The News Corp tabloid The Sun has clarified it's source for publishing the story about Gordon Brown's son who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, though it hardly excuses the newspaper for an extreme violation of private information. Just because they did not hack his medical records hardly excuses the inexcusable publishing of the story. It was nobodies business other than the Brown family. Just as the infamous Clinton-Lewinski affair that Fox used extensively, it is of no concern to anyone outside of those people involved.
If people like Murdoch want to flog stories like that to titillate for a fast buck then they should expect the same treatment now that they are the center of the story. Murdoch doesn't appear to be showing much remorse for the disgusting and possibly illegal behavior of his media empire. If he had an ounce of decency he would have cleaned house in the executive offices and apologized for the stories that have been published. The Guardian:
In his first interview about the crisis that has engulfed his media empire, Murdoch said some MPs' comments on the scandal were "total lies" and singled out Brown for criticism over the former prime minister's accusation that News International was guilty of "law-breaking on an industrial scale".
The media baron said Brown "got it entirely wrong" when he alleged that Murdoch's British papers had used "known criminals" to get access to his personal information when Labour was in power.
"The Browns were always friends of ours" until the Sun withdrew its support for Labour before the last general election, he told the Wall Street Journal, his flagship US paper.
