When Mr. Barry hinted that he deserved partial credit in a British magazine in 1997 and London's Sunday Times followed up with a nasty jab at Mr. Norman, the theme's composer sued the paper, and the jury decided in his favor.
Mr. Jay asked Mr. Murdoch if he had a "cavalier" attitude to corporate governance in relation to phone hacking and added that there had been a "consistent theme" of a coverup at the company about the extent of the paper's wrongdoing, which first publicly surfaced in 2006.