Posted by From Bloomberg:
Charlie Beckett, director of the media institute Polis at the London School of Economics, said Rupert Murdoch’s answers were “either a brilliant act or he’s lost it.’’
About what it was like at a News Corp. newspaper, from one of the fallen, disgraced, or now dead (Sean Hoare):
Explaining why he had spoken out, he told me: “I want to right a wrong, lift the lid on it, the whole culture. I know, we all know, that the hacking and other stuff is endemic. Because there is so much intimidation. In the newsroom, you have people being fired, breaking down in tears, hitting the bottle.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?pagewanted=1