\"_blank\">The case just took another turn recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Murdoch property. \u00a0If you think for a minute that Fox isn&#8217;t doing something similar in the USA, I&#8217;ve got five bucks says they are. \u00a0If not them, then certainly the other Murdoch properties (newspapers, etc.) in the empire. \u00a0The NewsCorp properties have no journalistic standards &#8211; and it should be obvious that ethics runs short there as well.<\/p>\n<p>Call it a counter-advert &#8211; and I find it really interesting that this never made a peep in the US press cycle. \u00a0Where&#8217;s that &#8220;liberal media,&#8221; folks?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: \u00a0long gone. \u00a0Been dead since Reagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s paper in the UK, News of the World, was responsible for one of the biggest cases of phone-hacking there&#8217;s ever been outside of NSA wiretapping. From the appearance of the case (which is now ten years old), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}