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Murdoch employs BP strategy

That broadly describes the response of BP to the appalling oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It also describes the new strategy adopted by News International the UK arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to cap the reputational and financial damage from the phone hacking debacle.

Executives at News are engaged they tell me in finding out everything they can about who was hacked by the News of the World, News International's Sunday tabloid, and who at News International knew about the hacking.

Once they have the details, they will offer settlements to those celebs, politicians and others whose privacy may have been invaded to cut out the requirement for huge lawyers' fees.

Any culpable News International executives will be sacked.

They tell me all of this could happen in a matter of weeks.

And, not too subtly, the message will be sent out that if News International's Augean Stables have been cleaned, what about the stench from other media groups? Because, as I've mentioned before on this blog, there was a period at the start of this century when questionable techniques to obtain stories were employed by a number of newspapers.

In this context, it matters that Mark Lewis the solicitor who obtained a whopping settlement fake cartier pink gold love bracelet price from the News of the World over the hacking of the phone of Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association is preparing cases for clients alleging unlawful breach of cartier love bracelet pink gold price replica privacy against media groups other than News International.

I spoke copy cartier love jewelry to Lewis yesterday, and the allegations of his clients are pretty hair raising. Which implies that those other media groups (and they know who they are) should probably be conducting thorough internal reviews, to ascertain just how liable they may turn out to be.

Not to over dramatise, this has all the potential for the newspaper industry to turn into its version of the MPs' expenses scandal.

But back to News International. What are the implications for that vast media business?

Now there are two separate questions of culpability here.

That's primarily what its own internal investigation, which began with the suspension of Ian Edmondson, head of news at the News of the World since 2005, is aimed at discovering.

Now without pre judging the outcome, when Mr Edmondson was suspended a few weeks ago, News International executives told me that they expected Andy Coulson to resign as the prime minister's communications director which he duly did on Friday.

Their prediction that he would go wasn't because they had found e mails or evidence that he was directly implicated in the hacking or, at least, so they said. It will take some time for them to conclude their trawl through Mr Edmondson's e mails and computer files.

But they didn't see how Mr Coulson as the News of the World's editor at the relevant time could stay on in government, once News International cartier yellow gold love bracelet price replica had made its very public demonstration (through the suspension of Mr Edmondson) that it was re examining its earlier statements that it had already found out everything that needed to be found out and had taken all the necessary corrective action.

For what it's worth, colleagues of Rupert Murdoch tell me he knew nothing about the hacking. He's in London this week and say executives is hopping mad about the whole thing. He is so angry, he may even cancel News Corporation's annual jaunt to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

His son, James who runs all of News Corp's European and Asian operations is also in the clear, because he was chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting when the hacking was taking place.

But there is a separate question that shareholders in News Corporation will want James Murdoch to answer which is why he didn't order this comprehensive internal review much earlier.

Rather than paying Mr Taylor to keep his mouth shut about the whole affair (the settlement included a confidentiality clause), some would argue that James Murdoch would have done better to find out quite how systemic hacking had become in his organisation, and taken whatever remedial action was necessary.

Update 15:34: I am told by a News International insider that investigators are processing "tens of thousands" of e mails sent and received by Ian Edmondson which is why the probe is taking a while.

But News International hopes to have completed its evaluation of what happened and who (if anyone) was to blame within days though probably not this week.

If the investigators do find further evidence relating to unlawful invasion of individuals' privacy, News International says it will pass such material to the police.

Comment number 1. At 09:46 24th Jan 2011, John_from_Hendon wrote: Robert wrote:

if you sup with the devil and/or his agents/employees a little or indeed a lot, rubs off! The Metropolitan Police are presently learning the truth of this adage.

Being kind to the aged (80 this year) Rupert Murdoch born an Australian (now an American): it may well be true that he is 'hopping mad' about 'phone hacking gate' but a general cannot wash his hands of the actions of his privates! (Oh, that is a very 'Sun' turn of phrase sorry).

His position in media ownership is irredeemable (BSyB deal is lost!), but he could perhaps devote the rest of his life to good works.
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