James Murdoch apology for The Sun

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

James Murdoch offers 'full apology' for The Sun newspaper's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster (WATCH VIDEO) - Liverpool FC News - Liverpool FC - Liverpool Daily Post

 

Daily Post so safe to click. Sorry if already posted.

 

 

JAMES Murdoch today offered a 'full apology' for The Sun's coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - and refused to rule out closure of the newspaper should it be implicated in the phone hacking scandal.

 

The News International chairman was appearing before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee for the second time.

 

Steve Rotheram, MP for Liverpool Walton, asked Mr Murdoch: "Is it not the case that you've failed to show the urgency or the will to deal with unethical practices at News International because, quite frankly, successive chief executives since 1989 have believed that they could do whatever they wanted and get away with it?"

 

Mr Rotheram followed up with: "Do you understand the significance of the date I gave - 1989?"

 

Mr Murdoch said: "I think I know where you're going. Are you referring to the Hillsborough coverage in The Sun?"

 

"Of course I am, absolutely," said Mr Rotheram. "That was when The Sun newspaper published lies about the Hillsborough disaster under the banner headline 'The Truth' and the question I'd like you to answer is - did the fact that The Sun got away with telling outrageous lies in 1989 lead News International into believing they could do whatever they wanted without reproach?"

 

Mr Murdoch said: "I'd like to add my full apology to the wrong coverage of that affair. I'd like to add that voice to successive editors of The Sun and chief executives of News International who since that instance have apologised.

 

"It was 22 years ago and I was far away and a much younger person...but I've since looked at it, I'm aware of the concerns and the hurt that it caused and it's something that we're very sorry for and I am as well."

 

Mr Rotheram asked whether The Sun could be closed like the News of the World

 

 

 

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[moof]

Fucking speccy weapon

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

All better.

[Section_31]

An apology only means something if there's a genuine acceptance that you've done something wrong, the Murdochs would throw their own family on a bonfire if they thought it could make them a dollar. A more odious pair of cunts you're unlikely to find anywhere.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I watched it live. Told him to fuck off. He clearly doesn't know a thing about it. Cunt.

[Anny Road]

Front page same size 'We Lied'. or gtf

[Guest davelfc]

Front page same size 'We Lied'. or gtf

 

And they can still gtf if they did that.

[Anny Road]

And they can still gtf if they did that.

 

Shhh don't tell them.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

"It was 22 years ago and I was far away and a much younger person...but I've since looked at it, I'm aware of the concerns and the hurt that it caused and it's something that we're very sorry for and I am as well."

Well, that's alright then.

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Cunt.

 

 

Good line of questioning by Mr. Rotherham, by the way. Fair play to him.

[Fowlers God]

The amount of shit I say to the Mrs so I dont get into trouble is unbelievable and I care about my Mrs. He neither gives a fuck about the lives of the families he has helped diminish or anybody else. Fuck him royally up the bum hole.

[Strontium]

It doesn't mean much, does it? He was 16 years old and living in Australia at the time. It's not him who should be sorry.

[Ian Sea]

An apology now means absolutely fuck all. It's far, far too late.

[Chocoholic]

With so much "I didn't know about this" shit coming from Slimeball Jr, I loved the line from Tom Watson "Mr Murdoch, you must be the only mafia boss who didn't know they were running a criminal enterprise"

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

Front page same size 'We Lied'. or gtf

 

Or "Kelvin McKenzie was a lying fuck and we screwed up by employing him". But, yes - they can gtf

[zigackly]

I'd like to add that voice to successive editors of The Sun and chief executives of News International who since that instance have apologised.

 

He can't help but have a dig. He must know that those qualified apologies were used as veiled attacks on the people of Merseyside and only made the situation worse.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

He can't help but have a dig. He must know that those qualified apologies were used as veiled attacks on the people of Merseyside and only made the situation worse.

 

It's a totally political answer under pressure. He knows an apology during a Parliamentary meeting will not reach millions of unwashed Sun reading masses