24-08-2012, 16:34
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Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19355141
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Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth has used a speech to voice her support for the BBC and urge the media to focus on morals as well as profit.
The TV producer sought to distance herself from brother James, an executive at News Corp, which has been embroiled in the phone hacking scandal.
Ms Murdoch delivered the keynote speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
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Ms Murdoch also criticised the "dearth of integrity" highlighted in the Leveson inquiry into press standards.
She said the exposure of the "sometimes self-serving relationships" between great pillars of society such as police, politics, media and banking served as a reminder that "with great power comes responsibility".
Referring to the Leveson Inquiry, she said the result should be the "fierce protection of a free press and light touch media regulation".
She added that it was hard to argue for this because of the "unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions".
"Sadly, the greatest threats to our free society are too often from the enemies within," she said.
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Distancing herself from News Corp? Not quite sure what to make of the speech.. 
Interesting though.
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