From Newsday:
BRITAIN: More were hacked, police say
Scotland Yard increased its estimate Thursday of potential phone hacking victims of the tabloid News of the World from 4,000 to 5,795 people. That hundreds of potential victims had been missed is a further embarrassment for London's police force, whose reputation has been tarnished by its failure to get to grips with the scandal. Two of the force's senior officers have resigned amid criticism they ignored evidence of systematic wrongdoing at the defunct newspaper, which belonged to Rupert Murdoch's media empire. The Metropolitan Police said it had identified 5,795 names in material collected from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the center of the scandal.
http://www.newsday.com/...
And News Corp.'s head of human resources since 2007 and James Murdoch's BFF, resigned. From The New York Times:
Beryl Cook, News Corporation’s chief human resources officer and a trusted colleague of James Murdoch, resigned on Thursday, the company said, and will return to the Asia Pacific region to be closer to her family. Jeff Mook, senior vice president for global compensation, will succeed her.
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Ms. Cook was a confidante of James Murdoch, News Corporation’s deputy chief operating officer, when the two worked together at the British broadcaster BSkyB, according to one person with knowledge of the situation who would only discuss the matter anonymously. Ms. Cook has held her current post in the company’s New York headquarters since 2007.
In other Murdoch news, he's still trying to topple the Australian Labor government with b.s. articles about a possible coup. From RTT News:
Senior members of Australia's ruling Labor Party on Thursday denied press reports about an alleged move by party's senior ranks to replace Prime Minister Julia Gillard with her predecessor Kevin Rudd.
Their response came after News Corp-owned Daily Telegraph reported quoting an unnamed party source that Kevin Rudd had been advised by senior Labor politicians to challenge the leadership of Gillard within weeks.
http://www.rttnews.com/...
An Australian Senator, Doug Cameron, reacted to the bogus coup story by calling Murdoch's Media Company "a threat to democracy":
http://www.abc.net.au/...
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