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July 17, 2011 01:45 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0AX-MbAPIyw/fox-friends-lash-out.html
Fox & Friends lash out at News of the World critics
People keep accusing Fox of running a blackout on the bad news befalling Rupert Murdoch's news empire. Not true! In fact, it just had on a PR man, Bob Dilenschneider, to explain how News of the World is the real victim, subjected to an inexplicable 'piling on' by its enemies. Bob: The NOTW is a hacking scandal, it can't be denied. But the real issue is, why are so many people piling on at this point? We know it's a hacking scandal, shouldn't we get beyond it and deal with the issue of hacking? Citicorp has been hacked into, Bank of America has been hacked into, American Express has been hacked into, insurance companies have been hacked into, we've got a serious hacking problem in this country, and the government's obviously been hacked into, 24,000 files. So we've got to figure out a way to deal with this hacking problem. Host: The company has come forward to say that it happened a long time ago, at a tabloid, in London, someone did something really bad and the company reacted. They closed the newspaper, all those people got fired, even though 99 percent of them didn't do anything. Bob: And if I'm not mistaken. Murdoch, who owns it, has apologized, but for some reason, the public and the media going over this, again and again. Host: The piling on! Bob: It's a little bit too much. The bigger issue is really hacking and how we as the public going to protect our privacy and deal with it. I would also say, by the way, Citigroup, great bank. Bank of America, great bank. Are they getting the same attention for hacking that took place less than a year ago, that News Corp is getting today. [They recap other news; China, martians, debt default, etc.] Host: ... We're teetering on default, and what to they do? They're talking about this. Bob: ... and we're dealing with something that happened in London over a decade ago. I don't quite understand it. Indeed not. But I'm happy to explain it to you, Bob. Murdoch's newspaper, the News of the World, was the perpetrator in its hacking scandal, whereas the Pentagon and the banks were victims in theirs. Also, whereas the Pentagon hack is claimed to be an example of state-sponsored espionage conducted by foreign spies, the News of the World's 'hacking' was a simple caller ID spoofing trick used to listen in on a murdered child's voicemail messages; one among countless similar events so exploited. Calling it hacking at all is a stretch; systematically exploiting voicemail's lack of security isn't quite the same thing as the social or technical engineering to which 'hacking' traditionally applies. In any case, you can't pretend these are the same class of computer security issue, unless you're happy being completely ignorant of the crisis management issues on which you are being presented as an expert. Furthermore, the fact that it was more than "someone did something really bad" and did not end "over a decade ago" are the reasons the scandal won't die. These were indeed the specific lies, told to investigators, that have mpw ensnared Murdoch executives. The criminal conduct's widespread nature is why three former editors of the newspaper (forgive me if I have lost count!) have been arrested. Fox's smarmy whitewashing of its sister company's escapades will get a lot of flack, but don't miss how Bob embodies an approach to PR that's failed Murdoch so spectacularly these last few weeks: "All the right things have been done from a crisis point of view," he says, so immaculately clueless that you have to wonder if Murdoch's fall, such as it is, was precipitated by spending too much time sat in rooms full of Bob. Video Link [Newshounds] More evidence about News Corp. on News Corp. [Washington Post via The Atlantic]...
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