{"id":73158,"date":"2011-07-09T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T08:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/09\/le-scandale-murdoch-a-global-crisis\/"},"modified":"2011-07-09T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T08:50:45","slug":"le-scandale-murdoch-a-global-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/09\/le-scandale-murdoch-a-global-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Le scandale Murdoch : \u201ca global crisis<\/em>\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le scandale Murdoch : a global crisis<\/em> ?<\/h4>\n

Le scandale Murdoch-News of the World<\/em> (NotW) ne cesse de prendre des proportions de plus en plus gigantesques. Le terme, effectivement, a sa place, avec la menace que le scandale, de londonien, ne s’\u00e9tende aux USA et n’enflamme toute la sph\u00e8re anglo-saxonne (anglosph\u00e8re), d\u00e9couvrant de fa\u00e7on publique et sensationnelle les extraordinaires dimensions de la dictature de Rupert Murdoch sur le syst\u00e8me de la communication anglo-saxon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe 7 juillet 20911<\/a>, le Guardian<\/em> a publi\u00e9 une analyse des possibilit\u00e9s que ce scandale s’\u00e9tende aux USA, o\u00f9 Murdoch poss\u00e8de un impressionnant groupe de presse et d’influyence. La brutalit\u00e9 de son intervention avec la fermeture du NotW ce dimanche marque aussi bien une mesure pour bloquer le scandale \u00e0 Londres qu’un risque que ce scandale ne d\u00e9borde aux USA, \u00e0 cause des effets secondaires autant que des r\u00e9v\u00e9lations que cette mesure risque d’entra\u00eener dans un effet boule de neige. (Michael Wolff, biographe de Murdoch, observe : \u00abMurdoch’s bet is that closing News of the World will contain the scandal, but the sheer extreme measure he has taken just shows how difficult this is going to be.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tExtraits de l’article du Guardian<\/em> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abNews Corporation’s US holdings including the Fox cable TV channels, 20th Century Fox, Dow Jones which publishes the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post account for a dominant part of its more than $32bn (\u00a320bn) global annual revenue, and its shares are listed in New York. Its UK newspapers by contrast form a relatively tiny fraction of its wealth.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbUntil this week, the phone hacking story was largely ignored by the US media and treated as a local British matter. But after the Guardian revealed that NoW had hacked into the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and those of relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, the scandal has caught the imagination of the public and been intensively covered in US newspapers and TV outlets. Profiting on the backs of dead children and soldiers has resonated with American readers in a way that previous stories had not, says Sarah Ellison, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. People are starting to see this as a level of corruption that lacks humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe phone hacking scandal had already begun to reach high up within the American core of Murdoch’s media empire before the Milly Dowler revelations. Last month, Lawrence Jacobs, News Corporation’s top lawyer, resigned after more than 15 years with the company. Though he is not known to have had any direct role in the scandal, he was Murdoch’s main legal adviser throughout the period in which laws were broken.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbA further indication of the heights to which the scandal is reaching within Murdoch’s US headquarters is that he has entrusted two experienced lawyers now sitting on News Corporation’s board of directors in New York with key roles in the handling of the crisis. Joel Klein, who until January was in charge of New York city’s schools system, the largest in the US, and who now runs News Corp’s education programme, has been asked to provide important oversight and guidance in the investigation into what happened at NoW. Viet Dinh, like Klein a former assistant attorney general of the US, has been charged with keeping the board informed of any developments.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbUS media executives told the Guardian that Klein and Dinh had advised Murdoch that he needed to take drastic action to contain the phone hacking problems within the UK and prevent it spilling into<\/em> a global crisis.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbOne question that is likely to persist beyond the NoW’s closure is the extent of the involvement of Les Hinton, the chief executive of Dow Jones. He was the executive chairman of Murdoch’s UK newspaper arm, News International, between 1995 and 2007 when he moved to New York. He told the British parliament on two occasions in 2007 and 2009 that the hacking had been limited to just one rogue reporter, a claim now known to be untrue. In his statement explaining the NoW closure, James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, said: The paper made statements to Parliament without being in the full possession of the facts. This was wrong. The comment appears to apply in part to Hinton.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’activit\u00e9 de Murdoch aux USA, outre le journalisme de sous-sol, avec pressions, corruption, extorsions d’information et chantage, bref tout ce qui sous-tend la puissance et l’influence aujourd’hui, touche \u00e9videmment la sph\u00e8re politique. Murdoch est le parrain du mouvement neocon<\/em> et de tout ce qui soutient cette fameusepolitique<\/a> de l’id\u00e9ologie et de l’instinct. L’article d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9 du Guardian<\/em> pr\u00e9cise : \u00abThe involvement of a News Corporation subsidiary in illegal practices is particularly sensitive within the US given the importance of Murdoch as a political player. Most of the Republican candidates running for the White House in 2012 have until recently been on the payroll of the right-wing Fox News channel, while Murdoch donated $1m of News Corporation money to the Republicans in last November’s mid-term elections.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPolly Toynbee, du m\u00eame Guardian<\/em>, le 8 juillet 2011<\/a>, signale dans le m\u00eame sens les pistes qui s’ouvrent pour une extension du scandale aux USA, avec la possible mise en uvre de la redoutable machinerie juridique US :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abMeanwhile, US law may enter the fray. A former Labour cabinet minister has alerted attention to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes an American company (News Corp) liable for colossal fines if any employee bribes a foreign official (the Met police) even if no one at head office knew. What’s more, any whistleblower inside the company (sacked News of the World reporters), stands to win a percentage of that fine if they report acts of bribery.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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