Mediagazer: Lawyers and PR experts drill Rupert Murdoch before parliamentary grilling (Daniel Boffey/Guardian)

8:15 AM ET, July 17, 2011

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Daniel Boffey / Guardian:

Lawyers and PR experts drill Rupert Murdoch before parliamentary grilling — NewsCorp chief is keen to salvage his reputation and come across well when he faces a televised parliamentary hearing — Rupert Murdoch, facing his first grilling from a parliamentary select committee …

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James Chapman / Daily Mail:

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

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Heather Brooke / Guardian:

Let's break up this information cartel — Britain's cosy, corrupt power elite has been fostered by a black-market trade in data — Nick Clegg was right to acknowledge on Wednesday that phone hacking is the symptom of a wider problem: the cosy, corrupt relationship between the power elites.