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News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch is placing a signed ad — written as a letter to readers — in UK newspapers this weekend that includes the headline “We Are Sorry,” The Guardian reports. Here’s the text, followed by a response from Guardian News & Media:
The News Of The World was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself.
We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred.
We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected.
We regret not acting faster to sort things out.
I realize that simply apologising is not enough.Our business was founded on the idea that a free and open press should be a positive force in society. We need to live up to this.
In the coming days, as we take further concrete steps to resolve these issues and make amends for the damage they have caused, you will hear more from us.
Sincerely,
Rupert Murdoch
Now here’s the Guardian’s response:
News International responded to our original revelations about phone-hacking in July 2009 by telling MPs that we had ‘deliberately misled’ the British public.
It has taken two years of subsequent reporting by the Guardian to force the truth out. We are happy to accept News International’s paid-for advertisements apologising for the reality of what our journalism revealed.
The money we receive from News International will be donated to charity.
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Apparently Rupert changed his mind
did anyone REALIZE that they mispelled “Apologizing” in the letter? LMAO
Sometimes in the UK (and Canada and probably Australia), they use an “s” where we use a “z” or they use a “c” where we use an “s.”
Or, when we use “or,” they use “our.”
Is that the only issue you have? While I realize that Murdoch is a big target, I’ll wait for proof of transgressions and I don’t even like the man.
I just believe in due process of law. That is American in case you didn’t know.
Yes, that will make everything all better.
He should be in jail. He knew what was going on. SHAME SHAME SHAME
What gets me is if they have this technology why would they not use it to make money in the stock market? Murdoch owns the WSJ, they can make or break a stock, it’s foolish to think that they would tap into people’s phones to break a story and not tap into people’s phones to make even more money.
You are spot on. Keep in mind that Les Hinton, a man who worked for Rupert Murdoch for 50 years, was running Dow Jones until he resigned this morning. Makes you wonder was they were doing down on Wall Street. Probably using the same techniques to get the inside line on various businesses. And then using that knowledge to commit God knows how many acts of insider trading.
It’s industrial espionage, hope someone calls them on it.
This is like the thief who is terribly, terribly sorry he is going to jail, but not sorry that he stole.
Touché!
“We Are Sorry… we got caught”
Exactamundo.
I don’t know what the law is in the UK but here, what these people did is a crime. This SOB should be in prison along with everybody at that newspaper who was involved.
Our government does it all the time. Every call you and I make is monitored in the name of fighting “Terrorism.” If the news paper was in on fighting “Terrorism” would that make it legal for them? They all should go to jail. I agree.
That apology letter is the biggest joke I’ve ever seen in my life.
The whole company should be shut down if all of the wrongdoing they’ve been accused of turns out to be true.
Yeah, they’re only sorry because they got caught.
He forgot the most important one:
We are sorry we got caught.
F**k you, Rupert!
Getting caught – not the problem.
Losing $$$ – that is what this apology is about.
PR is magic. So disgusting.
What Big Apple Bruce, TV Guy and dee said. Oh and LOL, too.
THERE ALWAYS SORRY,WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT.HOPING FOX NEWS GETS CAUGHT,IM SURE THEY ARE GUILTY OF SOMETHING. WHAT GOES AROUND,COMES AROUND,HOPEFULLY TO BITE THEM IN THE ASS…..
Wow, this is going to be like Enron again. I wonder how long it’ll be before they find find Roger Ailes’ body in a parked car in NYC.
Yeah, Puke-ert…and THAT make it ALLLLLLL better. Your “apology” is hollow and worthless. Just like your soul.
While this is serious wrong doings by this News Corp newspaper in the UK this is almost minute as to what the liberal bias America newspapers has done to their integrity in their failure to report the news of events here in America with honesty and truth instead they resort to misinformation, lies, distortions and thus their title as the unreliable corrupt liberal mainstream media.
Lol!
Is that like when Fox News uses fake footage of crowds to make it seem like more people were at the Glenn Beck Rally than there really were? Or when they put a (D) next to a Republican who gets caught up in a scandal? Or how about the fact that Fox News has decided not to cover this story at all? This is one of the biggest business scandals in modern history so you’d think they’d cover it. You know, being fair and balanced and all.
All we’ve been told for years by idiots like you is that Fox News is the only place to get real news because the liberal media is so evil. Well, guess what, it turns out Rupert Murdoch is the top man in a massive criminal enterprise that spans several continents. And that’s not some liberal talking. That’s Scotland Yard, the F.B.I. and the conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron, who finally grew a pair and threw his benefactor under a bus when the extent of Murdoch’s crimes became apparent.
I thought I’d let you off the hook by not mentioning how we were lied into TWO WARS by Republicans, but then I changed my mind. You guys don’t get a pass on helping to kill thousands of our men and women in uniform, not to mention 250,000 civilians.
Thank you for your posts, Mike. You saved me a lot of typing.
Mike, you are hot. I loved it and you, liberally!
What a cheap shot. If you are so keen on Obama, he’s lied even more than President Clinton. Can you keep politics out of this? How do you even know that Rupert Murdoch is a Republican?
I agree with you. The ONLY news organizations I pay attention to are: Deadline.com, KNX1070 News Radio in Los Angeles (CBS Radio), 60 Minutes (except when Anderson Cooper is on), and Diane Sawyer’s Evening News. I tune the others out.
sorry that he got caught
I continue to believe that Rupert Murdoch is a genius and a richly human man. It’s his errors, tactics, plotting, and coverups that are so heinous and damaging—to the entire world. Is there a way to forgive him, move forward, and make him pay the surreally large debt to society? He cannot merely buy his way out of this gigantic mess. JOHN CAMPBELL
It’s a good thing that all those nice-looking people at Fox News are free to counter reality with “misinformation, lies, distortions” of their own.
I would never otherwise have known that 9/11 never happened (as they said this morning), that our president is a test-tube Kenyan usurper cunningly planted in Hawaii fifty years ago as some sort of Communist master plan, or that Bush’s tax cuts and wars paved the way to our current prosperity and bountiful budget surplus. To Mars!
Why is anyone surprised by this? Murdoch has built his entire on career on deceit and corruption. He’s been using these silly spy v. spy tactics since day one.
I don’t remember anyone saying they were surprised.
its too bad people have no idea all governments are more abusive we need a mole insder to make the expose, this is just everyday practice for law enforcement and government. hackers with no apparent reason other than to harass;
what about all the freaks controling public security cameras uploading images illegally on internet sites.
Everytime a purchase is made with a credit card the information is stolen and resold to marketers;information stolen from the card holder without permission. Lock em up.
Until and unless the Dan Rather apologizes for trying to take down a sitting President with faked memos, you can all go f*ck yourselves…
Just as soon as Bush apologizes for the fake documents from Niger that he used to start the Iraq war. And then trying to out a covert CIA Op whose husband told everyone those documents were fake.
wow must suck to be him now…so many skeletons, bet he end’s up having a fatal ‘medical’ issue
dead moguls tell no tales?
While all this is great theater, at least in the UK there is some acknowledgement that what was done is unacceptable TODAY and they are going out of business. But what happens in the next 10 years, including in the US? The current generation coming of age has little sense of privacy rights, they don’t have a cultural bias against invading people’s private information, voicemail, email, etc., or using false means to get information that they want. I’ve personally witnessed otherwise “nice” 20-somethings hacking into other people’s accounts, but they don’t call it “hacking”. Ten years from now will anyone think that this is wrong?
Hacking is still wrong.
It wasn’t just the hacking, which of course is by itself bad enough. From what I understand, they were tampering with the voicemails of a missing person’s mobile while a huge manhunt was going on. That constitutes a whole range of serious offenses.
The way Murdoch runs his organization, there’s no way he didn’t give at least tacit approval for these felonious actions.
I hope justice is served, fully and unreservedly, on both sides of the pond.