{"id":2159,"date":"2012-02-29T20:07:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T20:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2012-02-29T20:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T20:07:34","slug":"one-murdoch-down-one-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"One Murdoch Down, One To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the news<\/a>, James Murdoch has decided to resign from his post as the head of News International. About time! But :-<\/p>\n

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  1. Why was he allowed to resign rather than being fired ?<\/li>\n
  2. Why is he being allowed to take up a cushy number with News Corp ? It hardly seems much of a punishment for him to resign from a job in an industry he dislikes only to take another job in an industry that he likes in what is effectively the same corporate empire.<\/li>\n
  3. Why didn’t he go ages ago ?<\/li>\n
  4. And when is Rupert Murdoch going ?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The two Murdochs (and their countless minions at News International) were the people in charge of a corporate empire that allowed one part of it to break the law not just occasionally but routinely<\/em>\u00a0for stories that were not in the public interest (in the sense of stories that the public should<\/em>\u00a0know rather than just what they want to know). Whether or not they knew what was happening, they set the tone for a corporation that apparently valued results over ethical behaviour.<\/p>\n

    They are responsible<\/em>\u00a0for allowing such a corporate culture to grow unchallenged for at least a decade.<\/p>\n

    Did they know what was going on ? Perhaps not – particularly in the case of Rupert Murdoch, but they should<\/em>\u00a0have known. And in the case of James Murdoch, it seems probable that if he did not know what was going on, he intentionally<\/em>\u00a0avoided knowing.<\/p>\n

    Both should go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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