Getting away with Murdoch

The current issue (4 May – 17 May) of Private Eye is essential reading for anyone interested in Rupert Murdoch, News Corp and the Leveson inquiry – which is most of us. The Eye has really gone to town on this. Only a small sample is online. It begins:

RUPERT THE BARE-FACED...

“We have never pushed our commercial interests in our newspapers.” So said Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry, speaking under oath. We must assume that either the DPP will prosecute him for perjury… or that incidents recorded in the Eye over the last 25 years have been complete coincidences.

Read on here. It’s devastating – and funny.