Brown hits back at media ethics inquiry

On Monday 11 June, Brown attacked Murdoch’s media empire at the Leveson inquiry, set up to investigate Britain’s media ethics.

In April, Murdoch accused Brown of threatening him to launch a war on his media empire in a telephone conversation because his newspaper The Sun had switched its support from Labour to the Conservatives in 2009.

After the phone hacking scandal in Britain came to a head and Murdoch’s The News of the World admitted to hacking phones of prominent people, the Leveson Inquiry was set up to investigate British media ethics and ties between British officials and the country’s media.

So far, eleven people have been arrested over links with the phone hacking scandal and the Metropolitan Police have referred five cases to prosecutors.

Other British politicians such Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party, John Major, British Prime Minister from 1990 until 1997, and Prime Minister David Cameron are to be grilled at the inquiry into media ethics.

Cameron’s “cozy” ties with Murdoch and his former newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks have raised serious concerns among the public as Cameron himself admitted: “I think we all, on both sides of this house, did a bit too much cozying up to Mr. Murdoch”.

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