“He got it entirely wrong.” That is Rupert Murdoch’s response to Gordon
Brown’s singular account of his relationship with the Murdoch press. “The Browns were always
friends of ours,” Murdoch added in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, in which he promised
to set the record straight on the “lies uttered in parliament” when he appears before a select committee next Tuesday. It is going to be a moment of the most gripping political theatre.
Murdoch also uses the interview to defend News Corp’s handling of the phone hacking crisis. He concedes that ‘minor mistakes’ have been made, but, fundamentally, all is well with the Kingdom. However, he still feels the need to conduct an independent inquiry into each and every of the allegations, which seems to imply the opposite.
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