Select committee chair: Phone hacking does not taint News Corp

Tuesday, 5 July 2011 12:00 AM

John Whittingdale, the chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee, tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme to beware tainting all of News Corporation despite their ownership of News International and thus the News of the World:

"You cannot necessarily condemn the entire of News Corp just because of the actions of some individuals in another part of the organisation.

"News International is a part of News Corp but it's a different part. News Corp is a global enterprise and I don't think one should condemn the entire organisation because something very clearly was going wrong in the News of the World.

"We were told that a thorough investigation had been carried out which had produced no evidence. Now, even at that time we expressed considerable doubts as to whether or not that investigation was thorough.

"I think now we can almost certainly conclude that it wasn't, and those are questions which still need to be addressed."
 

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