The people being exploited by this lousy SOB are average everyday Middle Class people. What do the Plutocrats want to get rid of? That's right the Middle Class. Why because they 'eat up' profits to CEOs and stockholders.
...On top of that, it's also come out that the former editor of the paper, Rebekah Brooks was allegedly warned by Scotland Yard about possible illegal spying taking place via the paper's resources. In that case, she was warned that a reporter was helping two murder suspects spy on the detective investigating them. In other words, we're getting way past just hacking into voicemails and into interfering with police investigations....
This is 'COMPANY CULTURE,' and it is condoned if not demanded by the management of a media network that treats sincere journalism with a grain of salt. So long as 'the news from Murdoch' is marginally correct in the terms that the profession allows, he will exploit anything that can be defined as 'gossip' to benefit and elevate 'the image' of business over the consumer.
I saw the female announcers that are controlled by the control booth today and their decolltage was to include cleavage whenever possible. The stock price to NewsCorp dropped by 3.5% yesterday and the entire Murdoch Media Industry is scrambling in any way possible to 'seduce' their viewing audience to 'hang in there' until they can spin everything in a reasonable fashion to be 'correct' rather than 'moral.'
The Murdoch Media service loves to treat women as trashy, dirty, uncontrolled and an immoral instrument of society whenever they can. They are sexist in their reporting. The focus on military wives that seek another relationship after theit spouses have been killed serving the interest of their country is a prime example of how 'the shock and awe' of exploiting a woman's sexuality for gossip is used chronically by NewsCorp as a method to enhance the viewing of their programming. NewsCorp's culture is one of 'entitlement' and the brash use of spying through electronic media is simply a matter of 'practice' and not morality or discretion.
In Greeat Britain a criminal is guilty until proven innocent. In my opinion, NewsCorp needs to be invested to the highest degree of security and considering the gossip that has occurred in the USA regarding government officials whereby women were used 'in mass' before the story broke requires an investigation by the federal government here as well. This is not an isolated case and no one in the USA needs to be the victim of such criminals that seek to CONTROL political outcomes that favor Plutocrats.