News Limited Scandal
Recently, the most talked about news is The News Ltd Scandal. You might wonder what this is. This scandal is all about the newspaper company called News Limited. News Limited is the largest media-related company which has its branches all over the world employing more than 8000 staff along with 3000 journalists. This media empire belongs to Rupert Murdoch. News Limited is an Australian company controlling the majority of the newspapers in Australia. It distributes metropolitan newspapers to many cities like Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. It has employment websites as well as real estate websites. It owns digital media too. News Limited is owned completely by News Corp Limited. It even trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
News Limited expanded its holdings to the United States of America and Britain along with Australia. It offers a website for opinions from a large number of journalists in Australia and it has a website for multimedia and stories too. It is basically a phone-hacking scandal which brought out alot of hard questions. This company has been accused of hacking the phones of victims who are dead to obtain information for its newspaper. People started questioning about this hacking since it is atrocious to deal with this at the time of grieving. This led to the closure of this company since it had to answer so many hard questions before the committee members of the parliament in Britain.
John Hartigan, chief executive and chairman of the company News Limited said he would be happy to answer the questions asked by the people. Hartigan refused the accusation that it has hacked victim’s phones in Australia. In the meantime, Malcolm Turnbull who is a spokesman and a former journalist also said that phone hacking has not been done in Australia. The phone hacking scandal of a murdered British school girl is boiling again. Even though Rupert Murdoch has denied his responsibility in this scandal, many newspapers carry letters of apology with the signature of Rupert Murdoch. Nowadays the media fails to do their duty and gives inappropriate and cooked stories to its readers to mislead them to believe their news. They intervene in the privacy of the public to the core and behave in a very demeaning way. They change the perspective of the readers by giving wrong news.
In the United States of America also, there is doubt that the journalists of the News Limited Company might have tried to hack the phones of the victims of the 911 tragedy which shook the world. The victims also include dead troops’ families, politicians, celebrities, victims of terrorist attacks, and murderers. The Head of News International and chief executive of News International have also resigned due to this scandal. This scandal has brought out the relation between police and the journalists since some police authorities have their part in providing the phone numbers and other details of the victims to the journalists. Some police personnel are also criticized in this scandal. This has questioned the ethical standards and culture of the media. The Media’s duty is to provide us with facts, protect the people, and to create awareness of the problems. But if the media itself does not follow its ethics, then it is really difficult to come to a proper judgment. We should go into depth and find the people responsible for this. It is our responsibility to bring out the truth. Let us stop more scandals.
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