News Corp Brushes Aside Secret Rupert Murdoch Recording

In public statements, Rupert Murdoch has sounded extremely remorseful about the infamous phone hacking scandal. But in a secret recording, made by someone at the Sun, Murdoch came off quite differently.

According to a report by Exaro and the UK’s Channel 4 news, Murdoch explained to arrested staffers that the hacking was “next to nothing” and had been going for many years. When Geoff Webster, the Sun’s deputy editor, suggested they should “hit back back when we can,” Murdoch agreed, saying, “We will; we will.”

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