News Corp Intercepted Wiretapped Telephone Calls of Ex-Employee

This is the inevitable implication of this report in the Guardian. It indicates that Murdoch and Son were wiretapping former employees and rival media companies. I’m not talking about just stealing voicemail messages, I’m talking about recording live wiretapped telephone conversations of executives from rival companies, then “leaking” an edited excerpt of one of them to the BBC, in order to damage the rival company. The BBC ran the illegally obtained wiretap audio on the air.