Hacked Off

"If that had happened I would know about it."  Rupert Murdoch on a rival UK newspaper report on how Murdoch's empire struck back by settling UK legal cases to avoid revealing illegal hacking into prominent politicians' cell phones - among the vics, the deputy prime minister.

The New York Times gleefully picked up the UK Guardian's bombshell of $1.6 mil in payoffs, and linking Murdoch to FOX News.