Mr. Jayasked 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.
On another level, this connects back to the big question that Jay Rosen asked a couple of weeks ago: what is behind the precipitous decline in public trust in the news media?