Rupert Murdoch Admits To Phone-Hacking ‘Cover-Up’

Rupert Murdoch on Thursday claimed that employees at the now-defunct News of the World tried to cover up the phone-hacking practices at the newspaper. Murdoch said he was “misinformed and shielded” from what was going on at the paper, The Guardian reports. “One or two very strong characters” kept information from James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, who at the time were executives at the News of the World, Rupert Murdoch added.