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May 2, 2012

Crone, Myler, Hinton and Murdochs must all take a share of the blame for the cover-up which killed the News of the World

By Dominic Ponsford1

If any politician had treated a News International title the way its executives have treated the Commons Culture committee they would have been crucified in print.

So Rupert Murdoch can’t complain about most of the roasting he got yesterday in the long-awaited phone-hacking report.

As the Committee said: “News International has repeatedly stonewalled, obfuscated and misled and only come clean, reluctantly, when no other course of action was sensible and when its wider commercial interests were threatened. In Rupert Murdoch’s own words to the Leveson inquiry, News Corporation in the UK mounted a cover-up.”

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