What’s really been bugging Meninga and Murdoch?
Fired up … Maroons coach Mal Meninga. Photo: Getty Images
THE revelations of phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper resurrected memories for a couple of executives of the media magnate’s Super League.
When officials of the News Ltd-funded rugby league organisation reported for work one Monday morning in 1995 at their headquarters in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, they found a small group of technicians busy near their desks.
Told they were ”sweepers”, the league men surveyed the offices, considered them neat and tidy and wondered why they needed vacuuming.
But there wasn’t a Hoover in sight, although J. Edgar Hoover, the old FBI chief, would have felt comfortable in the environment.
By on 18/07/2011