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¶ … ethical or unethical ground rules manifested in the situation (ethical theory that is broken) as well as which ethics theories should be applied to remedy the situation.
The Murdoch incident involved various leading British newspapers, specifically the 'News of the World' but also other tabloids all published by News International, all of which were a subsidiary of News corporation .The owner of News corporation was Rupert Murdoch hence the alias The Murdoch phone hacking scandal. Essentially, employees of the corporation were accused of employing improper means in their endeavor to gain new stories such as telephone hacking and bribing police officers during the years 2005-2007, and their targets for these stories almost always involved celebrities, members of the Royal family, and politicians. On 6 July, British prime minister David Cameron announced that a special investigation commission would investigate the incident. Lord Justice Levesonas named chairman of the inquiry on 13 July with the mission to look into the phone hacking and police bribery whilst a separate inquiry was set up to establish and set up conventions for directing culture and ethics of the wider British media. The Judge also abolished existence of the Press Complaints Commission. These proceedings resulted in resignation of several prominent individuals foremost amongst whom were Dow Jones chief executive...
Murdoch and his son James were also arraigned before a parliamentary media committee (Davies, 2008).
The Murdoch incident influenced the U.S.A. In that the Federal Bureau of Investigation in that country launched its own investigation with the objective of ascertaining whether the United States News Corporation (that directs multiple national news channels) improperly interfered with the voicemails of victims of the 2001 terrorist attack and, in other ways performed incidents of phone hacking. This was followed by an inquiry later on in July into whether or not the company had violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which includes bribing of police personnel (O'Carroll, 2011).
The Murdoch incident also impacted Australia in that the Australian Green party called for investigation into its own national News Corporation called News Limited (O'Carroll, 2011).
What ethical deficiency, (what did the Company lack-…i.e... check and balance system / no ethical policy etc.) or conflict that brought it about the unethical conduct?
Apparently, the non-existence of guidelines for media conduct instigated…
References
Davies, N. (8 July 2009). Trail of hacking and deceit under nose of Tory PR chief. The Guardian (UK). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-newspapers-phone-hacking. Retrieved 8/23/2011
O'Carroll, L. (20 July 2011). Phone-hacking inquiry extended to include broadcasters and social media. The Guardian (UK). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/20/phone-hacking-inquiry-broadcasters-social-media.
Straubhaar, Joseph, LaRose, R., & Davenpor, Lt. (2010). Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology. 6th ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth
Heawood, J. (13 July 2011). A new manifesto for media ethics.. The Guardian. UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/13/media-ethics-investigation-david-cameron.
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