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One of the few values Rupert Murdoch and I share is the importance of a free press.
I’m sure we would both agree that it is an unimpeachable right, especially in a day and age when few pure freedoms still exist in this country. We recognize that, if we lose free expression in the media, we will have lost everything.
And, perhaps most important, we understand that in the quest to protect this freedom, boundaries must be pushed.
The way in which we push those boundaries, however, is where we differ. I test limits by
publishing controversial material and paying people who are willing to step forward and expose political hypocrisy.
Murdoch’s minions, on the other hand, pushed limits by allegedly engaging in
unethical or criminal activity: phone hacking, bribery, coercing criminal behavior and betraying the trust of their readership. If News Corp.’s reported wrongdoings are true, what Murdoch’s company has been up to does not just brush against boundaries — it blows right past them."