There are several methods of dealing with a much-publicized scandal, some less advisable than others. Issuing a public apology for mistakes or poor judgment? Pretty much always a good idea. Holding individuals responsible for their roles and dealing with them accordingly? Usually works out pretty well. Publishing a tacky, potentially offensive cartoon making light of serious allegations AND life-threatening poverty? Oddly enough, that rarely ever works.

And, yet, that’s precisely what the Times of London did when it ran an editorial cartoon, marked “Priorities…”,depicting three starving, ethnically ambiguous children sitting nude in the sand. One of the doe-eyed children looks mournfully out at the viewer, cradling his distended stomach and announcing that he has had “a bellyful of phone-hacking.” Any guesses at to what company owns the Times of London?

Yesterday, the testimony of Rupert and James Murdoch was briefly interrupted when a man attempted (and failed) to throw a shaving cream “pie” into the elder mogul’s face. Many have described the attempted pieing harshly, calling it “stupid,” “pointless,” and “a waste of time” (these aren’t direct quotes of anyone in particular, I’m just making an educated guess that someone somewhere said those things) while the perpetrator himself, a comedian and activist named Jonnie Marbles, has written an explanation in The Guardian in which he says he “did it for all the people who couldn’t.” That’s a nice sentiment, but many people (again, educated guess) are wondering just what exactly he thought was going to happen. Well, Mediaite is proud to bring you a glimpse into an alternate world where Jonnie Marbles had indeed pied Rupert Murdoch.

Stephen Colbert discussed the ongoing News Corp. phone hacking scandal with David Carr from the New York Times and both had a few good laughs at the expense of Rupert Murdoch and Fox News. After having to endure a hearing and a near-miss pie in the face, Colbert mockingly pleaded on behalf of Murdoch, “leave [...]

A day after Rupert Murdoch‘s appearance before a committee of the British Parliament looking into the phone hacking scandal that has surrounded Murdoch’s News Corp., MSNBC’s Martin Bashir told Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that Murdoch had a long history of cozy relationships with politicians who “fawned” over him.

CNN host Piers Morgan defended himself on Twitter Tuesday morning against suggestions that he had any involvement with phone hacking while he was editor of recently shuttered News of the World, but that didn’t stop the scandal from jumping to his cushy entertainment gig as a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Fellow judge Howie [...]

CNN’s Piers Morgan stayed relatively quiet for the first few weeks of the News Corp. scandal, but when questions started to arise about his role in phone hacking during his work as a tabloid editor at two separate papers (one of them Murdoch-owned), he began a pushback against these rumors. He denied being involved in any wrongdoing on his show last night, but it took a member of Parliament calling him out by name to get Morgan to aggressively defend himself and his reputation.

On this morning’s edition of CNBC’s Squawk Box, discussion turned to the News of the World phone hacking scandal that has embroiled News Corp. when host Joe Kernen took an interesting tack. His claim: that some on the left see a culture of corruption infesting other News Corp. entities. In Kernen’s view, “liberals think that [...]

Glenn Beck tackled the News Corp. phone hacking scandal on his radio show today in an entertaining discussion that somehow managed to turn the death of the phone hacking whistleblower and unfair attacks on Fox News into a sarcastic conclusion that Vladimir Putin is actually behind it all and that GBTV might be the last hope for a truly free press.

During today’s explosive parliamentary hearing, News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch was asked why he won’t resign from his position in the midst of News of the World‘s phone hacking scandal.

CNN’s Piers Morgan took to Twitter this afternoon, defending himself after a British member of Parliament suggested during the question of James and Rupert Murdoch that Morgan had admitted to phone hacking. “That MP just claimed I boasted in my book of using phone-hacking for a scoop,” Morgan tweeted to his 974,000 followers. “Complete nonsense. Just read the book.” Morgan’s memoir, The Insider: Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade, discusses his time as a British tabloid editor–including working as editor of Murdoch’s now-closed News of the World–and has been singled out by a UK blogger for a reference to the ease of phone hacking. Morgan says he never described actually doing so. “I’ve never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any stories based on the hacking of a phone.”

Rupert Murdoch‘s testimony to a British Parliamentary nearly completed without incident until the very end of the question, when it appears that the News Corp. CEO was attacked in some way by an individual in attendance. The jarring interruption startled nearly everyone involved in the proceedings that had evolved into a soporific tone.

One of the biggest issues at the heart of Rupert Murdoch‘s testimony to the British Parliamentary Committee of Culture, Media and Sport is identifying what sort of culpability the News Corp. CEO had over the editorial management of the now defunct News of the World operation in light of the phone hacking scandal and alleged cover-up that has followed.

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and his son James are currently testifying to the British Parliamentary Committee of culture, media and sport. As the proceedings began, James Murdoch made an opening statement expressing earnest contrition over the phone hacking scandal and alleged corruption that has embroiled the entire News Corp. media conglomerate. Shortly after the opening statement, Murdoch the senior interrupted to aver once simple sentence, “this is the most humble day of my life.”

Adweek‘s Michael Wolff, who wrote a biography of Rupert Murdoch insists that the Murdoch who signed full page apology letters in U.K. newspapers ahead of his testimony today before a panel of the British Parliament is not apologizing for the actions of a few “rogue employees,” but rather, for what his company “is.” On Bloomberg TV, Wolff said “this is not an aberration, this is what his newspapers have always done.”

Last Friday morning Fox and Friends‘ Steve Doocy interviewed a media consultant to ostensibly discuss the News of the World phone hacking scandal and quickly conflated other instances of corporations getting hacked with the current story embroiling News Corp. Last night Stephen Colbert “celebrated” this creative defense of Fox News’ parent company focusing on how the only similarity in the examples cited was that they shared the same word, or that both corporations were “victims of being in the same sentence with the word ‘hacked.’”

After first declining an invitation to British Parliament to discuss the growing scandal surrounding the alleged phone hacking and corruption charges that are currently embroiling his media conglomerate, News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is testifying to Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee. While all cable news outlets will be covering this live, you can watch the drama unfold in real time via Live Stream right here on Mediaite.

News Corp. CEO and Chairman Rupert Murdoch is appearing before a British Parliamentary committee to discuss the growing phone hacking scandal and charges of corruption and cover-up that has already led to the arrest of some high profile executives and the resignation of London’s top cops.

For the first time since the phone hacking scandal brought down News Corp’s News of the World–and threatened the media empire of Rupert Murdoch–CNN’s Piers Morgan has taken time on his nightly show to address the scandal, and his own role as editor of News of the World. “I worked as editor of News of the World sixteen years ago, from 1994 to 1995…for the record, I do not believe that any story we published…was ever gained in an unlawful manner.”

Murdoch made Morgan the youngest editor in the News of the World’s 168-year history, when Morgan was just 28. He left that paper to become editor of the rival Daily Mirror, and said his experience working for–an

CNBC is reporting tonight that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch–who’s due to testify in the News of the World phone hacking scandal before the British Parliament Tuesday–is “considering” stepping down as the company’s CEO. He would be replaced, CNBC reports, by COO Chase Carey.

Bloomberg, citing individuals “with knowledge of the situation” describes the elevation of Carey as something News Corp., not Murdoch, is considering.

The hacking collective LulzSec (or Lulz Security) has hacked a News International-owned website and have published a fake Sun article about Rupert Murdoch’s death of a drug overdose.

Well, on the upside, Fox & Friends will now be able to tell the difference between phone hacking and being hacked.

The Guardian is reporting that Sean Hoare, a former News of the World reporter who was first to allege that former editor Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead. “Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, is said to have been found dead at his Watford home,” reports the Guardian‘s Amelia Hill, James Robinson, Caroline Davies.

Rachel Maddow weighed in on the interesting predicament Fox News finds itself in given that their boss, Rupert Murdoch and the News Corp. hacking scandal is headline news. Maddow singled out the coverage of the story by Fox & Friends as something she found particularly laughable.

Last week Fox News’ media criticism show barely mentioned the media scandal involving the news network’s parent company, News Corp. This week Fox News Watch more than made up for it, devoting two segments to the controversy, with Alan Colmes in particular pulling no punches in discussing the details of the story and the potential involvement of his boss, Rupert Murdoch.

As much of a foregone conclusion as it was that Bill Maher and panel would weigh in in the now-infamous Bachmann Christian counseling clinic tonight, it was equally certain they’d discuss the woes of Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World paper, which culminated today in the resignation of the paper’s editor, Rebekah Brooks. The panel shed no tears for Murdoch.

As News Corp. executives continue to drop like flies all around Rupert Murdoch, one of the key players in the widespread phone hacking scandal is taking legal action against the Metropolitan police. Actor Hugh Grant, who secretly recorded a tabloid reporter admitting to phone hacking several months ago, is suing the Metropolitan police over their potential involvement in the hacking cases.