Heh.

Nice recap of the phone-hacking scandal by @nybooks:

"The News of the World staff reportedly greeted Ms. Brooks' statements in their newsroom with hoots and derision. One would expect no less. Britain now apparently faces a period without coverage of vicars with knickers before Murdoch launches the Sun on Sunday to cover the screws of the world.

Murdoch has been brought to bay by one great British newspaper, the Guardian. It devoted two years to the task. It did what frightened politicians and cowed opinion leaders dared not do -- it defied the power and the money of the Alien. Ironic, that Murdoch seems about to lose what would have been his crown jewel because he was never able to restrain the low tastes and trashy standards that wounded my newspaper in one of his drive-by shootings."

Don’t Leak to the Wall Street Journal’s New Wikileaks Knockoff

RT @mashable Murdoch's Next Step: Hiding UK Times Articles.. #google #rupert-murdoch #search-engines

A unique business model crafted by Murdoch for Murdoch, combining his two professional passions: publishing printed newspapers and parlaying those newspapers into political and financial power. The fact that News Corporation loses a great deal of money on its flagship newspapers doesn’t necessarily mean this is not a profitable formula. It just depends on how you measure profits.

Murdoch's simultaneous battle against Google is codenamed "Project Alesia, named after Julius Caesar's victorious siege of the Gallic forces in 52 B.C." Insiders say he just doesn't get the "wild west" of the digital world — that it's too fluid for him to understand.