the notion that the issues at news international are somehow indicative of our culture. this was an isolated incident. this hacking stuff, this is not how we at news corp do business. it was one little paper. the rest of us don't even recognize that behavior. it is key to rupert murdoch surviving the scandal. this is a "news of the world" problem, they'll say, not a murdoch inc. problem. only problem with that defense, oh, hello there, mr. floor ad guy. excellent media reporter for the new york times wrote today, the way news corp cleaned up this alleged hacking scandal, u.s. hacking scandal with the floor company allegedly paying large sums of money to sweep the thing under the rug, that's been the way they've been operating in mr. carr reporting that news corporation has paid out about $655 million to make embarrassing charges of corporate espionage and corporate competitive behavior go away.