Course Textbook APA Citation: Stanwick, P. A., & Stanwick, S. D. (2014). Understanding business ethics (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Discussion Board.

Read Case 6: Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation, on pages 285-290, and address one of the following questions. Respond with your own thoughts to a post by another student.

1. Is it viable that Rupert Murdoch did lose sight of the operations at News of the World because his empire had gotten so large? Explain.

2. What were the pressures that influenced the breaches of privacy in this case?

3. Is phone hacking ever acceptable? What are the policy issues of the information technology framework that might have prevented this from happening?

4. Are practices such as phone hacking used frequently in the media industry? Do you agree that this is always an unethical practice in this industry? Explain.